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    <body><![CDATA[I came in expecting to like this set of short stories much more easily. I grew impatient with her wavering voice, but the stories stuck with me, whether I liked the way they were told or not.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off, Nadine Gordimer is an incredible writer.  One of the most amazing linguistic architects I have read in some time.  Her sentences, if you can call them that, traipse, meander, drive, flit, curve, circle, dead-end and serpentine in so many different directions in only a line or two.  An ama...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30045218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm listening to this book on CD and I'm not really sure what's going on.  The title story was fine.  Then there was a story about a tapeworm, that was gross.  Then one about Susan Sontag and some other people at a Chinese restaurant.  Now I'm on another one that's fine.  But even in those ones I'm ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55956799">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mixed-bag, but then again, Ms. Gordimer is 80 something years old now and can afford to write something a bit uneven. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories with interesting premises.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book obtuse and boring. Very disappointing since I was looking forward to my read from N. Gordimer. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the story about the tapeworm entitled &quot;tape measure&quot;. I thought she had real mastery over the point-of-view (as odd a point-of-view as it was).<br/>She varies her style with each story and this gives the collection texture. However, it was not always easy to get through. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite story in this collection was the one told in voice of the tapeworm, who indignantly realizes that its host is trying to poison it.  Gordimer's style is very dry, though, and unless you have a special interest in South Africa, her work might be hard to swallow.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was disappointed that a collection of short stories with such an intriguing title was so boring.  I read a couple, tried a few others, but they did not appeal to me at all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[nice to see the nobel hasn't gone to her head.  still trying new ideas--tapeworm doesn't work, but chinese restaurant with s. sontag, a. sampson e. said, does, as does title story and &quot;alternative endings.&quot;  good stuff, often better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My terrific brother-in-law Ned hooks me up with great books every year for Christmas.  This book was this year's present.  I've read a couple of stories and am really looking to read more soon.]]></body>
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