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      <name><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another tale of mayhem, history and the macabre from Vargas Llosa. Whereas Death in the Andes was compared to a Diane Arbus styled portrait the visual artists this book evokes is Heiryonmous Bosch or Breughal. A medieval meets the wild west landscape(turn of the century Brazil) of prophets, bandits,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17952978">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book by Mario Vargas Llosa that I read, and I am ashamed that I never attempted to read any of his books before.  Of course, as a Brazilian, I may be biased about this book, but I felt totally mesmerized by it.  It is an epic telling the story of a peasant revolt on the backlands o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12571135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33446976">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 21 13:10:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just reissued in a striking new (and slightly cheaper!) paperback edition, this novel took me utterly by surprise. It grabbed me and pushed me down and walked all over me. It gave me a deeper appreciation of what a truly great novelist really is, what he or she can do with any subject or theme he or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33446976">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue May 08 07:17:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I ought to have picked up way back when I was a teen-ager and could stomach these excessively long-winded South American novels. Don't get me wrong...I found the book sort of fascinating until about the last 150 pages. And then I realized it was just going to go on in the same circles...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1098437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23517">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was a total surprise; i picked it up on the street and was blown away. it is a fictionalized narrative of a war that occurred in southern brazil in the late 19th century. an itinerant preacher espousing his own brand of christian faith wanders southern brazil, eventually gathering thousand...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23517">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18743350">
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What an epic piece of literature!  I enjoy a tough read and this was one in the sense of density of language.  At times it moved slowly, yet overall it reminded me of the experince of reading &quot;One Hundred Years of Solitude&quot; by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.  I felt it was an accomplishment when I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18743350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50754397">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 28 17:47:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[a well-managed war epic.  it has problems (the most interesting character dies halfway through, and other structural issues forced on it by its historical accuracy) but it's a lot of fun to read and will last you until approximately the end of time.  v-l kept me in it with his intellectual engagemen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50754397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42006279">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=1136">STOP SMILING review</a> of <em>The War of the End of the World</em>:<br/><br/>The Counselor, a deathly thin saint-in-the-making, shuffles through the drought-wrought backlands of northern Brazil in the twilight of the 19th century. He accumulates a following of the wretched, the morally despicable, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42006279">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61560022">
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  <date_updated>Sun Jul 05 20:31:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Poco se sabe sobre la guerra que sostuvieron una comunidad de campesinos, lidereados por un enigmático personaje mesiánico, y el gobierno brasileño a finales del s. XIX.  La Guerra de Canudos pasa desapercibida para muchos, pues no es uno de los eventos renombrados del hervidero democrático de l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61560022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="418055">
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 25 01:04:33 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[بسیاری از آثار ماریو بارگاس یوسا به فارسی برگردانده شده است. آنها که من دیده ام: &quot;زندگی واقعی آلخاندرو مایتا&quot;/ حسن مرتضوی (ترجمه ی بدی نیست)، &quot;سال های سگی&quot;/ اح...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/418055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46397">
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    <body><![CDATA[بسیاری از آثار ماریو بارگاس یوسا به فارسی برگردانده شده است. آنها که من دیده ام: &quot;زندگی واقعی آلخاندرو مایتا&quot;/ حسن مرتضوی (ترجمه ی بدی نیست)، &quot;سال های سگی&quot;/ اح...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37564892">
    <user id="1701688">
    <name><![CDATA[Terry]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1982</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So what I thought was fascinating about this book was that Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian, chose to write the book in Portuguese in an attempt to maintain the cultural and social feel of the events portrayed. He achieved that in spades.<br/><br/>I was first introduced to the siege of Canudos and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37564892">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70423908">
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  <date_added>Mon Sep 07 19:40:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 07 19:43:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[dears,<br/><br/><br/>   I have written a book on this subject, &quot;The End of the World&quot;. This book is based on fictions. And there is a wonderful story about the end of the world by a scientist who came from other planets.<br/><br/>   Very soon , this book will be loaded on the internet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70423908">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30939512">
    <user id="249241">
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 14 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 22 17:09:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 14 19:04:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time focusing on this novel.  Maybe it was timing.  I started reading it while I was in the last throes of my Ph.D.  Or maybe it's just a difficult book.  It seemed like there was a new character introduced about every five pages, most of whom were named either João or Antônio.  Conse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30939512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24052746">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fictional account of Antonio Conselhiero, the Counselor, and how his religious and political rebellion in Canudos developed at the turn of the 20th century and was eventually crushed through mulitple military campaigns by the Brazilian army. The character development really gives a sense o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24052746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40137475">
    <user id="1798222">
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    <body><![CDATA[The politics of South America, always told in allegorical format, similar to the On Hundred Years of Solitude. I wish I had a table that related the fact to the fiction<br/>The battle scenes were sometimes repetitive and even harked back to the Alamo, the 300 Spartans and other tragic epic battles]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 10 11:22:21 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is just so horribly dull. So dull, dull, dreadfully dull. It is not at the End of the world and it is just a skirmish and it is not interesting at all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A sweeping epic similar to &quot;One Hundred Years of Solitude&quot; by Marquez.]]></body>
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