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  <title><![CDATA[After Many a Summer Dies the Swan]]></title>
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  <default-description>A Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity--these are the elements of Huxley's caustic &amp; entertaining satire on the human desire to live indefinitely. A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence. --The New Yorker</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1939</original-publication-year>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books, very disturbing take on American manias and Hollywood.  Haven't read it in awhile but recommend it to anyone interested in the roots of literary science fiction or dark satire.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 10:29:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recommended by: Matt Lefebvre<br/>Like Demons by Dostoevsky or Magic Mountain by Mann, Huxley’s characters in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan personify different philosophies or outlooks on life.  In a sort of Socratic roundtable, the author, always a man of ideas is able to tease out through s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41187231">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Mar 11 22:05:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh Aldous, you started off so well in this book... then had far too many pages about religion... then went off somewhere else... then became interesting again... and now it's been months since I've been back to you. Hopefully I will finish this odd little book and hopefully it won't disappoint me  a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49001677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67497767">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Huxley's great tale of a Charles Foster Kane-type funding a fortune on beating the clock of mortality. I like these creepy tales of Hollywood in the Thirties because he did them so well. As usual apes make an appearance towards the end to close the show. Aldous did love his chimps!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm all for philosophical novels. But this one seemed tedious and dated.  A wealthy man, terrified of death, hires a scientist to search for ways of extending life.  Long-winded philosophical passages by one of the characters made me zone out periodically. 9/09]]></body>
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    <review id="58554354">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aldous Huxley had a philosophical outlook that is almost un-matched for his era.  Much of his writing is more relevant today than when he wrote it, which is really the true test of an author attempting social commentary on this level.  My head wasn't really in the &quot;best&quot; place for this boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58554354">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67074701">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a mind bender. Jo Stoyte is a rich man obsessed with escaping death. The book is filled with a lot of philosophy that is pretty deep but interesting to wade through. The book ends in a very surprising way.]]></body>
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    <review id="45925934">
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    <body><![CDATA[Once again Huxleys brilliance is evidenced.  The five page conversation between the protaganist and the groundskeeper is magic.  It melds philosophy and literature.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a prime example of dogma dictating narrative. I cannot remember at which point I started skimming through Mr. Propter's pedantic discourses.]]></body>
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    <review id="45480703">
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't finish this book. The material was too heavy to enjoy, though I do like the way Huxley writes his books. This book wasn't nearly as witty as his other satire.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All the gentle, sometimes biting humour and social observation of Huxley at near top form.]]></body>
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    <review id="38880946">
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    <body><![CDATA[actually liked it more than A Brave New World... Less than The Doors Of Perception/Heaven and Hell.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just my kind of fiction: a perfect mix of easily digested story line, philosophy, and social commentary.  Through the quest for immortality and conscious struggles to understand patriotism, love, and good will, Huxley's characters highlight greed and the inescapable ego. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[delightful]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a Huxley fan and he didn't disappoint. Great story/plot and characters. Too many obscure literary references. Written in 1939, I understood many of the references because of work.]]></body>
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    <review id="53523">
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    <body><![CDATA[This satire explores several philosophical and social issues, some of which would later take the forefront in his final novel Island, about a figure from Greek mythology to whom Zeus gave eternal life but not eternal youth. <br/>”The action revolves around a few main characters brought together b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2791971">
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    <body><![CDATA[Huxley filled numerous pages with rants of a philosophical and theological nature making for some incredibly boring reading at times. But a handful of interesting, if not lovable, characters, a decent plot and an ending that ties up all the loose ends make for an overall entertaining read.]]></body>
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    <review id="11511766">
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    <body><![CDATA[either this book is too much a product of its own time, or i'm too much a reader of mine.  the philosophizing was interesting, but bogged down the action of the story. i would have liked to have seen more <em>happen</em>.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful spoof on youth-obsessed culture, not in the least hampered (and probably aided) by a fairly far-fetched scientific plot device.  Let's just say I've never looked at carp the same way since.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good. Much better than Point Counter Point. This is a book that is ultimately funny but only in retrospect. Much love for it and perfectly willing to take the title, hence forth, of Dr. Obispo. ]]></body>
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