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    <body><![CDATA[Finally, after a busy week, I have finished my journey to the end of this book. Savage, brutal, disgusting, repulsive, and misanthropic are not necessarily adjectives I would use to describe a masterpiece, but with Celine, they're all meant as compliments. <br/><br/>Is it the most pessimistically ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52282995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fifteen years of sitting on my bookshelves and I finally get around to reading it. This is a little bit sad, because I would have loved this book fifteen years ago, when I believed bitter misanthropy and self-indulgent misery were the only true lenses through which humanity should be viewed. Of cour...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11757157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even if curious cats sniff about for ever intenser reading, I don’t know if I should go so far as to promote a book that hisses, fizzes, pops and spits at you.  Such seething pages could blow up in the hands of the unsuspecting. I’ll say only that this snarling commentary on human nature isn’t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40622322">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book I would choose if I could keep only one book. Witnessing World War I, Celine understood what entering the modern era meant, and the writing it required. <br/>	Bardamu, the main character, is simultaneously cynical and caring, kind and criminal. He contains the contradiction of cruelty and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27282041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Where to start? Probably at the beginning. The edition I picked is not the one I read (mine was in Dutch), but it WAS the edition that got me to reading it in the first place. <br/><br/>What happened? Well, when I was walking around in Amsterdam many years ago, I heard a soprano voice singing abov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26460959">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book, Céline's Journey to the End of the Night, is the most unremittingly misanthropic novel I have ever read, and yet it sinks so gloriously, writhingly down to the bottom of all human striving—simultaneously removed from and embroiled in it by the great acid of its indiscriminate loathing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7337218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most scabrously funny books ever written. Celine writes with a slashing cynical style that never fails to make me laugh although I will admit that this book is too long; it should end on page 203 because everything after that is redundant. But even with that it's a fantastic book....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20058178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Journey to the End of Night is like a &quot;hero's journey&quot; story but our hero, Ferdinand Bardamu, is kinda an asshole, but he's not unsympathetic. Bardamu starts by joining the French military and fighting in a war, then travelling to Africa, then on to America (New York and Detroit), then bac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22925479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's possible that i'm just too dumb to appreciate the gritty, nasty, bitter taste of existing (not existence, mind you, but existing). celine's incredibly beautiful writing didn't make it any more palatable. pieces of this stuck with me and made my stomach churn, but i could only take so much self-...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4803769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[لحظه هایی هست که تنهای تنها می شوی و به آخر هر چیزی که ممکن است برایت اتفاق بیفتد نی رسی . این آخر دنیاست . خئد غصه , غصه  تو دیگر جوابگویت نیست و باید به عقب برگردی , وسط آ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19950431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Way funnier than I remember from an earlier reading (about ten or so years ago). It's clear from the first 100-or so pages that Henry Miller ripped off his best stuff from this. Imagine a way more nihilistic Tropic of Cancer and you get the idea. Perhaps it's the new translation, but his voice is so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12925922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Луи-Фердинанд Селин фигура одиозная. Писатель, своим дебютным романом &quot;Путешествие на край ночи&quot; определивший гедонистическо-циничную литературу XX века. Прив...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53691124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a re-read for me -- some thirty years later. Celine really started something with JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT: His Ferdinand Bardamu is a disenchanted traveler through life, snatching food and women when he can, mostly winding up being disenchanted with a sour feeling of bad things...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51883252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i wanted to love it. but the characters in this novel exasperated me most of the time. and the circumstances were mostly insipid. celine is a great writer though, there were some parts, sentences that just blew me away in its funniness, poignancy, style. i hope not too much was lost in translation. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/865350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[كتاب را يكي از دوستان برام آورده. شيرازه اش از هم پاشيده و شرمم مي آيد به آن دوست برش گردانم. تا صفحه 20 بيشتر نخوانده ام]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is almost a quest,but for nothing. The guy is pretty much vile a real bastard with few redeeming features. The only thing about him is his honesty. There is a passage in the book where he talks about being the only coward in France (the opening is set during the first world war). How he sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49047097">more...</a>]]></body>
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