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    <body><![CDATA[Huh.<br/><br/>The prose was detached and lifeless, as I have come to expect from Coetzee. Which leaves you cold and alone. In the rain, outside on the deserted street gazing at the lighted windows of the stalinesque apartment buildings across the road. And inside you there's this dull ache of holl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34882268">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unconventional, radically unconventional. I have read books on non-descript people. K is so non-descript that you would find an ant-hill more exciting. Yet his utter lack of 'will to power' (to borrow a phrase from Nietzsche) is poignant. It shakes the earth below your feet. His passiveness yells ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6398874">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Literary historians credit much of Ireland's rich literary tradition to its often tragic history. No surprise then that the nation of South Africa, likewise so rich in grief that it might as well diamonds, has produced so many extraordinary writers, two of whom, Coetzee included, who can boast a Nob...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28753344">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So disappointed was I with the second half of his two volume memoir, Youth, that not long after he won the Nobel, I left Coetzee sitting over the dim blue lotus of my literary backburner.  Five years later, with a taste for the grim joys of some Kafka or Beckett but needing light respite from the la...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24359301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The more I think of this book, the more I love it.  It is a mere 185 pages but is packed with enduring images of a man who only asks to be allowed to be himself.  Michael K is a simple man of modest means but his life is so much more than those words would suggest.  I would recommend this book highl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39094163">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Disgrace a long time ago and enjoyed it thoroughly, but not as much as Michael K (I think I was both too young and read it on a beach, so it could certainly use a revisit). In reading Coetzee's prose this time, I was struck by his economy of language.  His sentences are like coiled springs; s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11712338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>~ This review dedicated to 'Ya Boy.' I'ma sip this, you do the rest. ~</em><br/><br/><strong>The Community of Misery</strong><br/><br/>'Misery loves company.' I've always kind of really hated that expression because (rightly or not) I've usually deciphered the unsettling subtext whenever it's employed: <em>i.e.,</em> that peo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74041750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been thinking how much a good book is like an organic thing. When the proper level of alchemical transformation is reached between a skilled author at the top of his game and a reader with the proper level of receptivity and empathy then something new and wonderful is birthed. You are no long...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62461364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the first part of this book we meet Michael K, born with a harelip and living in Cape Town, South Africa.  As an adult his mother falls sick and he is struck by the realization the only way to save her is to bring her to her homeland not involved in the civil war of his own town.  What happens on...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62253186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually really liked this book. I was surprised because I don't remember enjoying disgrace at all, but that might have been my self righteous sense of moral outrage that I had at the time. Now that I know the whole world is filled with perverts using power to chase younger women, including myself...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71298744">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Kafka, K, Michael K, Koetzee <br/><br/>In Kafka’s ‘The Castle’, K seeks admittance into the castle of the title. He is foiled. In fact, his failure was pre-determined and his travails against his fate pathetic and absurd, but oddly touching. Michael K, protagonist of ‘Life and Times ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80951500">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[inilah bukti, bahwa penanda teks bisa membuat kita merasa asing dan terpencil. mungkin karena buku ini adalah sebuah terjemahan. sehingga teks yang dilahirkan adalah teks yang prematur. belum sempurna betul. pun bisa jadi tidak benar-benar melalui rahim sang penulis. <br/><br/>seharusnya, kisah hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60267925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A unique book to read in a time when we are overrun with everything in excess.  As Michael K's mother dies on the journey back to her home, Michael K is left alone to roam the physically torrential landscape of South Africa.  Not only does he face capture by roving armies, but he must now face life ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15864816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[hm, i will have to re-read part sof this book to remember why i have mixed feelings about it. although it is set in apartheid south africa, and is written from the unusual perspective of a man with learning disabilities, i was confused as to what the book's primary aim is, and why this book is appar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5474285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael K, dont la couleur de peau n'est jamais mentionnée, homme frustre et solitaire, quitte Le Cap accompagné de sa mère et se lance sur les routes. <br/><br/>Contrôles, interdictions, combats ne l'empêcheront pas d'accomplir son périple, remontant toujours plus loin au nord, en quête d'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66822216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Coetzee's beautiful tale of Michael K.'s search for meaning and dignity is inspiring and powerful - and unfortunately relevant. The war, racism, and human rights abuses framing &quot;The Life and Times of Michael K.&quot; are as close as tomorrow's headlines. By focusing on one man's attempt to live...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47569950">more...</a>]]></body>
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