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    <body><![CDATA[really enjoyed. every one talks about Kafka's mazes, the huge and terrifying machine of society, etc, etc,...  but what really makes this book happen for me is the humor and the sexually charged episodes (sometimes intertwined...)<br/><br/>things are hopeless, here. but the individual, frivolous a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46027005">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be the strangest book I have ever read. What can I say - it was Kafkaesque! I never knew what the trial was about, but I always thought it was about, well, a trial. It turns out - and I'm not spoiling it for you, because this is clear in the beginning - that Josef K. doesn't know what the t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7403100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tell Congress:<br/><br/>(1) Immediate repeal of the &quot;Protect America Act of 2007&quot; enacted in August.<br/><br/>(2) Immediate impeachment of Alberto Gonzales for lying to Congress when he testified under oath that there was no &quot;serious disagreement&quot; inside the Justice Departmen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7121175">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I was in high school - 11th grade, I think, we were assigned a big English project: choose any author, read everything you can find by said author, report back. In an effort to distinguish myself from the masses, I chose an author whom I figured was obscure and utterly unknown to my highschool ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1410111">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Trial&quot; is funny. If you read it as a comedy, it's not only more entertaining, it's far more frightening. Dark Comedy. The moral of the story, to elaborate a cliche', is that it's only futile to resist when you have no idea what you're resisting. We never know what K did wrong, and nei...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15863149">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The painter made a leap for the door, opened it a little—K. could see the imploring, outstretched, clasped hands of the girls—and said: “If you don’t stop that noise I’ll fling you all down the stairs. Sit down here on the steps and see that you keep quiet.”</p><br/><p>Apparently they did not ...</p></blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69684393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is insightful enough on a literal level--capturing the pettiness and senselessness, the ability to wear you down with endless details, the inability to see the forest for the trees, of governments and offices and corporations and institutions and agencies.  The seeking of power over others...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69543803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Considering when this book was written, and the circumstances of it's publication following the author's death, it's an undeniable classic of literature.  I listened to audiobook version -- read by George Guidall -- of a recent translation by Breon Mitchell and would recommend it, though I can not c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59271703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It’s years since I last read The Trial, but what struck me this time was how funny the book is. There is a line of dark, cutting humour running right the way through the narrative, particularly when K dismisses someone who seemed to have promised help. The reasoned way in which K deals with this i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62358697">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kafka's Trial inhabits the world of the surreal so completely that reading the book is like walking into a dream.  Just like a dream, the story is losely coherent and there is an odd notion that emotions is the only thing that drives the story.  These emotion of being lost in a huge legal system in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75378039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book for a few different reasons.  On one level, this book is a frightening image of a judicial system in particular, and modern bureaucracy in general, that operates through secrecy and the arbitrary application of power.  Ambiguity permeates the modern experience in this book.  K. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78580079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Trial</em> is a Franz Kafka novel that neither the author nor I will finish.<br/><br/>Like much of Kafka’s work, <em>The Trial</em> was incomplete at the time of his death, but contained enough to be published posthumously. It opens with two men arresting K., a senior bank teller, on the morning of his th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67892824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think there's much left to say as far as the book itself... Amazing. There does seem to be some confusion in some of the reviews here as to whether this novel was/is meant to be taken dead seriously or as an example of black humor, and it seems to me that the answer is both. I think you run ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40381529">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just caught the tail-end of Orson Welles' version of <em>The Trial</em> on Turner Classic Movies ...and dynamite? Really, Orson?  <br/><br/>&quot;Leave it open for a sequel, Orson.  This could be our summer franchise.&quot;<br/><br/>***<br/><br/>I now own three copies of this book.  Two purchased at th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44570413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off: The Whipping.  <br/><br/>Moving forward.  Is it me or does this novel take place entirely in K.'s head?  I mean, the Law takes the form of internal religious truth and a lot of representations of the labyrinths the mind (the puzzling and intertwined court &quot;offices&quot;, the magnit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58280347">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Kafka facinates me.  When someone can write something that turns all expectations on their heads, I am intrigued by the mind that conceived it.<br/><br/>This book was incredibly frustrating.  The main character did nothing that I thought he should.  The system he was working within was totally mes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43779767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first experience with Kafka. After vacationing in Praque, I came home and wanted to read this book that had been sitting on my shelves for quite some time.<br/>And I'm happy I did - the way the system completely undermines individual spirit and even one's faith in one's own innocence is very int...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8023510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to read this book since Kafka is pretty much everywhere in Prague.  And I did really like the concept of a man who must go through this frustrating trial process, not knowing what he is accused of and all the maddening bureaucracy that went with it.  It felt very “Czech” to me and I tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52530132">more...</a>]]></body>
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