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  <title><![CDATA[A Clean Well Lighted Place (Short Stories)]]></title>
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  <default_description>As a Spanish caf&#226;e closes for the night, two waiters and a lonely customer confront the concept of nothingness.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1990</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A Clean, Well Lighted Place&quot; is the absolute best short story of all time.  I know, that's a big statement but I really believe it.  It's one of the most heartbreaking, intimate stories I've ever read and it captures a lifetime of humility, loneliness, and our ability as humans to be both...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22196962">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 27 14:11:17 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 27 14:34:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[May be I am one of those <em>otro loco</em>s but I think different aspects of the human nature are very well reflected in this very interesting short story. Despite a few shortcomings, there are lots, each deserving of a due attention. The asserted fact that the young waiter <em>did not wish to be unjust. He was...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38766380">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 12 19:14:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 12 21:09:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, confession, I don't actually have this book - but I did read Clean Well Lighted Place in college and have it in an anthology in Colorado - so it counts, right?<br/><br/><br/>Clean Well Lighted Place is the first Hemingway piece I read and I fell in love with how Hemingway tells a story. The s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1905223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52628314">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1984</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Apr 14 08:04:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is another amazing story. Here we have an older blind man who likes to sit alone at night in a cafe and have a few drinks. Two of the waiters at the cafe like to talk to each other about him. Two profoundly different ways of responding to the older man are presented in the waiters. ]]></body>
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    <review id="69833637">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Sep 02 13:04:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first piece of writing by Hemingway I've ever read (I just found it online).  <em>The Sun Also Rises</em> is something I think I'll pick up at some point.  I don't know how I made it this far without reading any Hemingway, but I did.]]></body>
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    <review id="52198581">
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  <date_added>Fri Apr 10 10:27:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 10 10:29:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ernest Hemingway is a master of the short story. He included so much symbolism in his writing, and in his own words, he compared the short story to an iceberg, where 90% of the meaning was buried beneath the surface. ]]></body>
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    <review id="53788605">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 23 20:32:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short and to the point. Interesting writing style, a lot left up to the reader.]]></body>
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    <review id="43822424">
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hemingway is not my favorite--I know, I know.  Shame on me.]]></body>
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    <review id="50395292">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my favorite Hemingway short story.]]></body>
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    <review id="61061945">
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favorite short stories.]]></body>
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    <review id="43124365">
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd read it forever]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 22 13:31:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I guess I just don't really get short stories...their &quot;meaning&quot; but more specifically, their appeal.  They often seem a bit pretentious, uninvolving, very little character and story development.  So I don't really see the point.  That being said, the writing was pretty.  And it was short. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27977058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28301055">
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    <name><![CDATA[Charlane]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 25 15:44:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Clean Well Lighted Place is my favorite short story of all. <br/><br/>I often think about this story when I am in European cafes at night....nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. <br/><br/>Ernest Hemingway is my favorite author. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="19599795">
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    <name><![CDATA[Emily]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 06 17:34:16 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really love A Clean Well Lighted Place. I haven't read much of his other short stories.]]></body>
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    <review id="26185510">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite Hemingway short stories. Definitely worth a quick read.]]></body>
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    <review id="27213818">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  You understand these characters in such a short prose...mad skillz H ; )]]></body>
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    <review id="33543129">
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite from Hemingway. ever.]]></body>
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    <review id="38160378">
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    <body><![CDATA[Best short story ever.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sad mostly.]]></body>
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