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  <title><![CDATA[The Adolescent]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[Empecé este libro con mucha ilusión. Acabo de leer  Hermanos Karamazov hace poco, y todavía no se me ha pasado la impresión.<br/>Supongo que eso pudo influir para que este libro no me gustara tanto. <br/>Aunque hay cosas que me encantan.<br/><br/>Me gustó la idea de que estuviera escrito en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43685981">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first foray into Dostoevsky, and I truly admired his grasp of adolescent psychology and his ability to accurately maintain Arkady's voice and character.  His ambition, over-confidence, and firmness in principle are so spot-on.  I loved that Dostoevsky keeps the plot twisting and turning s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68651094">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's possible that Dostoevsky overstuffed the sandwich on this one, but even so I love him for his infectious exuberance for sandwiches and I devoured the messy thing with relish.  <br/><br/>The Adolescent is a little like The Sound and the Fury (which I read 20 pages of), in that both are present...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22326291">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8011530">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[los que un día fueron adolescentes confusos y perdidos, o los que aún lo son]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creo que &quot;El adolescente&quot; muchas veces queda olvidada entre todas las obras de Dostoievski. Tengo la sensación de que se considera una obra menor, pero no lo es ni por asomo. Es mi favorita después de &quot;Demonios&quot;, por encima de crímenes, castigos, idiotas y Karmazovs. Muy recom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8011530">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not his best. But there's this: &quot;And so, if you want to discern a man and know his soul, you must look, not at how he keeps silent, or how he speaks, or how he weeps, or even how he is stirred by the noblest ideas, but you had better look at him when he laughs. . . And I especially recommend it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56949514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Undoubtedly the least-known of Dostoevsky's bigger works, and for good reason, I think. It struck me that the point of the book was to explore the mores of the author's place and time period, and all in a very sly and subtle way. How much does it have to offer readers of our own time? Not a huge amo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50897153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read this PV translation, but I've read CG's. I'll write a better review once I've read it again, after I finish Frank's<br/>biographies....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just started. I saw a Soviet/Russian TV serial based on this book back in the 80's. I enjoyed it back then, so now is time for the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[when i read this in high school i thought this book was totally deep (or, rather, i thought the main character was a complete hero) and tried to live on bread for a week or something dumb like that...  then i re-read the book last year and realized that the book is actually funny, and the main chara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30923178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest, compared with the other Dostoevsky works, this one takes a little getting used to. But it's well worth the work. The book is aptly about passion and youth and a youth's passionate inability to understand the world; if you read in this in conjunction with Notes from the Underground, thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17731618">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8471885">
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    <body><![CDATA[It was very interesting to read Dostoevsky's attempt to write in the voice of a 19-year-old.  I was initially expecting this character to be 19 in age, but was skeptical that Dostoevsky would be able to accurately protray him as a realistic adolescent.  To my utter amazement and delight, I think he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8471885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59087741">
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    <body><![CDATA[ It wouldn't be Dostoevsky without the mandatory ravings and love-driven mania. Enter: Arkady, the 19 year old protagonist, who is endearing despite his somewhat frustrating reluctance to act. He might also be a pathological liar, but that's beside the point in this circumstantially-driven novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As this was recommended by a good friend, who often teaches me new stuff...  I can't wait to read it!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[note : l'Adolescent n'a pas l'air tres interessant, je dois lire les autres.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[slightly disjointed, but considering its narrated by an angsty teenager who's own mind is slightly disjointed, thats rather forgivable. jumps from high comedy to tragedy quite often. the ending is somewhat anti climactic however, considering that a great catastrophe is constantly alluded to througho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37748151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48630443">
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    <body><![CDATA[another towering novel by one of the greatest authors.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edition I read titled The Adolescent]]></body>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jul 20 09:41:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well there were some beautiful passages, but to me it doesn't live up to Notes from Underground, Crime &amp; Punishment, The Idiot, or The Brothers Karamozov. The last 150 pages seemed a chore to get through.<br/><br/>Yet, I still love Dostievsky.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The characters in this novel, although intriguing, did not captivate me like most of Dostoevsky's other characters. I found that many of them were underdeveloped, or flat. I appreciated Dostoevsky's choice of a naive, young narrator (Arkady Makarovich) and think he executed Arkady's worldview excell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25197170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Namrirru]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 12 17:41:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 12 19:32:33 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tie between this and Crime and Punishment. <br/><br/>I never understood guys my own age until I read this book. Actually, Dostoevsky does more for me than any psychology textbook, his characters express themselves with real feelings. You never get the sense they were just imagined in someone's h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3004506">more...</a>]]></body>
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