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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Transparent Things</em> is an EP remix of elements from <em>Pale Fire</em>, <em>Lolita</em>.  Love, murder.  <br/><br/>Tracks include:<br/><br/>1. Moby's Love Remix<br/>2. Orbital's Murder Remix<br/>3. NIN's Memory Mix<br/>4. Angelo Badalementi's Dream Mix (vocals by Julee Cruise)<br/><br/>European version includ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7257388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reminiscent of his better-known &quot;Pnin,&quot; Vladimir Nabokov's 1972 short novel &quot;Transparent Things&quot; is, like much of Nabokov's writing, full of humorous wordplay, back-and-forth movements in time, unreliable narration, and mockery of its characters. (Much of this book's humor comes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66431860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love Nabokov. For someone whose first language is not English, this man writes some truly beautiful words. Possibly some of the most beautiful phrases I have ever read. Transparent Things is a book that has a lot of interesting ideas going on, specifically about what goes on beneath the surface and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77536191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I first started this book I suspected it was going to be a triumph of form over content. I'm not sure that either won out in the end. It is an odd book but odd is good. The story in itself is not especially odd, nor is it particularly exciting; the story, the who did what to whom, is the least ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8553123">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should probably take a break from Nabokov, because I think I'm starting to take the incredible quality of his writing for granted. This was the easiest, and shortest, work of his that I've read. I think Nabokov liked his main character while knowing that the reader wouldn't, and there's no really ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45107787">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven’t been able to complete a book in a while, so I picked up several novellas from the library that I had a mild interest in. Well, at least for this, it’s a cleverly written little book with a dash of postmodernism, but it can’t really escape its own boredom. No clear time period is give...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56820153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Nabokov.  I decided to start with a less famous one because it was shorter and I didn't already know the story.  <br/><br/>Transparent Things isn't a terribly interesting tale, but the author's descriptive skills are powerful, and they bring the characters to life through the anac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30827870">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Nabokov wasn't NABOKOV by the time he sent this to his agent, then I doubt it would have been published. I hardly knew the characters and felt very little about their circumstances. Still, there are passages of gorgeous crystalline prose and fascinating ideas that hint of his genius.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hugh Person is a rather clumsy young man.  He works for a publisher and in the course of his job meets some interesting people, one of which becomes his wife - Armande.  But happily ever after was not in the cards for them.<br/><br/>Very sad and poetic]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Nabokov. I read this book twice in a row because the first time I missed half of the innuendoes. Customary to his writing, it is a book within a book within a book. A literal hall of mirrors with funny perversions throughout.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rarely does a book make me feel so dumb that I get depressed.  Congratulations Mr Nabokov, you have succeeded where others have failed.<br/><br/>The language you use is beautiful - too bad I didn't understand the story, at all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nabokov's masterful prose condensed and concentrated. Transparent Things is sad and beautiful in every page and in its exploration of the past behind every Person and object, its pull, the revisions we make to it, and the mystery of the future. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's nabokov. he's brilliant. 3 stars for the storyline.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The ending is fantastic, but the build-up to it doesn't quite come off.  I'm a lover of all things Nabokov, but he sometimes loses me when he tries to get metaphysical.  It's probably a testament to my devotion that I give four start to this flawed but fascinating little novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Murderous, delectable, multiple. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very clever tale about a middle aged man who believes in order for a future to exist one must not dwell on material objects, nor exist in the past and yet while avoiding his past, Person, seeks it out even when the memories of it cause great anguish.  Nabokov, an exquisite writer, leads the reader...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27044983">more...</a>]]></body>
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