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    <body><![CDATA[Gemlike in its quality, Turgenev’s <em>Fathers and Sons</em> is an exquisite novel, sensitive and perceptive, perfectly balancing the eternal issues of tradition and progressivism, conservativism and liberalism, science and religion, and, perhaps above all, the ambiguities and ambivalences of intergenerati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49591254">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I originally read this book in high school sophomore year when doing a comparison paper for my 20th Century Russian History course.  I wrote on the comparisons between the 'revolutionary' thinking of Bazarov and the younger generation in &quot;Fathers and Sons&quot; and the revolution that resulted ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59856290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ A guide to my rating system<br/>*********************************************************************<br/>5 Stars: This book is a timeless classic and undisputed member of the literary canon. I read and loved it.<br/><br/>4 Stars: This book is a personal classic.  A book I am happy to read agai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60913580">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is pretty amazing. It's about two young men, self-proclaimed nihilists, who travel around together and interact with people of different and similar world views. It's about teenage rebellion and father/child relationships. <br/><br/>Nowadays, parents try to stop their children from thinkin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53144407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good story about ideologies, generation gaps, friendship, and True Love, punctuated by plenty of wry, resigned humor about Russians and humanity in general that remains tender and steers clear of cynicism. Bazarov, the archetypal Angry Young Man around whom the story revolves, is a bit of an ass (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39577318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In my teens I fostered a deep fascination with all things Russian, so when I discovered this at the bottom of one of our bookcases (leftover from a course in world literature that my father had taken in college), of course I had to read it. It was, to my delight, filled with wonderful Russian names ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36317726">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not particularly clever. I'll admit that a lot of highbrow stuff goes right over my head. Give me meat and potatoes over one of those fancy little French meals anyday. So I was feeling a little bit of trepidation when I was asked to read this for my degree studies.<br/><br/>I needn't have worr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39506536">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a surprise. After reading Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, I expected this to be a more difficult read. (Don't get me wrong, I have loved Crime and Punishment, Anna Karenina, and The Brother's Karamazov. They are just dense and long.)  Fathers and Sons was not. My Russian-speaking friends said that inde...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75722670">more...</a>]]></body>
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