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    <body><![CDATA[way too broad, with too many variables, and to absolutely no purpose, i spend much time creating my own right-to-exist list for modern civilization. crassness and crudity aside, can anything justify the horrors we've inflicted on the globe, on one another, on the animals? doubt it. but nobody is bet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80284210">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A work of genius, and in my opinion, the best from this author. It's not an easy read, but on the second or third read-through it yields treasures that have permanently inflected my ways of seeing the world and the people in it, of telling stories, and of finding voice. Most of my students hated it,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6820428">more...</a>]]></body>
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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/46403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've long been a fan of Mario Vargas Llosa, and this book confirmed for me what stature he has as a writer.  It's a novel with two voices; utterly separate, utterly distinct and one so 'other' that the reader never doubts that s/he is immersed in a culture totally alien to his/her experience.  It's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2218898">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Mario Vargas Llosa's <u>The Storyteller</u><br/>Wk.38; Bk.38<br/><br/>Deep down, I am conflicted by books such as this one. What is it considered? Fiction? Historical fiction? Non-fiction? Folklore?<br/><br/>Llosa speaks with such authority on the subject matter.<br/><br/>The Storyteller docum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41947245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow; this is a novel that is working on a sooo many levels. Vargas Llosa explores important, eye-opening issues within ethnography. It's disturbing as all get-out because he makes me question the ethics of my field of study. <br/><br/>Though the writing is beautiful, it is hard to follow who's doing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50883377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A story within a story about a culture that is failing and a man that refuses to see it fall.  I loved the ancient peruvian creation story but felt that the background story line got lost in translation (originally written in Spanish)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only thing I really remember about this book is that it featured a giant penis and something about a bee sting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I may have appreciated this book more, but, felt much was lost in translation.  Having traveled in Peru, many of the mystical and colorful details were able to be appreciated.  I did not feel the reading flowed well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[جالبه ؛چند سال قبل وقتی اومدم این کتابو بخونم بعد ازچند صفحه احساس کردم خسته کننده است و جذابیتی نداره و همونطور نصفه ول کردم خوندنشو. ولی امروز که دوباره گرفتم دستم ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43896768">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is an unexpected one from a novelist. The telling is confusing at first, as it wanders through the jungle. Then we realize there is ethnography and praise of a fading culture here. Ultimately, we understand that Vargas is celebrating the immemorial central role of the story-teller as histo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7067500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A strange book about culture and mysticism in the jungles of South America.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A magnificent, if flawed, novel that explores the rape of the environment, the fate of the outsider, the primal rhapsodic nature of man, all with a bit of humor and general social commentary. Most remarkable, if toughest to really grasp on the first reading, are the passages from the storyteller him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18169730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[super great perspective on the amazon and 'development']]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cool concept, but not MVL's best delivery.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel did not capture me from page 1, but gradually I found myself more and more intrigued by where it was leading me. At times anywhere from bizarre to poignant, it asks vital questions about what it means to tell stories of any form. It also asks compelling questions about distinct culture in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35637246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent story.  The book weaves together the narrator's memories of a college friend and the mythology of the Machiguengas, an Amazonian tribe. I loved the lyrical style of the mythology sections and the myths themselves.  In this tribe, when something bad happens, they just move on (keep walking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15258015">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had to read it over five times to like it, but once you get into it, it's pretty good. I just wish MVL was a little less tell-y. He'll often show us one thing, then tell us what it means right afterwards, and tell us again later on just to make sure we get it. It dampened a couple parts for me - e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14413420">more...</a>]]></body>
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