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    <body><![CDATA[“The Unnamed” is a fascinating account of a man literally at war with himself – a character torn between compulsion and resistance, body and mind.  It is a complex and heartbreaking novel about the effects of disease, both physical and psychological, on a person’s humanity and his relationsh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80095505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An original story dealing with themes of illness, psychosis and its effects on human relationships. Tim is afflicted by an unknown disease which expresses itself as a compulsion to walk; as a consequence he loses his job and his family as he sets off across America risking exhaustion, further illnes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72427807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished reading a galley of this book. I have been mulling it over for a few days to really gauge how I feel about it. I am still not sure. So gripping in the beginning. You literally cannot put it down. The middle and end lost me a bit. But I find myself days later still thinking about it. Fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71282049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a tough one for me to rate and came really close to getting 2 stars.  His writing is pretty good, and he has a gift for getting inside a character's head and drawing out the crazy, which I generally appreciate.  Early on I was reminded strongly of T.C. Boyle's novels with a tortured male ce...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64597199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel is a curiosity. It's odd, lovely, and desperately sad. It starts out looking like a rather plot-driven novel and gradually changes into something else entirely. Tim, the main character, suffers from an unnamed disorder that makes him walk involuntarily. That's it. That's the premise of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73338465">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so excited to get this ARC yesterday, and read it straight away. It is wildly different from Then We Came to The End, but is is hauntingly sad in that same way, and was a wonderful, if disturbing read. <br/>Tim, a lawyer, suffers from a condition with no name- he walks and walks and walks, wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60657764">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up and then didn't put it down until I had finished. Using the conceit of an unfamiliar illness to revisit the familiar issues of living a life knowing that one must eventually confront death, and the questions of the existence of the soul, independent of the body is genius. I kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80398809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really not sure how I feel about this, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt and adding the third star. Ferris handles the tone well, but I never quite got a sense of why we should care about this story. Whereas the distance he kept from the characters in Then We Came to The End proved to be an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81208364">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of Tim Farnsworth, a wealthy high-profile trial attorney who suffers bouts of ... something.    The &quot;Unnamed&quot; which finally takes hold of him and destroys all he  holds dear.  Although I found this book rather odd, I could not put it down.  Is Tim descending into madness?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65389993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Suprisingly better than his first book, but entirely unlike Then We Came to the End.<br/><br/>There are echoes of Cheever, Yates and the classic take on suburban insanity, but also an entirely unique look at what happens to a person who has lost control of his mind and body. The unnamed in The Unn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58410553">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The brilliantly simple concept of this book--a man has an unnamed ailment that causes him to wander unstoppably for months at a time--is something Chuck Palahniuk might come up with, but where Palahniuk would turn the plot into the realm of the stomach-turning, Ferris veers instead into the heart-wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80951358">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this, but unlike <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2025667.Then_We_Came_to_the_End" title="Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris">Then We Came to the End</a>, which softened the edges of its bleakness with humor and satire, this novel just sinks into the gloom and doesn't let go. It's beautifully written, and the mix of artful prose and cheerless subject matter likely will appeal to critics and so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80462242">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very thought-provoking, great read from a favorite author of mine.  Not  funny like his first book, Then We Came to the End. This is the story of a man with an unnamed disease.  Or is it a condition?  No one knows.  How he and his family deal with the mystery illness is a compelling story.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved his previous book, and I had high hopes for his follow-up, and he did not fail. I loved this book. You felt for the characters and situations. I cried while reading this book , because my heart went out to the main character. Defintely recommend. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the way Ferris writes, but I wasn't too crazy about the story. The mystery illness was interesting, but I found his view on marriage so heartbreakingly sad. Would have finished faster if I wasn't so busy catching up on True Blood. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as WOW as Then We Came to the End, but a great second novel. I like Ferris and his way of creating characters that we can follow down the path to insanity. If you're going to read this book, do it in winter as the feeling of cold will be all the more vivid.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was really convinced that Ferris' second novel would be a let down after his very excellent first novel, but I was happily proved wrong! This book is stunning and lonely...I loved it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was ok.  Great idea and interesting how the story sort of spins out into its own realm but got boring near the end.  His first book is far superior, but I appreciate the valiant effort!]]></body>
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