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  <title><![CDATA[The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum : Or How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Heinrich Böll]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book and i was also pleased to decided to get throught.<br/>in my opinion, this book contains a timeless and universal lesson <br/>about the dangers of a security state and an irresponsible press and <br/>their capacity to destroy innocent individuals. The subtext here <br/>is Boll'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74932790">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Aug 09 08:08:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Prix Nobel de Littérature 1972<br/>*<br/>L'action se situe à Cologne, la ville natale de l'auteur, durant le carnaval de 1974. <br/><br/>Chez des amis, Katharina Blum, une jeune femme divorcée, fait la connaissance d'un homme recherché pour ses activités terroristes.<br/><br/> Elle l'héb...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66735744">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 26 02:21:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 26 02:21:45 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[salam]]></body>
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    <review id="33696124">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 24 05:19:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 24 05:19:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A young woman has a brief affair with a man suspected of involvement in the urban terrorist Rote Armee Faktion (or a loosely disguised version of it). Despite playing no role in political or terrorist activities, she becomes the target of a vicious and unyielding witch hunt by a scandal seeking news...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33696124">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11369475">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nora]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 04 21:28:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed 'The Clown' by Boll, and like 'Katharina Blum', I read the Clown while visiting my folks.  Only that was in August, when the sun and the humidity frizzed and dampened me.  Katharina, I began and finished during two ten degree days while chewing and kneading my lips, which are now as raw as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11369475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37333966">
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    <location><![CDATA[Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 10 10:36:04 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 11 22:20:40 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book pissed me off!! Not Mr Heinrich Böll... not his language... not the story. The damn press that is the central 'bad guy' in this book! Böll did an excellent job presenting his case. I could feel his anger, his disdain. It was tangible. And did I mention... it pissed me off? I think I woul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37333966">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11096048">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ernie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New Orleans, LA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 27 12:15:50 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 15 12:38:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a quick read, and it was actually quite interesting.  Heinrich Böll wrote the book originally in German in 1974 when tabloid obsession with the Red Army Faction was in full swing in Germany.  His novel is a character study of an innocent woman as she is investigated for a crime and subsequ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11096048">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="50544762">
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    <name><![CDATA[M.B.]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 26 14:49:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 14:52:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this. Read it in one sitting as it's more novella-size than novel-size. On the whole I thought it was very good - excellent characterization for example, particularly the well-drawn employers of Katharina Blum - but that the novel needed to be longer for fuller effects to be felt. Slightly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50544762">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="53928017">
    <user id="1709042">
    <name><![CDATA[Charles-Antoine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[France]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Apr 25 10:38:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Comme mon fiston avait ce livre à lire (en Français) de ce prix Nobel de Littérature, je me suis dit que je ne pouvais pas passer à côté... (surtout compte-tenu de la finesse du livre).<br/>Le sujet est grave (d'autant qu'il a touché personnellement l'auteur) mais le style est peu agréable.]]></body>
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    <review id="72304970">
    <user id="1045275">
    <name><![CDATA[Natasha]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pemberton, NJ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Sep 25 20:42:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a terrible example of what the mass media/press can do to a person and how they take what people say all out of context. It's no surprise that Katharina could be driven to kill a reporter. The story was pretty boring and laid out all the facts with no feeling or inflection to them.]]></body>
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    <review id="39262315">
    <user id="1621674">
    <name><![CDATA[Christine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 08 19:33:05 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the narrative voice used to tell the story because it complements Boll's overall purpose in showing the damaging effects of the media.  At the end when the audience finally hears from Katharina, I'm not sure that she has been painted as an overly sympathetic character.]]></body>
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    <review id="61946817">
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    <name><![CDATA[rachael]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 16:34:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 13 12:28:58 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[a good solid book by one of the great german authors of the 20th century. definitely enjoyable, definitely informative, although the author makes a point to inform in a very subtle and ambiguous way, while at the same time using the 3rd person narrator and a few of the main characters to inform (lit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61946817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41328577">
    <user id="863686">
    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jan 15 17:15:56 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick, deft. An interesting way to tell the story. The critique of media culture may not be quite as fresh as it once was, but this is still a nice swift read.<br/><br/>I haven't read any other Boll, but I now intend to. (Recommendations? Maybe _Billiards at Half-Past Nine_?)<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="24479246">
    <user id="945216">
    <name><![CDATA[Heather]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Budd Lake, NJ]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another classic from German postwar author Heinrich Böll, this story is true to its (full) title. Beginning with her admittance of a crime, the tale is told in reverse, revealing exactly how it is that Katharina’s honor was lost, why and how the violence began, and where it led. Although the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24479246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42429025">
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    <name><![CDATA[Gloria Suzie]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I once had a roommate who had an inexplicable obsession with this author.]]></body>
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    <review id="74900832">
    <user id="2851491">
    <name><![CDATA[Daninha]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Vale a pena. Suspense e drama de uma mulher com uma coragem invulgar.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74900832]]></url>
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    <review id="66925707">
    <user id="202331">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Kraków, Poland]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Książka średnia. Podobał mi się podział na krótkie mini-rozdziały. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read for a German course towards the end of college.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[1974 short novel from a German Nobel prizewinner written in very short chapters recorded as if from police or legal transcripts or investigative reports involving the murder of a tabloid-like journalist by a young woman--having been defamed by the journalist in his newspaper--under investigation for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22816757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I read two or three of Boll's books, but this is the only one I have much memory of, partly I guess because it involved the sins of the tabloid press and came closer to the bone for me. Katharina Blum becomes the victim of innuendo in Germany when her romance with someone accused of being a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5248761">more...</a>]]></body>
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