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    <body><![CDATA[I have the feeling there's more than one way of looking at this book. On one hand it can be viewed as a <em>bildungsroman</em>, it follows Michael Berg since the age of 15 till full maturity. On the other hand, it's the post-war German generation coming to terms with their past, the Nazi crimes and their par...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36808908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book just fell short with me, on oh so many levels. One thing that did intrigue me and that I have not yet seen much of is the perspective of Germans after the Holocaust and their views on the Third Reich and Hitler's agenda, especially of the younger generation of that time. That was really th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17749640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a very hard time with this book.  In my opinion it's a masterpiece: a quick, unputdownable read, with stark prose, multifaceted characters, and a story I'm not likely to <em>ever</em> forget.  I highly recommend it to anyone.<br/><br/>However, I repeat:  I had a very hard time with this book. I finis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48306135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are some books you know will stay with you forever, and Bernhard Schlink's The Reader is definitely one of them. It has been highly critically acclaimed, winning the Boston Book Review's Fisk Fiction Prize, and it deserves all the praise it has received. <br/><br/>The Holocaust is a difficul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39404654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I admit it. This book sat on my shelf a while, and was almost doomed to obscurity when I found out it had been chosen as one for the club by Oprah. But once I picked it up, I whizzed through it.<br/><br/>At first, I wondered if the style of writing- distant, reserved- was a function of the transla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39763578">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first saw this book at the thrift-store months ago, I thought to myself that it had to be amazing. The cover image intrigued me, I'm interested in reading books that pertain to the Holocaust, and at only 218 pages, it's short so I felt sure that it would pack a punch. <br/><br/>The first pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29755865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In his thought-provoking exploration of <em>Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung</em> Schlink presents the reader with a number of moral conundrums as well as with compelling portraits of the two principal characters. Since the reader comes to know the characters and experience the conundrums from the point of view of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42913132">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fast read.  Germany post-WWII when they are just coming to terms with their Nazi past, &quot;the reader&quot;, a teenage boy of 15 is awakened sexually by a woman twice his age with a secret past.  Besides sex, a large part of their time together is spent with him reading literature to her. After ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39282303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't seen the movie yet, only a preview on a DVD a few weeks ago* (which reminded me I had the book on my shelf), but I have to say: while reading this I kept thinking <em>God</em> this would make a great film! And Kate Winslet would be <em>great</em> as Hanna! I like to think that if the movie hadn't already be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47820355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was intrigued with the concept of a book about a Nazi camp worker surviving the war, becoming a productive citizen, then facing the consequences later. In my history studies I wondered about those people who worked in Nazi Germany, people like Hanna, those who were at heart &quot;good&quot; people...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44807031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll start my review by telling you that I have not seen the movie based on this book - I thought I wanted to, but now I don't really see the appeal.<br/><br/>15 year-old Michael Berg becomes ill on his way home from school one day and is rescued by Hanna Schmitz, a streetcar conductor more than t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33262872">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me more then one try to get into this one but once i made it past the first sex scene i was hooked.  This story begins with an affair between a fifteen year old boy and a thirty something year old women and then doubles back to matters more serious and complex.  If I knew this book was about...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23090449">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This lady who sells books gave me a copy of this yesterday and it's a super fast and mostly good read . . . the lady said she hated it and it was one of the stupidest books she's ever read, which, I don't know, I didn't feel that way.  But now I want to read reviews to see what the hell, coz I thoug...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53959195">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book starts out sweet and romantic, but the narrator/main character remeinds me of the spinless kid in the frustratingly-hair-pulling movie, Malena, which starred sumptuous Italian film star, Monica Belluci. <br/>In The Reader, the reader (that would be you, if you read it), particularly if yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30676570">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a haunting book. At first I didn't think I'd like this novel, fresh on the heels of my reading Zusak's lyrical, tightly constructed flow (The Book Thief). This novel has a lot more exposition, which suits its more philosophical purpose. I now have a reading hangover, because I started one night...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44770676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of the women in my book club could tell you that I never rule out a story because of its lack of a happy ending.  I still felt betrayed by <em>The Reader</em> even though I understand Schlink's attempt at poetic justice.<br/><br/>I found myself understanding Hanna's attraction of the weaker child, Mic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50123333">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a general rule, I consider the word “erotic” in any book publicist lingo a euphemism for soft porn, so when I perused the description of  Bernhard Schlink’s novel I wasn’t sure if it would be worth bothering with despite its intriguing (to a booklady such as myself) title.  The first half...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57819509">more...</a>]]></body>
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