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  <title><![CDATA[Le Messie de Stockholm]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the story itself is gripping, and the writing has an almost magical tone (or perhaps precisely because of these qualities), it seemed impossible not to read this story as a massive allegory of the creative person's obsessive urge to create, the causticity of the ambition and the impossibili...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74504364">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was unsure of my taste for this book.  I enjoyed the inital set up of the action, the character, Lars, and his situation, but I found his descent into his illusionary world and the ultimate outcome a little lacking.  Not to say this novel is not written well, as she has great command of the langua...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44562755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll write more later!<br/><br/>But I remember really loving this book!<br/><br/>(I feel like I've read something else by her, too...But I can't remember what.)<br/><br/>But I like her.  Isn't she good?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dreams and delusions. Not as good or as inventive as Puttermesser.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was a horrible book, don't ever read it.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[waste of time]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you're a fan of Bruno Schulz (&quot;The Street of Crocodiles,&quot; &quot;Sanitorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass&quot;) then this book will at least be an interesting read. Overall, I felt that the idea was much more intriguing than the final product, but it has moments of beauty and -- somew...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11000722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[interesting, but too wordy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Let It Snow&quot; = setting in Stockholm.<br/><br/>Immensely dense, incredibly beautiful use of the English language. Can't remember a plot, just an amazing post-coital sense of having been handled by a master.<br/><br/>I've never read another Ozick book (yet). Why is that?]]></body>
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