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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed his other novels more, but Portis' comic genius is still evident here.  Here's a quotation from the book.  &quot;He&quot; refers to Norwood, the main character.  Lines like, &quot;No, but he can blow out a match&quot; make me laugh out loud.<br/><br/>...when he awoke he struck up a conve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48071086">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Deze bescheiden cultklassieker uit 1966 stond al even op het leeslijstje. Portis (°1933) schreef slechts vijf romans, waarvan Norwood de eerste is. Het is door en door Amerikaans, onderscheidt zich door z’n aparte, wat absurde humor en nadruk op gesproken Engels. Dat typisch Amerikaanse manifeste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56201583">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 really. Cute. Quirky. Parsimonious comedic storytelling -- Portis has an ear for colloquial dialogue and an eye for setting a scene in a few telling details. But for me there wasn't enough meat on this novel to make it essential reading. As someone else points out, Norwood Pratt often reminded m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54597733">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled across this book through...well, through GoodReads while reading an email list of books that GoodReads friends recommend.  (So, thanks, to someone out there who directed me to a great read!) I loved reading Norwood's misadventures <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road" title="The Road by Cormac McCarthy">on the road</a> from Ralph, Texas to NYC to collect the $70 ow...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23892382">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There is a species of wit that is equal to grace; Portis achieves that here. <em> Norwood </em> also counts among its charms the ability to frustrate the mechanical accumulation of events that many novels deploy as plot; instead, you get a true narrative, an unfolding of character through time. And it is a f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68874615">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This first effort by Charles Portis has been praised as a great road novel. I read it looking for the off-beat content it has been granted, but was a bit dissatisfied. Although the characters are unique and off-beat, they don't come across as fully formed or well-mined by the author, and then the bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78054918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Norwood gets out of the army to take care of his sister only to hate the man she marries. Then he starts driving a stolen car to NYC, loses the car, finds his friend, finds a wife, and rescues the smartest chicken in the world. Excellent.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My second favorite Portis, once again containing giddy travel and even giddier inscrutable humans.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[an amazingly funny book. Portis is a genius.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Just read it.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[wow!!!! super funny, kinda like the coen bros.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a seriously wonky quest novel, as titular Norwood leaves Texas for NYC to claim an unpaid debt (a whopping $70--which tells you almost everything you need to know about Norwood, right there). Stolen cars, hobos covered in flour, and misadventures in automats abound. Norwood just wants to be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21927355">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me laugh out loud (at some of Portis descriptions).  I loved the dialog.  And most of all it made me realize just how much there's an 'in' style of writing.  This book moves over months, it's short (around 200 pages), and it works.  It was a great way to study narrative... I am defini...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12848836">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A little gem, I think. Should have made a bigger splash in 1966 -- time was right and the tone was really very good for that time.  Maybe it was a little ahead of its time.  Think a movie was made of it (Glen Campbell?).  (Later: imdb [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066162/]]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books.  Portis's narrative style is uncomplicated, yet the emotions and situations he describes are complex and memorable.  I can't come up with sufficient words for the way this book makes me feel without resorting to cliches. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to an audio version of this book.  I'm a big fan of Portis's novel True Grit, so I had high hopes for this one, but those hopes were dashed.  It's sort of Gomer Pyle goes to New York, finds love on public transportation.  Thumbs down.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Vintage Arkansas deadpan. Veers into Werner Herzog/Harmony Korine territory when Norwood boards a Memphis-bound bus with a midget and a chicken. Not as great as Dog Of The South, but not much is. Portis is a genius.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[People I know call this book &quot;Snorewood&quot; because they think it is hideously boring. It's actually not that bad and the main character goes on a road trip with a chicken, which is pretty awesome.]]></body>
    
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