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    <body><![CDATA[Wow! I am so pleased to see so many 5 star reviews on GR of this novel...I was so awed by it (to use that overused word) when I read it in the 80's...so very beautiful, haunting, lyrical...and incredibly innovative.  But why did no one ever talk about it? Teach it in an &quot;experimental fiction&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18645849">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this years ago, wound up assigning it to my Literature &amp; Ecology of the Sea class.  Definitely not for the faint of heart due to Mathiessen's use of a variety of graphic &amp; textual &quot;experiments&quot; including writing all the dialog in a sort of &quot;you are right there listening to it&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9241247">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[ OK, this, the 3rd Peter M. book I tried really surprised me. What a wonderfully engaging mariner's tale. I love this one and feel Peter M. did a wonderful job telling this story. Having spent some time on a shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico myself, many years ago, I quite enjoyed this one. However,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47173083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Metthiessen uses words like no one else in the world.  They are beautiful - utterly beautifdul.  It takes a little while to get used to the rhythm of the language, but once you find it, the lyrical cadence is unforgettable.]]></body>
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    <review id="69767112">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the only fiction by Peter Matthiessen I have liked...and I liked it very much. I found it somehow compelling, difficult to put down, but ultimately depressing, but that's OK because it's a captivating story well told. I have travelled in the area on and off since the 1950's and that may have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69767112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39616870">
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  <read_at>Mon Feb 23 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this one four stars instead of five because, like some other readers here, I struggled a little bit with matching up the dialogue with the characters.  Often times you arent sure who is speaking and in some cases, who is thinking.  I found that the best way to get around this is to just give ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39616870">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 24 20:42:58 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn’t plan on re-reading this favorite novel but when I recently went to Texas to visit my brothers I injured my ankle and was laid up for the better part of the morning and early afternoon and grabbed the book off my brother’s shelf and read half of the novel there and finished it back home....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13471727">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="79908509">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 04 15:03:49 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The clipped, present-tense style may have been groundbreaking in 1975, but today it reads like an overlong screenplay.  Another misfire:  the thick patois of the Caribbean characters, tediously rendered through obfuscatory misspelled dialogue.]]></body>
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    <review id="78872778">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange and atmospheric book, lots of Caribbean dialect dialog, which you're either going to love or hate.  Obviously takes some cues from Melville, and essentially a tragedy in the same vein.  Good if you like maritime stories.]]></body>
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    <review id="26887188">
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 10 14:08:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A novel that relies heavily on visual representation and page layout.  Dialogue appears untagged - and appears almost like a screenplay.  Pauses within speech are shown in space, the ship's manifest is reproduced on page, and there is a diagram of the ship (rather than a verbal description).  Days, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26887188">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47499903">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating book.  At times I wasn't sure I liked it.  At other times I found it amazingly compelling.  I've decided at last that I liked it quite a bit.  This one is fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've enjoyed almost everything Peter Matthiessen has written except for this book. The strange minimalistic way that it's written just didn't do anything for me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a must for anyone who like the Caribbean or sailing]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A perfect beach book. A simple adventure story of hunting turtles off the coast of Nicaragua. A meditation of the sea. The language is terse. Most of the story is dialogue, captured in a rough Caribbean dialect. Also, there are pirates.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for the second time and loved the use of the patois of the characters, turtele fishermen, all ultimately doomed to a dying way of life. A Moby Dick for the Caribbean.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend this book to people that want a poetic, solitary story that. I've read it 3 times and I love the way it makes me think about what is fleeting in life...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Matthiessen is one of my favorite travel writers.  He weaves such a lush picture you find yourself mentally journeying to where ever he takes you.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A master of historical recreation of time, place and culture; Matthiessen brings old Florida and the swamps of the deep south back to life.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rather than read a review by me, read Peter Matthiessen's thoughts on it:<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3895" title="http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/3895">http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia....</a><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[astonishing. life, without a single filter. just reread for 6th time.]]></body>
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