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    <body><![CDATA[HOMEBODY is far better than KABUL.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intense. You really have to stay in your toes in order to understand what's going on. I read this book in college. I would not have picked it off the shelf as something to read, but I am glad my professor picked it out for me. I have never read anything like this book. Some scenes are hilarious, whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13280964">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, the first act -- the eponymous character's monologue -- is the whole play.  Its text makes one step aside and bow down, as a reader, a writer, an observer of human history.  Actors should find their humility in that text.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this play is astonishing. the opening monologue is worth alone the play's weight in gold. the development of the story is mind-blowing, moving, and pleasantly mystifying: a brilliant commentary of the State Of The World. i can't wait to teach it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[what i was most intrigued by in this play was it's treatment of language and connection and its linking together of the personal and [not only public, but] international.  i would love to see it performed live.]]></body>
    
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