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  <title><![CDATA[Mr. Vertigo]]></title>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was a young dumb teenager unaware of the complexity of the whole world, one of the hit songs I use to listen again and again and once more on a self recorded tape was &quot;I wish I could fly&quot; by Roxette. <br/>Ehm. <br/><br/>Have you noticed that &quot;When I was a young dumb etc.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2978931">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mr. Vertigo, ironically, is about a boy named Walter who learns to fly.  He starts off the book born in St. Louis, and living in Chicago, about ten to fifteen years before the great depression.  Walt lives with an abusive uncle and his &quot;yes-sir&quot; wife, until Master Yehudi comes into Walt's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70847526">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[An episodic story, &quot;told&quot; in strong narrative about the life and times of Walt the Wonder Kid, a.k.a. Mr. Vertigo, the boy who could walk on air. <br/><br/>Walt, a young castaway, befriends the Master Yehudi who puts him through 33 trials of endurance - some pretty gruesome, like being b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41835098">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading this book, I couldn't stop thinking about a very different author, Paul Coelho, who wrote a very similar kind of novel, The Alchemist. Both of them are more a parable than a book, a motivational speaking seminar designed to make you wake up and realize the miracles that you (yes YOU) could m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35608016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32588971">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could suit myself with simply writing, &quot;The man is a genius,&quot; and letting my review at that, because that is what Paul Auster is absolutely deserving of.  1994's Mr. Vertigo is nothing short of astounding in its breadth and vision, encompassing a nation's loss of wonderment and in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32588971">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This could sound snobby and euphemistic, but I don't mean it that way at all--this is an extremely readable book. It's fairly short (compared to some of the stuff I've read in the past year or so, anyway) at less than 300 pages, and it moves pretty quickly. I think Auster does a very good job of cre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31789858">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The last two Paul Auster books I read, <em>Timbuktu</em> and <em>Travels in the Scriptorium</em>, were so bad that I almost gave up hope of his books being great.  But <em>Mr. Vertigo</em> was pretty amazing.  It's one of the few Auster novels where everything wraps up in the end; he leaves no unanswered questions, which it's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11353024">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I never got the impression that this was the &quot;Story of America Itself&quot; as the back cover claims, but it was an enjoyable little book. It starts out strong with engaging characters I liked reading about and a really fun premise, but it loses the plot a little more than halfway through. At t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63366556">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a book club book for a meeting I never made it to. Fictional autobiography of Walt, a street kid from St. Lous who is taken under the wing of a magician named Master Yehudi. The master teaches Walt how to levitate (for serious), and after his showbiz career is cut short at 14, we follow him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/850328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't love this book. It has some fun points and some interesting points in the book, but I thought the book kind of sagged in the middle with little happening. Then, the final 2-3 chapters rush through about 60 years of the narrator's life. The rush makes for some huge contrivances to move thing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70534534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For 99/100 of this book, I was absolutely in love. The story was funny and imaginative: a young boy falls in with a mysterious stranger who promises to teach him to fly, an act that will lead to both of their fortunes. Along the way the two have adventures both grand and heart-wrenching. I would hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24547512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't remember why I read this except perhaps my stepmother recommended it. A man I'd dated once thought Auster (The New York Trilogy) was the be all and end all so I was curious to read something by him. Alas, I don't remember much about the book except maybe not liking it very much. ]]></body>
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    <review id="28445155">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[considering what the gr star systeam means this book should only get 3 stars but its a book by paul auter and that gaves it extra credit on my book.<br/><br/>Mr. vertigo is a story about un orphan boy, walter, that is rescued form the streets by a strange charater Master yehudai, that sees in me a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28445155">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31413441">
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice breeze of a read, with Auster's usual style of turning over more stories than you can count in your head.  The narrative, as told by a man who recounts his youth (and beyond) of successes and pitfalls, is nimble enough to hop from story to story.  Unfortunately, this deftness of story-hopping...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31413441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42203119">
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful story line, real readable fiction, surrealism, and the historical detail is blended seamlessly into the batter. ]]></body>
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    <review id="53857100">
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    <body><![CDATA[¿Es un chico especial el protagonista? Nadie lo somos y sólo hay una manera de aprenderlo, viviendo.<br/><br/>Auster es garantía.]]></body>
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    <review id="73855845">
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    <body><![CDATA[A great book, filled with allusion and emotion.  definitely a must read, as are the rest of Auster's novels.]]></body>
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