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    <body><![CDATA[I love David Lodge.  Small World, Changing Places--works of genius.  Anyone who has ever darkened the doors of academia should read them.<br/><br/>So, while traveling abroad, I was looking for airplane reading and saw Author, Author.  It's a newer David Lodge, and had the appeal of being a novel a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15412857">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was more boringly written than how I remembered it, which is a shame. It doesn't exactly sparkle and crackle with the kind of life that you find in works like the movie &quot;Amadeus,&quot; which has a similar storyline. You can definitely tell that Lodge researched the shizz out of this... unf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63371441">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Timing is everything, and Lodge seems to have written the wrong book at the wrong time. <em>Author, Author</em>, his novel about a novelist, is the third title this year__following Colm T_őib&quot;n's <em>The Master</em> (**** Selection, Sept/Oct 2004) and Emma Tennant's <em>Felony</em>__to feature Henry James as its protagon...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459765">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Author, Author&quot; is a fascinating, if fictionalized, look at the great Henry James, presented here as a very human author who is concerned not only with his art, but with such mundane things as money, his reputation, and the true feelings of his friends. The story(ies) here is James's fail...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76259106">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Poor David Lodge. What are the odds he'd find himself pitted against Colm Toibin in the battle of lightly fictionalized accounts of Henry James's life? Lodge falls woefully short; Toibin is more insightful, more sympathetic, and far more skilled, which makes him the closer kindred spirit to James. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57481764">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good read for people who at least know, better yet like, Henry James. It is slow in pace, pays great attention to detail and puts you into the situation of an ambitious writer who can never quite live up to his own standards.<br/>It is also worth reading for people who write and can never ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43327358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book spurred my interest in Henry James. The writing is precise and sentences are nicely crafted. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent fictionalized/novellized biography of Henry James relationship with a wide group of friends (most notably George Du Maurier and Elizabeth Fenimore Woolson) and failed attempts to find fame and fortune as a playwright. David Lodge uses many &quot;old-fashioned&quot; language elements to wri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11850979">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First book I read from David Lodge, and it's yet another proof of the British humour. It lets us in in the land of writers, in a beautiful way, with humour, sarcasm, criticism, and realism. And if you're like me, just a foreign girl who's trying to get into the British litterature, you'll definitely...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10457953">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is part of the ultra-micro-niche of historical-slash-biographical &quot;novels&quot; about Henry James. See also Colm Toibin, The Master, which I liked better than Author Author - but this assessment is premature.  UPDATE: Lame. Returned to the library.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[meh... not as novel-y as I was hoping for. I struggled to finish this. It seemed like Lodge felt constrained by the non-fictional aspects of it; not his usual screwball.]]></body>
    
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