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    <body><![CDATA[I really don't want to read this, but my adviser wants me to write on it!  UGH.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Whoah. This book is 1,000 pages of circular sentences, many of which were constructed in Gertrude Steins's head while sitting for a portrait by Picasso. If you are okay skipping head, the last page includes a remarkable passage on dying. There's also a taped recording of this section at many library...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27240272">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[boring.  tired. she was cruising on her own self importance on this one--not to say Stein didn't do the same in the &quot;Autobiography of Alice B...&quot; but that is an entirely different, well written, educating and entertaining tale. reflexive to the point of ilrelevance.  crap.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been so long since I had my big, big Gertrude Stein phase, but I loved this book tremendously.  It's hypnotic, folding over itself and winding through people and thoughts and the lives they were leading.<br/><br/>Not for the casual reader, certainly, but enchanting.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read the 130 abridged version and it was awesome. i read half out loud and the other half loud and slow in my head. every word spanked me<br/><br/>i think the real version is like 900 pages long. thats a summer job]]></body>
    
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