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    <body><![CDATA[Gift from a co-worker.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Enigma of Arrival is one of V. S. Naipaul's masterpieces. In it he brilliantly conveys the atmosphere of the English countryside as the narrator meditates on his original journey from Trinidad to England. The feeling of the place is palpable and the evocation of place is underlined by the physic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27542033">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a curious book because, in the end, nothing much happens in it.  But to me it is the best Naipaul I have read  besides A Turn in the South, and the best one at unpacking his conflicted feelings of self without the kind of self- and other-loathing that plagues his travels to the Caribbean and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13351698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love the title of this half fiction half memoir by V.S. Naipaul.  Apparently it's named after a famous, old painting.  The novel itself though is neither engrossing nor &quot;enigmatic&quot;; it's enigmatic only in the sense that it's not clear what it's about.  I enjoyed the novel most when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9851397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a slow read and a fairly action-less book, yet I felt intrigued to continue because of the way the author reflected on life and change. I'm not sure if it was a memoir or a fictional account written as a memoir.   It was a good book to read during the process of moving and transition becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69173397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No real plot to speak of but still absorbing.  That's quite a trick.  Avoid this if you're put off by extended descriptions of the English countryside.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Flat - that's the best word to describe how I felt while reading this book.  It's unbelievably repetitious.  I have nothing good to say about it]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Si en lugar de un condado inglés Naipaul hubiera escrito sobre un supermercado londinense, el libro sería una obra maestra. ]]></body>
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