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  <title><![CDATA[Kiss of the Spider Woman]]></title>
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  <default_description>Sometimes they talk all night long. In the still darkness of their cell, Molina re-weaves the glittering and fragile stories of the film he loves, and the cynical Valentin listens. Valentin believes in the just cause which makes all suffering bearable; Molina believes in the magic of love which makes all else endurable. Each has always been alone, and always - especially now - in danger of betrayal. But in cell, each surrenders to the other something of himself that he has never surrendered before.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>El beso de la mujer ara&#241;a</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Manuel Puig]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 29 22:17:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Dec 14 17:32:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So funny thing, I actually started this book once when I was a kid, maybe about nine years old? Strangely, I thought I remembered what I'd read really clearly, but then on this rereading realized I'd read more of it before than I'd previously realized. Also funny, my passion for this book waned arou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7019369">more...</a>]]></body>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>4</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Aug 26 17:10:39 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 26 17:13:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[-- What are you reading?<br/>-- <em>Kiss of the Spider Woman</em>.<br/>-- Hey, I've heard of that.<br/>-- Likely because of the movie that was made of it.<br/>-- How is the book?<br/>-- Fantastic.  Essentially all dialogue, but somehow all the more descriptive for it.<br/>-- Huh. You gonna finish those...]]></body>
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    <review id="40450200">
    <user id="193310">
    <name><![CDATA[brian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 19 06:59:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 19 07:41:41 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[no comment.<br/><br/>i have a few rules regarding bookface. one of 'em being that you just don't write a book report within a month  of DFJ reporting on the same book. i mean, c'mon. it'd be like singing a duet with morrissey. or crossing swords with john holmes. or moving into the kremlin directl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40450200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40959677">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jamie]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[po-mo freaks, lovers of weird lit]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 16:03:29 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 21 09:31:45 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really fascinating novel that I wasn't expecting to like at first.  You're kind of swept up in the dialogue between unidentifiable characters in an unidentifiable setting--and you're left in this limbo for a good 20 or so pages.  But Puig's undercutting of generic and authorial authority in the text...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40959677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2533939">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[jailbird faggots]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jun 29 10:48:52 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 11 10:06:58 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Puig's tale consists [almost] entirely of dialogue.  Written in the mid-seventies, during the Argentinian junta of 'disappearances' and mass incarceration, Kiss of the Spider Woman traces the evolving relationship of two convicts: a youthful dissident and an older homosexual.  Later made into a succ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2533939">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="27890447">
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    <name><![CDATA[Fabian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[El Paso, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 21 15:28:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 01 10:40:52 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[More than anything, this book gets me excited about the possibilities of writing. Puig revolutionizes the way the novel is framed: his awesome work is a play, a stream of consciousness, a historic document, a research paper, a review of films... it is all these things in one poignant and hard-to-put...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27890447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41461472">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Puig, Manuel.  KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN.  (Eng. trans. – 1978).  *****.  This novel has been sitting on my to-be-read pile for almost three years now.  I managed to find a first edition in a used book shop in Seattle back then, but never got around to reading it.  I remember seeing the film many y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41461472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42768770">
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    <name><![CDATA[Fiona]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 12 05:35:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 16 15:15:07 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd seen the film ages ago and thought I knew what to expect from the book, but I was wrong. I've never read anything quite like this, in that the book has no narration at all. Most is in the form of pure dialogue, like a radio play without sound effects. At points, there are long, long footnotes, m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42768770">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40374063">
    <user id="1162566">
    <name><![CDATA[Michael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Failed revolutionaries, cynics, people who like to whine]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 18 07:18:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 10:17:57 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most everything about this odd book is enjoyable: the dialogue is crisp and never flat, the characters believably drawn, and the film plots that comprise much of the storytelling are told with startling freshness. Valentin and Molina's cell could be anywhere where two people are discussing life; Pui...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40374063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70420250">
    <user id="82829">
    <name><![CDATA[Abeer]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 07 19:13:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 23 00:10:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[KotS-W is a conversation between two inmates, a gay window dresser and a revolutionary.  I was biased from the beginning, but against the blurb writer.  The window dresser is described on the back of the book as self centred but charming, but in no way does he come across as self centred, unless you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70420250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70854634">
    <user id="115028">
    <name><![CDATA[Jane]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Tucson, AZ]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 11 10:41:58 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 18 12:23:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[--So the entire book is just one conversation between two men?<br/>--They're in prison and don't have anything else to do. One guy is effeminate and he talks about movies and identifies with the women in the movies.<br/>--And the other guy?<br/>--He's macho and at first he looks down on the effem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70854634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58097845">
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    <name><![CDATA[Abby]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Jun 01 15:13:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 01 15:16:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really, if Goodreads had half stars, this would probably be a 4.5, just cause I didn't love it as much as Boquitas Pintadas... my only problem was a few elements that, for me, didn't fit, mainly the footnotes about research on the causes of homosexuality. Boring and unnecessary! <br/>Otherwise, an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58097845">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60065448">
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    <name><![CDATA[Molly]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 17 13:05:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should have attempted to appreciate this book more from the start. It is not something to read half asleep before bed. It is a non-authoritative screenplay dialogue between two prisoners, one of whom is openly gay and the other of whom is a political prisoner. The footnotes, which get lengthy at t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60065448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45439585">
    <user id="1883948">
    <name><![CDATA[веселин власакиев]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 05 05:01:40 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[тази система няма никакво уважение към други езици, а<br/><br/>моето българско издание е от 259 страници и го бях зарязал, но сега го отворих и ми лъхна на хубаво. ще го пр...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45439585">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54111339">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andrea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Bogot�, 33, Colombia]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[El Beso de la Mujer Araña, para mí, es un libro sin más ni menos, es decir no es un libro extraordinario para mí ni tan bueno como la mayoría de la gente dice (al menos en los revwes de Goodreads), de echo casi no lo acabo porque ya me estaba empezando a parecer realmente malo, me parece un poc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54111339">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42276982">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 07 16:56:07 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Esta novela es magnífica. Preciosa. 'El beso de la mujer araña' está escrita prácticamente toda ella en forma de diálogo sin acotaciones, excepto por un informe policial, algún monólogo interior y las notas a pie de página sobre teorías psicológicas sobre la homosexualidad. Y creo que es e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35765771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[puig's characters interact like they were an old married couple.  very intuitive reactions and interactions, which makes it easier to accept their eventual sexual relationship.  but once you examine that objectively, it seems strange that this hardened man, seemingly set in traditional ways, would b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35096151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had little idea what to expect from this novel, and the title was at first off-putting. The narrative is a long dialogue between two prisoners who share a cell in an Argentinean prison. One is a political prisoner, the other is in for 'corrupting minors'; in other words he is homosexual.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24045207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost the entire story takes place in a jail cell between a revolutionary, Valentin, and the window dresser, Molina, who has been put there to learn secrets of the revolutionary Valentin. As the story progresses, though, a very strong bond between the two inmates develops. Molina tells stories abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7816503">more...</a>]]></body>
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