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  <title><![CDATA[Aura]]></title>
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  <default_description>A young mans narration to himself of amorous adventures in the past. There is love and passion, but the theme is more than amorous adventures. The theme includes the struggle against oblivion and death and the desire to prolong moments of splendor and beauty. Aura is a beautiful, profound, and disturbing story.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Carlos Fuentes]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 28 11:02:58 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 28 11:37:39 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Esta “novella” de Carlos Fuentes parece ser una clásica y no es muy larga (~72 paginas). La leí en una noche por leerla, más que por haber estado realmente picada, porque me parece que sigue a su género demasiado de cerca, tan de cerca que es casi totalmente previsible. Al leerla me recordó...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44653002">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Winnetka, IL]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Anyone who likes David Lynch films]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, that one was straight out of David Lynch’s diseased imaginings. It was kind of like a beautiful nightmare, complete with some pretty gnarly animal cruelty and weird voodoo magic. I totally imagined this book in stark black and white, with only Aura’s robe standing out bright green. I also f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1877365">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72038721">
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    <name><![CDATA[Timmy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 21 15:51:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 27 22:03:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creepy and frightening? Reminiscent of Poe? On a pendulum with Poe on one end and your favorite Stephen King ordeal on the other, I'd put Aura somewhere in the middle----which is to say, putting it on par with Poe is like comparing cherries to persimmons. The levels of tension and writing are not eq...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72038721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23644402">
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 04 21:29:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You could probably read this book in an hour. A bizarre love story told in second person. You/Felipe get hired to ghost-write the ending of a man's memoirs by the man's 109-year-old widow. Her house is almost completely pitch-black inside, and her niece, Aura, lives with her. You/Felipe (the protago...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23644402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19238782">
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 01 16:39:23 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Apr 04 07:11:09 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow. <br/><br/>quite terrifying. but beautiful. <br/> <br/><br/>although at first it felt like i was reading a &quot;choose your own adventure&quot; novel... <br/><br/>...the second person narration was absolutely hypnotic.]]></body>
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    <review id="72887477">
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 29 08:59:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 29 09:13:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[گابريل گارسيا ماركز مي گويد:پاريسي ها با سپاه آينه هاشان اين پندار را به وجود مي آورند كه آپارتمان هاي كوچكشان دو برابر اندازه واقعي است .اما جادوي واقعي اين است كه آن...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72887477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38453185">
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 09:56:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 23 10:01:13 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[زنی پیر مردی جوان و زنی جوان در خانه ای که همه چیز در ان بوی گذشته می دهد و گویی تنها نیرویی که ان را بر پا نگه داشته یادها و نفس ها و عطرهای گذشته است اما در این میان چیز...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38453185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60341830">
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    <location><![CDATA[Mexico]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 19 15:41:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Nov 18 09:38:01 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[An unemployed and intellectual young man, Felipe Montero, finds a job which fulfills his economic needs: an old widow is looking for someone to transcript, make grammar corrections and edit the diaries of her late husband, a military man. Felipe moves to the widow's mansion to live there for a while...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60341830">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73655418">
    <user id="2018419">
    <name><![CDATA[Berenice]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hayward, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 06 13:29:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 06 13:31:49 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Este fue uno de los primeros libros que lei por opción propia durante mi adolescencia. Recuerdo empezar a leerlo por curiosidad y no haberlo soltado hasta q lo termine!<br/>Podría decir que gracias a Carlos Fuentes empece a amar la lectura. Recomiendo este libro a toda la gente de todas las edades...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73655418">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35643539">
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    <name><![CDATA[mari]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Austin, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 18 14:17:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 18 14:36:46 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in college. It was in a Comparative Lit class on the Supernatural in fiction. We read a lot of great books. This was one of the best. I just reread it today for the first time since that class 10 years ago. A perfect, haunting novella  to read during October. <br/><br/>This ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35643539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29120257">
    <user id="1390155">
    <name><![CDATA[Jason Roy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Fort Wayne, IN]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 03 08:25:19 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 07 11:10:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Truly a haunting and frightening book. It is very short; you could easily read it in the space of an hour. From the first line, you will notice the unusual point-of-view: this novel is about you. You read of your own bewitching, of the sweet and succulent Aura, who comes to you by night and vanishes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29120257">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29120257]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40148133">
    <user id="354983">
    <name><![CDATA[Pablo]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Antonio, TX]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 15 09:37:01 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 15 09:43:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's too bad Fuentes' novella is so often overlooked. It moves in a fascinating terrain that straddles Borges and García Márquez...can't ask for more than that. The book is marked by myriad symbols...a memorable book by one of Latin America's literary lions.]]></body>
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    <review id="39023931">
    <user id="1639840">
    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lewisburg, PA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 01 08:49:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 08:51:35 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Memories of walking around disoriented in Mexico City--&quot;We can't get lost; we're on a grid!&quot;--trying to find as many locations as possible from the text, half-believing that we could. Good times.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39023931]]></url>
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    <review id="7217523">
    <user id="395170">
    <name><![CDATA[Kaveh]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[رمان کوتاهي نوشته ي فوئنتس است. ما را به ياد رمان کوتاه نويسنده ي شهيرمان صادق هدايت مي اندازد. بي دليل نيست که فوئنتس مي گويد دوست داشته کتابي شبيه بوف کور بنويسد.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7217523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3433955">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jacob]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 09 10:13:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a magical, eerie, hypnotic novella about the destabilizing force of the past as it overwhelms the present - historically, rationally, in dreams, sexually, every which way.<br/><br/>forced to write a paper about it, i was constantly referring to my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Oxford Spanish-English Dictionary" title=" Oxford Spanish-English Dictionary"> Oxford Spanish-English Dictionary</a> to cons...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3433955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75577803">
    <user id="2275401">
    <name><![CDATA[Pasha]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tehran, CA, Iran, Islamic Republic of]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 24 07:25:32 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 24 07:27:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[آئورا! آئورا! صدای کیست؟ بیخیال. کتاب کم حجمیه با زاویه نگاه دوم شخص یه پست مدرن متفاوت رگ و پی ات درکش میکنه]]></body>
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    <review id="48372730">
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    <name><![CDATA[Maria]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haunting and at no time during the story do you feel grounded.  I had a hard time getting used to the second person voice, but half way through I found myself very mesmorized by Fuentes' writing style.  Half dream and half waking. Very beautiful and well worth multiple reads.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Haunting short little novel, quite beautiful and complex. I'm not generally a fan of Carlos Fuentes, but this novel got to me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[یکی از معدود کتاب ها با نظرگاه دوم شخص مفرد و به راستی اعجاب انگیز]]></body>
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