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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, let's be honest, the only reason this book isn't getting a D is because the language was very beautiful... most of the time. It was beautiful when it wasn't beating me over the head with the whole, &quot;Look how eloquently I can write and use big words and sound smart! Don't you feel smart ju...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1521042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first read this book, I loved it. But as I spent time thinking about it, I found myself liking the novel less and less. Finally I went back and re-read it, and on the second reading I truly disliked it. Partly, things that had seemed profound or beautiful looked much more flimsy on second gla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4841407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a little ashamed to admit that I read this book because Oprah told me to.<br/><br/>Actually Oprah, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore and Nicole Kidman told me to.<br/><br/>It must have been a Thursday or Friday afternoon because those were the days off the last time I had a job for which I worked...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18940011">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT!  I loved loved LOVED this book!  Every word, every page….  Fantastic writing, intricate structure, amazing insights.  I have LOADS of passages earmarked.  This is definitely a must-read-again (and again and again and again!).  I *never* cry when I read books – th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12227122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i kind of wonder what would have happened if this hadn't been my first cunningham. i didn't like any of his other books anywhere near as much (i full on hated <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Specimen Days" title=" Specimen Days"> Specimen Days</a>). but this, somehow, i think it has to do with the way he manages to write virginia in a way that seems pretty true, that won ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2036111">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not usually crazy about book characters to whom I can't relate, but MY GOD! the prose is magnificent. Sometimes I felt like Cunningham was just showing off, but I would too if I could write like this: <br/><br/>&quot;It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometime...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47281339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could've rated this 0 stars. It is the hope-less story about three women living in different eras who are unhappy with their lives. Even though they each have significant resources (money, friendship, family, intelligence), they focus on the deficits and let those envelope their lives. Suic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16280252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A gripping story about 3 woman in different time periods each unhappy with their lives. This is easily my all time favorite book for the beauty, the prose, the connections and the storylines. Simply wonderful. A novel to aspire towards.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Be warned: he drops the F-bomb 3 times. Also, I went into it knowing that every character was gay or had serious mental health issues, or both. It helped me to know that beforehand. Also, I understood that the entire book was based on Virginia Woolfe's &quot;Mrs. Dalloway&quot; and I was okay with t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46876216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several years ago I had the fortune of watching the film adaptation of <em>The Hours</em>, which quite blew me away. I'm not sure why it then took me so long to read the book on which the film was based, but I'm glad I did, as it's just beautiful. <br/><br/><em>The Hours</em> is both a tribute to and an update of V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15572171">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.caravan.ir/BookDetails.aspx?BookId=62&CategoryId=2">به نقل از سایت کتاب انتشارات کاروان</a> <br/>ساعت ها، هم بزرگداشت ویریجینیا وولف است و هم مخلوق خود. در این کتاب، مایکل کانینگهام به قهرمان ادبی خود زندگی می بخشد، و در کنا...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9423570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mrs Dalloway is a masterpiece. This book is nothing more than middling fan fiction. The fact that my copy of Mrs Dalloway has printed on it, emblazoned in a little star on the cover, the words &quot;the book that inspired The Hours!&quot;... yeah, it makes me want to barf down my shirt a little bit....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52934426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished this a little bit ago.  I try to resist reading pop literature, but I liked this movie a lot and it DID win the Pulitzer.  The book is almost exactly like the movie--I can't think of a single left out scene or any point that was made clearer in the reading of the book.  Cunningham's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13236571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[lush.  voluptuous prose.  can't help caring for these characters.  learned the word &quot;prolix.&quot;  favorite paragraph:<br/><br/>&quot;It had seemed like the beginning of happiness, and Clarissa is still sometimes shocked, more than thirty years later, to realize that it <em>was</em> happiness; that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thumb down! It seems that writer is only aware of one point: Woolf wrote Mrs. Dalloway. It seems that she is not the great writer of ORLANDO, A ROOM OF HER OWN, etc.<br/>This one-dimensional portrayal of a free spirit is not only disappointing, but also depressing. And it leads to a disastrous resu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/634263">more...</a>]]></body>
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