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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time finishing this book, because the ending was so good that I couldn't stop crying. Not because it was sad, but because it was so unbelievably good, and because I'd never before read a long book with an ending that lived up to its heft.<br/><br/>Seriously, it took me like half an ho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6804667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every once in a while you'll get into one of those conversations with an acquaintance who thinks he or she is smarter than you in which you list a string of books you've read recently and authors you particularly enjoy. Invariably Michael Chabon's last name (shay-bawn) is mispronounced in these conv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1021061">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Time of Our Singing</em> follows the musical career of one brother as told by another. It's a family drama spread over many decades from the marriage of the boy's parents (a German Jew and a black women who met while singing) and goes up to present day.<br/><br/>I liked the premise of the story and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1782987">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My 'best read' of 2008 - and in my top ten of all time. The writing is wonderful, capturing something that is very difficult to  write about well, namely the beauty of the human voice when singing classical music. Powers does this not once but many times in the book. <br/><br/>I thought I was well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52755655">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At first I was felt that Powers was too wordy.  Not my preferred style of less is more.  Then by the time I was at page 200 the plot just swelled up and took me in.  By 300 I couldn't let this family go.  There was a magic about it, the images, the back and forth of perspectives. Until 550 I thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44456526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was unlike any I'd ever read, and has left me unsure of how to discuss it!  I picked it up off someone's stoop because I'd heard of the author, then read that it involved a family over generations (something I love), as well as the family's relationship to music (one of my main loves).  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61175307">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book tackles family, race, music, the sense of belonging, the tumultous issue of race in the middle of the century - and has some of the most beautiful language I've ever read.  It's long but it's worth it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[EDITED<br/><br/>How gorgeous can a thing be? is my first question. Powers has this elegance I've never seen in fiction before, this way of caring and knowing about his subjects (I've read a third of his catalog and so far his subjects have been: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27543.Artificial_Intelligence_A_Modern_Approach_2nd_Edition_" title="Artificial Intelligence  A Modern Approach (2nd Edition) by Stuart J. Russell">artificial intelligence</a>, photography, WWI, WWII, eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45895927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have mixed feelings about this book. This is the first Richard Powers book I have read. On the one hand, I thought Mr. Powers' use of language, descriptions, characterizations were great. I thought his portrayals of historical events such as the Emmett Till murder were incredibly well done and dee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60733439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Je zou het misschien niet zeggen op basis van wat ik de voorbije periode gelezen heb, maar ik hou ook van schrijvers met bagage en ambitie, van schrijvers die op de proppen kunnen én durven komen met fictieve werelden die alles op z’n kop zetten, en dat in provocerende, wervelende of uitputtende ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35447582">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[anyone who loves music will appreciate this book.  I found it a little difficult to get into at first, but really enjoyed it. it starts with the unlikely love story between a priviledged young black woman (whose father expects her to be a doctor) and a german inventor who meet at the washington monu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27903749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Un Pavé! J'avais demandé à maman de m'amener de gros livres (vu la vitesse à laquelle je lis en ce moment) et ben celui là il est gros! Et bien!<br/>Difficile d'expliquer l'histoire parcequ'elle n'est pas chronologique. Mais on découvre la vie d'une famille sur plusieurs génération. Une fam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26507553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Important Service Announcement:<br/><br/>I read the first 100 or something pags of this yesterday and decided not to continue. <br/>*does not panic*<br/>*breathes*<br/><br/>Yes, I can start a book and not finish it! It hasn't happened very often, in fact, I can't remember that it ever happened...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26452913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the story of race through the lives of a mixed race family who attempted to rise above the realities of discrimination and more through music was beautifully written.  At times the main narrator, the younger of the two brothers, gets stuck in his life and those parts of the book are difficult becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53885914">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a hard book to read.  It was about a mixed marriage in the mid 1940s - a white German father and a black American mother who had three children, two boys and a girl.  They were all musically oriented (and there is a lot of writing about music, most of which I didn't understand).  The parent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37689901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an amazing novel by Richard Powers. an ambitious generational tale of an American family with a mixed heritage of African-American and German Jew, and covers the travails, triumphs and tragedies of this family. There are three children, one with a beautiful singing voice who opts for a class...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19059039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[while reading it...<br/>This book is toying with me... drawing me in, yet making me struggle. Powers' way with words is awe-inspiring but he loves his tangents. When he returns to the struggles, emotions and experiences of his characters he astonishes me with his insight and blending of history wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76905081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought I would never finish this book.  It has over 600 pages but beyond that it is not a &quot;fast read.&quot;  The storyline and ideas in the book are interesting, but the book moves along slowly, and each sentence seems over written.  A good portion of the book is devoted to music terms and r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14813072">more...</a>]]></body>
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