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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should preface this review with a disclaimer that I both love Jose Saramago and magical realism.  Adore both, actually.  Do not judge my nerdiness.  I will loudly and proudly shout to the line behind me at the book store that I cannot wait to read about a magical mountain range.  And when the mana...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3767316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I figured out the inevitable ending of this book about halfway through it, but getting to the end was certainly not tedious .  The language (lyrically translated by Margaret Costa) is full of unusual but vivid imagery (&quot;...she had noticed a kind of embarassed catch in his voice, a disharmony th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6733883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This guy's paragraphs stretch on for pages.  And there's something Cormackian about his translator's disregard of quotation marks. This is the story of <em>Jose A</em> and <em>Jose B</em>, facial hair and frailty.  <br/><br/>I hope this is a comedy, because I'm just not buying the existential horror of seeing someb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10280559">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's possible something got lost in translation, but this book struck me as one of those texts that critics go ga-ga over because it's a slightly humorous diatribe that reassures their ideals (Words define the way we think about, you know, everything!  Characters in stories aren't actually real; the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25478608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is great: Saramago takes an incredibly simple and very well established literary theme and works it out at the level of narrative in a nearly mathematical way.   The story is really a painstaking exhaustion of each possible movement and action.  And Saramago theorizes it really well as he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1687226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[جملاتی از کتاب که می تواند پیامی را در بر داشته باشد:<br/>توافق همیشه به معنای پذیرش دلیل نیست، بعضی مواقع به عنوان چتر و سایه بانی توسط افراد استفاده می شود.<br/>فراموش ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60388920">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I quite like Jose Saramago's ideas and story lines, but I find some of his novels very difficult to get through. This being one of them. The first 150-200 pages were hard work, the author tends to overcontemplate, side track his thoughts and expand on the simpliest of things. The last 100 pages or s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8448121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As always, Saramago is virtuosic and inventive, but this book is slightly less than perfect.  And while it would be absurd to hold another author to so high a standard, this one has at least two utterly perfect novels under his belt.<br/><br/>In any event, this book contains a great deal of dinner...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4763788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Double</em> is a witty and humorous work on identity and human nature.  Saramago's ability to capture our imagination with his unusual themes demonstrates his versatility as one of the greatest writers living today.  In addition, his prose is replete with elegant phrasing; he has created his own idio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60754268">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p><em>The Double</em> received decidedly mixed reviews. Certain critics applaud the urgency with which Saramago questions the nature of identity in our current age and the &quot;what if&quot; scenario. Others believe that Shakespeare, Dumas, and Nabokov have more effectively employed the twin construct. No one...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459782">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Há já muito tempo que queria ler alguma das obras de Saramago e enfim lá consegui!<br/>Não foi fácil, iniciei a leitura várias vezes até conseguir entrar na história, mas depois de me habituar ao discurso a leitura correu melhor.<br/>Fez-me um pouco de confusão a pontuação e a forma de ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38450576">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me and I'm glad I got a chance to read it because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Saramago writes as a stream of consciousness where one sentence can last a half or even most of a page, with lots of commas and no quotations (and this has nothing to do with the translation from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55898797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[INFURIATING.<br/><br/>Incredibly hard to read! This was a self-inflicted punishment by an insipid reader trying to introduce himself to a compulsively revolting writer!<br/><br/>Saramago, who is, like his name suggests, a &quot;mago&quot;, or wizard, SINGLEHANDEDLY diminishes the joy that readin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57614251">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Im torn about how to rate this book.  I'm not sure I love it, but I must admit that it was amazing (in a good way).  The book focuses on the question of identity, and what it means, but it meanders across questions of our relationships with each other, and with common sense, how the ideas of acquain...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63409711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sigue siendo un Saramago, es decir, esta bien escrito, tiene una buena idea, sencilla y bien desarrollada, exprimida con inteligencia hasta casi las ultimas gotas.<br/>Aun asi no me parece de lo mejor de este escritor. Es una novela sobria, interesante, no particularmente atrapante, pero si llevade...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45273404">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Saramago, the man is genius...the Double might be the most enjoyable novel I've read so far from this esteemed writer. It concerns the routine life of Tertuliano, a middle school history teacher, divorced but now in a relationship that he takes for granted. One day during a bout of depression he is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48442729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Saramago's premises are superb. His &quot;what if, what then&quot; can lead you to very strange places in the human experience.In this case, a man who stumbles on his double and deciding to switch identity.Its been played before in The Prince &amp; the Pauper and The Comedy of Errors and so on, but thos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40215275">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considero José Saramago um dos meus autores nacionais favoritos mas, na minha opinião, &quot;O Homem Duplicado&quot; é um dos livros menos bem conseguidos do autor. Está lá tudo o que é característico nos livros deste prémio Nobel, mas não penso que chegue para o transformar num grande livr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46572945">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still unsure what I think of this book.  At times I think it was rather simple and slow...but there were details and underlying themes that come to me at odd points as I'm going through my day.  I really can't give any details of the story because it's best to know nothing about it going in.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37959271">more...</a>]]></body>
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