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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who's had the Sisyphean task of reading this shares a cosmic bond: if you have, you know what I mean. This and &quot;Dear Mr. Henshaw&quot; make me want to slit my own wrists in reaction to the idea of the epistolary novel. Fucking Pamela is one dipshit of a girl, but Richardson himself is no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6854160">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lower class woman eventually marries her upper class would-be-rapist.  This novel somehow manages to be more misogynistic and offense than the collected works of de Sade.  It's also boring.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not finish this book. Because it is a million pages that boil down to:<br/><br/>PAMELA: I am a lowly maid. Yet my virtue, look at it. <br/>MASTER-OF-THE-HOUSE: Ooh, dazzling. How 'bout you let me avail myself of some of that virtue?<br/>PAMELA: No!<br/>MASTER: YES.<br/>PAMELA: No!<br/>M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44760228">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pamela is a maid who plays hard to get and reaps all the benefits!  She becomes mistress of the house and indeed her virtue is rewarded.  This books is pretty engaging. So much so I finally have relented and have a &quot;booksthattaughtmeaboutsex&quot; shelf because while there is no explicit sex, I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/949077">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[read the one thousand plus pages or just the title, which also tells the whole story]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't like this book.  My British novel professor assures me that my affection for it will grow over the years, but I somehow doubt that at this point.  Pamela is a dangerous picture of womanhood... she is largely responsible for the whole &quot;women have power in powerlessness&quot; idea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29443828">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Man, reading this book for 18th century literature was like a bad hangover except with no booze involved - just a headache. It was so very very long and so very very bad. I had to skim through the last half of the book, because I couldn't be bothered to give a damn.<br/><br/>The main character Pam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13679373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I imagine that most people today read this book to laugh at its outdated morality. Certainly, there is something funny in the premise of the story: Pamela, a poor but dignified servant girl, attracts the attention of a rich squire who deceives and kidnaps her but somehow is so impressed by her natur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5208563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ugh. I HATED this book. It's either the first novel or the first novel in episotarly (letter) form. It was one of the driest things I've ever had to read. I was supposed to read it for an all-about-the-novel class in college, but I didn't make it all the way through. I think the only thing worse tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40100879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finally relinquished this to Goodwill, but not before re-reading the scribbles I made in the covers during my &quot;The Origins Of The Novel&quot; class, circa 2001:<br/>&quot;It's like a manifesto! Serving girls! Throw off your chains and marry your masters!&quot; <br/>... actually, my professor ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76886088">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was so busy catching up on all my vacation books that I totally forgot to blog my final thoughts on this 18th century behemoth. <br/><br/>What to say about a book that treats virginity as the most important quality a woman has but is weirdly feminist in the agency and resistance it gives its per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61883481">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[See title. Whole thing is about this total bore feverishly trying to hang on to her cherry. I would have  popped it myself if it would have shortened the book by several hundred pages. Plus it gives all my Victorian friends a worse name.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll be honest.  It was a painful read.  Probably one of the most painful ones.  Would I read this for fun?  No.  Would I read it unless I had no other choice?  Depends on the seriousness of the no other choice situation.<br/><br/>I didn't like this.  It felt like five hundred pages of endless let...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73609062">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, where to begin on this one.<br/><br/>I guess I should first state that criticizing this book to death is kind of pointless in the true scheme of things; it was from a different time, with different priorities and different cultural norms. This book was a fetish for Victorian sexuality, and cle...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61148521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nobody should be tortured with this book.  I read it for a graduate course on the formation of the novel as a literary form.  This certainly wasn't one that would have promoted the literary form.  Pamela as a main character would make any feminist want to burn all reference to this book.  She spends...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59600648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ Oy! I thought this book would never end. I was so tired of Pamela by the end of the book. Heck, I was tired of her by the middle of it. And I didn't completely believe her sudden reversal. She's kept a virtual prisoner of this man who would take her virtue, but as soon as he suggests some type of h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38556045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;A fine sporting-piece for the great, a mere tennis-ball of fortune&quot;.<br/>So does the young maidservant Pamela perceive herself having been carried off and confined by her wilful and impetuous master, Mr. B., whose designs on her are nothing if not dishonourable.<br/>And yet, the asserti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26877145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, well, this sort of stinks.  I mean, it's ok and you have to read it if you want to fancy yourself a Jane Austen scholar, but don't think you're going to love it.  Austen obviously read Richardson, yes, and &quot;Pamela&quot; clearly influenced her, yes, and she certainly worked within the genre ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25188651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that people should take some time to read solely for it's historical significance, since it truly is a touchstone in the development of the novel as a distinct literary form.  Released in 1740, it created a tidal wave of what we would now characterize as &quot;media attent...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15817388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Shorter <em>Pamela</em>: in the first half, our virtuous heroine resists the nefarious advances of her master.  Though of lowly station, her wit and virtue convince the master to marry her.  The second half is concerned with getting married and impressing those around the happy couple with Pamela's good qual...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4736938">more...</a>]]></body>
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