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  <title><![CDATA[Shame]]></title>
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  <default_description>In his brilliant third novel, first published in 1983, Salman Rushdie gives us a lively and colorful mixture of history, art, language, politics, and religion.  Set in a country &quot;not quite Pakistan,&quot; the story centers around the family of two men&amp;#8212;one a celebrated warrior, the other a debauched playboy&amp;#8212;engaged in a protracted duel that is played out in the political landscape of their country.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Salman Rushdie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I reread SHAME this weekend and was once again reminded why Rushdie is one of the greatest authors of our time. In Shame he addresses may levels but this last reading I focused on how he has intertwined the relationship of Shame throughout the levels of our human experience. He draws his characters ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7630707">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I always list Rushdie as one of my favorite authors of all time, it had been almost ten years since I picked up one of his books.  So when I came across Shame in 12th Street books, I decided to dive back in.<br/><br/>I loved the way that the story kept leaping ahead of itself, rushing ahe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20158299">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 22 15:35:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think Rushdie is one of the best writers of our time. He can describe a whole culture in two sentences. He provides an eye-opening glimpse into a society that is totally foreign and bewildering to me. Like &quot;Midnight's Children,&quot; this novel is populated with characters who aren't like peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47576179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12134325">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is not bad and covers a very interesting topic in a fantasy Pakistan. However the fantasy world is pushed a bit too far and many analogies are a bit too self consciously explicit. By allowing himself to detach the story so far from &quot;reality&quot; it makes the thematic aspect of the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12134325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52708101">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picking up a Rushdie book after 5 years, as I did last month, is like reading a Shakespeare play after 5 years.  It takes a few pages to re familiarize yourself with the patterns and rhythms of the prose style, to fully take advantage of the layered depths of meaning in each phrase.  When the music ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52708101">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10917464">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 04 13:50:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i finished this book the same day benazir bhutto (aka arjumand &quot;virgin ironpants&quot;, according to the observer) was assasinated, how fitting. now i am on my way to read &quot;midnight's children&quot;!]]></body>
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    <review id="442698">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the hardest books I've ever read but really really really brilliant.  Plus Rushdie's being hunted by da Islams, and he's a complete asshole to boot, which makes for a great trifecta]]></body>
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    <review id="7244810">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who love alligorical tales of Pakistani history]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quite a good book and introduction to his writing style.  His command of language and prose makes him one of the better living writers in English.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Mar 14 19:00:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Favorite lines:<br/><br/>Since my last visit to Karachi, my friend the poet had spent many months in jail, for social reasons. That is to say, he know somebody who was the wife of the second cousin by marriage of the step-uncle of somebody who might or might not have shared a flat with someone who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45199745">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are moments of brilliance here, but I seem to have little tolerance for novels that sag and sprawl. I enjoy an intricately plotted novel sometimes but Shame isn't tightly wound enough to propel me all the way through without resenting all the random points of departure and, especially, the nar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41537773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34167496">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 29 19:21:40 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 29 19:30:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really expected to dislike this work by Salman Rushdie - not having read anything by him before I was full of preconcieved notions about what his writing would be like. As it turns out, when I read this book for a class I am taking, I really *really* enjoyed it.<br/><br/>The story is about somew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34167496">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32894954">
    <user id="257120">
    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Marcos, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 14 20:53:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 08 09:44:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've loved most of the Rushdie I've read, but this one wore me a little thin.  Partly, I just lack context.  I suspect this is largely allegorical, but I have none of requisite reference points for this novel, which recounts the early history of Pakistan with flourishes of magical realism.  I picked...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32894954">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Jenny]]></name>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Pete's book club!]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Salman Rushdie's stuff, most of it, especially the earlier stuff, and this was a good page-turner with all sorts of fantastical, allegorical stuff going on.  Here's some parts I liked:<br/><br/>On writing in the English language, p 33: &quot;This word: shame.  No, I must write it in its ori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18071124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50764">
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  <date_added>Sat Feb 17 01:12:08 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[From Midnight Children on, seems that Roshdie’s preference moves tward the language rather than the narration itself. Comparing ”The ground beneath of her feet” and ”Midnight children” one comes to a more beautiful language but less interesting events.<br/><br/>در اثار رشدی ز...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7171780">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 02 17:48:11 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shame is an important, sharp book, and while I enjoyed how mythy (not a word. you know what i mean.) the stories are, it honestly took me forever to read. Maybe I don't know enough about Pakistan. Every sentence carries the world, I swear. I remember totally not getting it the first time I read it f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7171780">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42311565">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I tried...just couldn't get into it.  Myabe I will have to try again, but I get the feeling that his style is not my taste.  Very vivid descriptions, but the twist and turns within the first few pages did not enchant me like I think he intended.]]></body>
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    <review id="68476218">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alexander]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Berkeley, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was stolen before I could finish it. I was using a picture of myself holding a puppy as my bookmark. Someone was shameless enough to steal a copy of a book titled Shame, which held a photo of its rightful owner and a puppy. Sharam. Sharam. Sharam.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rushdie's ability to tell a story that burns images into your soul is like no other.  The overlapping of lives, stories, and atrocities will make your head spin until it weaves itself into a beautiful tapestry in your mind.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was off to a weirdly exhilarating start, but about 1/3 in I understood why some reviewers call it tiresome and &quot;baroque.&quot; It's very convoluted and weighty in style, despite the levity of the satire. Right now I'll pretend that at some point in the future I'll research the politic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41369725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a large book, as in it tries to accomplish much. I need to reread it in order to capture all it intricacies. It's very much in keeping with the fantastical, magical books of Marquez and Allende.]]></body>
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