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    <body><![CDATA[     Like the first novels of many prolific writers, &quot;The Comforters&quot; is both like and rather unlike the writing that most typifies the image of Muriel Spark.  This novel contains much of the mischievous behavior and wicked absurdity that her novels are famous for and, like a number of her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53352140">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Caroline Rose has a problem: she knows she is in a novel. And her fellow characters, Catholic converts and renegades from the faith, have delusions of their own: Laurence Manders, her former lover, discovers diamonds in a loaf of bread and Baron Stock is on the trail of England's leading satanist.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book in that it was sometimes very dry and funny, sometimes quite shocking, and often made me feel like a complete idiot for not being sure about what was going on. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was compelling but ultimatly very confusing.It is a first novel by someone who was going to do much better work later on.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that I've been kind of drifting in and out of for the past few months. I love, love, love the premise of a woman who is hearing a typewriter and voices writing a novel in which she is a character. And I love batty British people which this novel is FULL of. The writing is light and fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48676842">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://93bcn.blogspot.com/2009/10/comforters-de-muriel-spark.html">Here's</a> my review. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a very strange book! I have not been able to locate much of a plot summary - and now I know why; it isn't really possible to do so easily. The best description I can manage would be a cross between P. G. Wodehouse and <em>Brideshead Revisted</em>. I enjoyed it as a farce, but if Spark had a &quot;point&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4768546">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Caroline Rose has a problem: she knows she is in a novel. And her fellow characters, Catholic converts and renegades from the faith, have delusions of their own: Laurence Manders, her former lover, discovers diamonds in a loaf of bread and Baron Stock is on the trail of England's leading satanist.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[So quirky! The more you learn about Spark herself, the somehow the less spunky the book seems. But so fun to read.]]></body>
    
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