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    <body><![CDATA[<blockquote>&quot;Oh, Lord! that fat men should be so thin-skinned, and suffer in pure sympathy on others' account.  A thin-skinned thin man, he don't suffer so, because there ain't so much stuff in him for his thin skin to cover.&quot;</blockquote><br/><br/>SPOILERS FOLLOW!!!!<br/>Ok. MAN! Having finished about 12 hours...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58214535">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the country then Nature planted our Pierre; because Nature intended a rare and original development in Pierre.  Never mind if hereby she proved ambiguous to him in the end; nevertheless, in the beginning she did bravely.  She blew her wind-clarion from the blue hills, and Pierre neighed out lyric...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39214820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did I really give this book a five star rating?!?  It's hard to believe, but by the time I reached the end of this very strange book, I decided that I really liked it.  Even though I made fun of the overwrought language and strange plot, I've come to the conclusion that it is a very good piece of li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57864104">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know that I'll sound like I'm swiping at a giant for the thrill of it, but when I read <em>Pierre</em> I thought that a lot of Melville's prose was just terrible. Reading <em>Moby Dick</em> a bit later on and becoming acquainted with Melville's sensibility in a more palatable setting helped me to better understand ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9628585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite things about Melville is the complicated attitude his narrators have towards their subjects--often I come to the end of his novels and feel that the narrator has been just messing with me this whole time. This book was no exception--complex and dotty at times, but so incredibly sm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54884745">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Melville writes about incest. Then he writes about the publishing industry. Then he writes some more about incest. The spiritual vs. the material: that just about says it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange book. Melville must've been pretty fucking jaded by the time he got to writing it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Odd book...the rejected follow-up to Moby Dick, this edition had illustrations from Maurice Sendak.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville (1996)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this is one of the worst books I've read. I'm hoping the last bit pulls through because this is making me despise Melville...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A proto-modernist mindfuck unlike anything else in the 19th Century canon. Like a Miyazaki film come to life, but with all sorts of (well, the word you'll see used most often is incest, but it's more complicated than that). I can't say I put it up there with Moby, but it's a crucial window into Melv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8818392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of work went into reading this one... too much work, to be sure.  I really like the other novels I've read by Melville but he really over-shot the mark on this one.  In tribute to his over-use of metaphors, I equate his approach to writing this story as trying to give a haircut with a lawnmowe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1937900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vastly under-read and rarely very appreciated, this is one of Melville's best novels. While the outer trappings of the novel suggest a Gothic Romance, Melville is merely using the genre as a means of delving into his own insecurities about publication, confidence and the unknown. Read it, but read i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18662294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started off terribly. It seemed like Mister Melville was earnestly trying to write the chick-lit of the day. Then his weirdness kicks in and it becomes a terrific novel with all the subtle jokes and writing quirks that a lover of Moby-Dick or Bartleby the Scrivener would expect.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lest you think I put all my books as high stars, I added this one.  I don't know that this is the worst book ever written, but it is most definitely the worst book I've ever read.  It made Moby Dick look good, and that takes effort.]]></body>
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