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    <body><![CDATA[I most liked the pieces in this collection that were real stories rather than fragments. Despite the impressive cast of writers, too many of the pieces felt like obligatory, though inventive, answers to a character sketch assignment for a writing class. And I think it was just a coincidence, but mos...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23947215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an anthology that collects the works of some of today's coolest authors.  Jonathan Lethem, Chris Ware, Dave Eggers, Zadie Smith, A.M. Homes, David Mitchell, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nick Hornby, and Z.Z. Packer all made contributions. I especially liked Mitchell's and Saunder's contributions.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36883067">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book as an introduction to contemporary writers (whom to which I may have not been introduced) and a study on character.<br/><br/>There are some excellent submissions that, although this may sound cliché will move you to laughter then to tears (with sometime the fewest of word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45129264">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, it's amazing!  I love the characters, especially Judith Castle, the uppity, overly-dramatic, manipulative Judith.   <br/><br/>Every day I go to read one of the short stories and end up reading 3 or 4.  It's addicting.  I haven't come across any I hated and only a few that left me indiffere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42299812">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This turned out to be a largely fantastic collection of stories. It's always going to be difficult to please one reader from start to finish in a book like this with so many authors and different styles and voices. But I was loving it more than I wasn't throughout. The concept, put forth by editor Z...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40650688">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Book of Other People is a compilation of short stories from twenty-three different authors. The stories are as varied as the authors who wrote them. They range from really bad to really good, to funny, to sad, to weird and two of them are cartoons. There is definitely something for everybody in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34230896">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(NOTE: NOT by Zadie Smith. Rather a collection of shorts edited by Smith.)<br/><br/>Its difficult to rate a collection of short stories by different authors. Do you rate the collection on its selections? Each individual story? The concept? I dunno. That being said, Zadie Smith decided to put toget...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31172164">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’d considered reading <em>The Book of Other People</em>, a collection of short stories by “the best writers of their generation,” several months ago. However, I didn’t get the impetus to actually read it until I discovered Aleksandar Hemon a few weeks ago. He, along with other favorites like Jonatha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25722127">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How I Came To Read This Book: Thanks to some skilled books publicity mongrels, this book showed up in a few magazines I read, and I spotted it at Chapters, and just generally wanted to read it. I bought it about a year ago maybe? <br/><br/>The Plot: Erm, well, the 'idea' behind the book is Zadie S...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25616966">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Book of Other People</em> is a collection of short stories by 23 different writers who were tasked to &quot;make somebody up.&quot; I most enjoyed ZZ Packer's &quot;Gideon,&quot; which is actually <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/oct/06/featuresreviews.guardianreview32">online</a> at <em>The Guardian</em>. I liked &quot;Donal Webster,&quot; I liked &quot;Lele,&quot; I liked the comic (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21181962">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<em>The Book of Other People</em> is about character. Twenty-five or so outstanding writers have been asked by <em>Zadie Smith</em> to make up a fictional character. By any measure, creating character is at the heart of the fictional enterprise, and this book concentrates on writers who share a talent for making something recognizably human out of words (and, in the case of the graphic novelists, pictures). But the purpose of the book is variety: straight and realism if such a thing exists is not the point. There are as many ways to create character as there are writers, and this anthology features a rich assortment of exceptional examples. <br/>Some of the writers featured in <em>The Book of Other People</em> include:<br/>*Aleksandar Hemon<br/>*Nick Hornby<br/>*Hari Kunzru<br/>*Toby Litt<br/>*David Mitchell<br/>*George Saunders<br/>*Colm Tóibín<br/>*Chris Ware]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's annoying to have to judge this as a collection, as it's so variable. The good stories are very bloody good. I love the fact that Zadie Smith (ed) included comics/graphics. The Chris Ware story is one of the best things I've ever read. The Daniel Clowes good. Hari Kunzru ace - wanna read some of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17856330">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The four stars are mostly because I am left with a generally happy feeling after reading this book. <br/>Of course, different authors' short stories means, just like everyone has said, that the quality level was different for each. In fact, the enjoyment level was clearly also different for each re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13697378">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a gem! I truly enjoyed this collection of short stories, edited by Zadie Smith. As the title indicates, Other People's Lives, is character focused, designed to act as a window into the lives of each protagonist.  The result is a collection of inspired writing - and the bonus is that the sale of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12496319">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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