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  <title><![CDATA[A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy]]></title>
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  <default_description>Susannah's official boyfriend, Jason, is the perfect foil for her student lifestyle. He is ten years older, an antiques dealer, and owns a stylish apartment that prevents her from having to live in the seedy digs on campus. This way, she can take her philosophy major very seriously and dabble in the social and sexual freedom of 1970s university life. But circumstances become more complicated than Susannah would like when she begins to have an affair with her tutorial partner, Rob. Soon she is dating two men, missing her lectures, exploring independence and feminism with her girlfriends, and finding herself in a particularly impossible dilemma:&#160;she becomes pregnant. Forced to look beyond her friends and lovers for support, she finds help and inspiration from the lessons of Kierkegaard and other European philosophers. 

A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy is a delightfully insightful, bittersweet coming-of-age romp, in which love is far from platonic and the mind-body predicament a pressing reality. It even succeeds where many introductions to philosophy have failed, by effortlessly bringing to life the central tenets of the most important European philosophers of modern times. </default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a 22 year old philosophy student at Sussex, Susannah’s life revolves around her studies and her relationship with her older boyfriend Jason. When a boy in her course catches her fancy, she’s suddenly pulled in two different directions, but instead of making a decision and choosing one over th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64848679">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I really enjoyed reading this book. The book was set in the 1970's - and even though the date is never mentioned, there are many clues regarding fashion, cars, etc, that lead you to the time frame. Susannah is very engaging and she drew me in immediately. Even though she did not want to live on cam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57984571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was thoroughly surprised by how much I enjoyed reading A Girl's Guide. The writing was excellent, the structure was impeccable. It was a genuinely amazing read. It was one of those that I literally sat down for about two hours and read straight through.<br/><br/>One of the biggest draws to this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57382456">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Susannah Jones is working on her philosophy degree at a college in Sussex, circa the 1970's. She seems trapped between worlds, not wanting to dwell in the short-changed domiciles of her fellow students, nor be stifled in the identity robbing adult world of her boyfriend. But finding a balance betwee...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56328213">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For one reason or another, I fell in love with A Girl’s Guide to Modern European Philosophy on the very first page.  Some books are just like that for me, but I can never explain why.  I suppose I should make a list of them and compare those first pages in an attempt to find the answer.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60681568">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The year is 1974.<br/><br/>Some days it feels like Susannah and her boyfriend Jason are talking complete circles around each other. A big reason for that might have to do with the fact that Jason is ten years older than Susannah. Also Jason is an antiques dealer, whereas Susannah is a college stud...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55314092">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The plug on the cover of the book calls it &quot;saucy,&quot; which it is not, and &quot;profoundly funny,&quot; which it is also not. (I am beginning to wonder if reviewers feel like they have to call a book funny if they liked it, even if it isn't particularly funny.) It is &quot;beautifully writt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67568721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Girl's Guide to Modern European Philosophy was just ok to me. I think before deciding to read it I should have considered the fact that the word &quot;Philosophy&quot; was in the title a bit more than I did. I think if I appreciated Philosophy a bit more than I do I would have enjoyed it more.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58603201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Susanna is a philosophy student at Essex University.  She lives with a boyfriend she doesn't really like in his apartment, which she considers to be a warehouse for antiques.  Much of the story is concerned with appearances (clothes, shoes, where to eat, walking around alone, what to drink, what to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66740561">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Susannah is a second year university student, carelessly indulging her confusions in a manner that readers of a certain age will quickly recognize. Watching her drift between her two lovers, her capacity to properly attend to matters is apparently questionable, except when it comes to her curriculum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61479841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyable and thought-provoking book. It could have been a 1970s-era Bridget Jones' Diary knock-off, but it rose above that thanks to the smattering of philosophy, fleshed-out, mostly sympathetic characters and gritty period details (did people really smoke so much back then???). I liked that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57498207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm torn.  I really thought it was going to go a different direction and then it didn't.  I had no idea it was set in the 1970's until almost the end of the book.  Maybe I missed an earlier reference.  However, I couldn't put the book down and so hence the three stars instead of the two stars.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70750344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Um, yeah, needed a diversion so I read my vacation book before vacation. Decent read, the philosophy bits were the most interesting especially as they were interwoven with the narrator's decisions. And I've been meaning to revisit Heidegger and Kierkegaard. (LOVED my time as a philosophy student!) B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63208727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating book that I'm going to need to keep reflecting on before I can finish this review. This is a novel about a young philosophy student and it weeks modern philosophers' works into her thinking and actions--quite an interesting concept. The book claims to weave in Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66706806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone else needs to read this book and tell me the significance of the ending and some of the symbolism throughout. Maybe I need to read more philosophy before I get it, I don't know. I did enjoy the stroll with Kierkegaard, though. It made me laugh.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this despite the title.  I had to push myself a bit to get through it since the narrator seems so flaky and unlikable.  My opinion of her changed by the end, and I <em>almost</em> wanted to pick up my college copy of Kierkegaard again.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 04 16:23:53 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Samantha, working on her dissertation in philosophy, uses lessons from Nietzsche and Kirkegrard to direct her actions, namely, beginning an affair with her classmate, even though she lieves with a boyfriend 10 years her senior. The writing a little dense, and the protagonist is not a particularly sy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74874097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting to follow through her the philosophical thought process but really overall I did not like the main character.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a fun read -- kinda cute.  I enjoyed the use of philosophy in making her decisions.]]></body>
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