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  <title><![CDATA[Mr. Palomar]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;i&gt;Here, Calvino, probably Italy's leading novelist before he died, focuses a probing eye on one man's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as if Mr Palomar were trying to define and explain his own existence. Where the Palomar telescope points out into space, Mr Palomar points in: walking the beach, visting the zoo, strolling in his garden. Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku, with Mr Palomar reading a universe into the proverbial grain of sand.&lt;/i&gt;&quot;

&lt;i&gt;Time Out&lt;/i&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1983</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Palomar</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Italo Calvino]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 18 16:27:41 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I pick up an Italo Calvino book I am torn between two poles: on one hand, I am initially intensely disinterested: how to get involved in a book that has no overarching plot?  But on the other hand, Calvino chooses his words so carefully and wisely that not one sentence seems superfluous. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31133811">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Palomar is &quot;a nervous man who lives in a frenzied and congested world...and to defend himself against the general neurasthenia...tries to keep his sensations under control insofar as possible.&quot; The book is a series of short pieces that narrate Palomar's attempt to carefully observe his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69541135">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Palomar sets out to examine every possible aspect of his life and the world around him, trying to name everything and categorise everything scientifically. Of course he fails, and it's in the episodes of life squirming away from his rigid attempts at classification that the absurd humour comes. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52532077">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always loved the idea of Calvino, his books of ideas, the idea of the book in Calvino, though I've not always loved everything of his. This is a great one. I mean, there is a plot in the sense that one's life is a plot, that the evolution of Mr. Palomar's thinking is a plot. Not that plot matte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42557338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60616677">
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel (can't really call it that, more like a collection of musings) reminded me why I love calvino's work- beautiful prose (intricate but light; carefully chosen words), interesting premise (a man's quest to find the Absolute by observing principles at work in the mundane world around him), an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60616677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40467649">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another excellent book by Calvino.  I think it should get 4-1/4 stars or so.  The book is about a guy, Mr Palomar, who waxes philosophic on a number of different topics, but it's the arrangement of the book that's the key (besides the excellent writing).  The book is separated into 3 main sections, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40467649">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44056289">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel by Italo Calvino is barely a novel, with only the title character and no plot. Susan says she knows of a movie version, but even Calvino, with his prodigious imagination, probably couldn’t imagine selling screen rights to a story like this. Mr. Palomar mainly gazes and sometimes just po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44056289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59134203">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 10 07:13:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up and found the first chapter intriguing. It seemed to promise a modern philosophical novel. The second chapter was hillarious.  Sounds good, but then I ground to a halt. There was something a little thin about the drama and, perhaps, the philosophy.  I realize that I haven't given th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59134203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="73399463">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another intriguing book by Calvino. I doubt it's quite up everyone's street, but as a philosophy student, this book's elegant and acrobatic leaps of logic and investigations into everyday life are wonderful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More of a series of philosophical musings (they're too short to be essays) than a novel. If I read this before &quot;If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...,&quot; I might never have read another book by Calvino]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book on a short visit in Brooklyn. The first several stories were satisfyingly simple- once I finish my participation in the &quot;Infinite Summer&quot; reading group, I'll get back to it.]]></body>
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    <review id="39480086">
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read this one for a while, so I think I'm going to have to read it again. I didn't really understand much of what was going on the first time I read it...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short book; more of a compilation of very detailed observations and musings about life. Interesting and engaging. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Describes a man almost overwhelmed by his attempts not to live an unexamined life - his abstract notions about how to be a better, more fulfilled person tend to suffer from how annoying actual other people are. One of the most engaging chapters is on a visit to a cheese shop - with an undercurrent o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11063349">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3502216">
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    <body><![CDATA[not as good as his other work, but  worth reading. especially if you contemplate your every move. hey. don't close this review without considering the consequences. <br/><br/>mr. palomar happens to consider everything. while walking upon the shores of italy he finds a topless woman sun bathing (as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3502216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56143675">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[pisau bedah yang sangat dingin dalam membongkar kehidupan ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have done both myself and Calvino a disservice by reading this book when I was of absolutely no mind to appreciate it in the slightest.  It seemed insighful and thoughful and charming enough, but I could only apply my mind to the very last section, 'Learning to be dead', which, incidentally, is wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34291256">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A plotless series of reflections on the relationship between the part and the whole, through the eyes of the almost completely abstract and socially anonymous Mr Palomar. It would've been hard to read, except that the chapters were only 3-4 pages long and the book as a whole only 126 pages. So it wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20497405">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An anthem to the cronic/anxious over-thinker!  &quot;...Mr. Palomar decides that from now on he will act as if he were dead, to see how the world gets along without him...Mr. Palomar should feel a sensation of relief...But is is the very expectation of enjoying this calm that makes Mr. Palomar anxio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28404845">more...</a>]]></body>
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