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    <body><![CDATA[This book features perhaps the most annoying narrators in the history of literature, and it's not the good annoying like Holden Caulfield. This narrator repeats himself over and over even contradicting himself and needlessly commenting about how he writes about a girl that just makes her message so ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4450016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Macabea didn’t worry too much about her own future: to have a future was a luxury. She had learned from her favorite radio program that there were seven billion inhabitants in the world. She felt lost. But it was in her nature to be happy so she soon resigned herself: there were seven billio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11060013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;I was flabbergasted to meet that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf.&quot;</em> -Gregory Rabassa<br/><br/>Now if <em>that</em> doesn't sell me on an author, I don't know what will.  After stumbling upon <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5218096.Why_This_World_A_Biography_of_Clarice_Lispector" title="Why This World  A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser">Why This World  A Biography of Clarice Lispector</a> at my local bo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78863170">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the sixth or seventh time I have read this book and it simply gets better each time I return to it.  A masterpiece in about seventy pages.  If you only read one book by a Brazilian author this should be the one.  Not for the faint of heart though as its structure and style often prove proble...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21082595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[lispector is a truly one of a kind writer and this book deserves more than 2 stars on any rational scale, but after <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153426.The_Passion_According_to_G_H_Emergent_Literatures_" title="The Passion According to G.H. (Emergent Literatures) by Clarice Lispector">The Passion According to G.H.</a> i can't imagine why anyone would bother with this. this is intrusive third person telling a slim realistic tale about a boring nobody girl and a couple ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60608646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A história conta as desventuras de Macabéa, uma rapariga sonhadora e ingénua, recém-chegada de Alagoas, no sertão nordestino, ao Rio de Janeiro. Macabéa tinha uma vida simples e sem grandes emoções, ia ao cinema quando o patrão pagava o ordenado e divertia-se a ouvir a Rádio Relógio. Come...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62794783">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, couldn't put this book down for the whole week, it was really a fascinating company; commuting hopelessly into the city, jostled and cramped inside the tube...<br/><br/>A very thin volume, wouldn't be very long to reach the last page, but...Lispector created a truly haunting universe here. Sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61999971">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seven percent unpredictable language delights, ten percent sociocultural interest (at last, the psychology of the Brazilian urban poor is revealed!), eighty-seven percent pretentious mess in need of a second draft (bang). Prescriptive advice: axe the constant, dated, irritating authorial intrusion (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79202420">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So brief story and so many to think about it. The writer is inside of the story, as other character but just like observer, doubting about telling the story and suffering because is to big and too bright to be ignored. The pursuit of the happiness, the ideal and real life, of a young girl who just n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56968024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Hour of the Star was a short book. However, it was also one of the most depressing books that I've ever read. There wasn't any kind of murder, twisted political situation or atrocity. It was just simply the depressing story of one pathetic woman who's entire life is pathetic and depressing-an 80...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62264022">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the introduction. It is a very poignant look at what will be discussed and for me, personally, adjusted the lens of interpretation. It is a working definition for understanding the story beneath the story, though at times I admit it was a bit draggy.<br/><br/>If you do happen to walk by this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46642859">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose if I'm this blown away by a translation, I should worry that I'm missing the best things in the world by not knowing Portuguese. I don't think I've enjoyed reading a book so much since maybe forever. The narrative itself is alive around Rodrigo and Macabea and is conscious of its own prese...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43231640">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this novel several times over, and each time it's a brand new experience. This is a great first novel to read Clarice Lispector. I love the fact that the narrator is as much a fictional character as anyone else in the novel, and that he fights to dominate the scene. I love this book. It's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37771842">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eu gostei bastante desse livro, lí em poucas horas, e talvez não tenha entendido muito bem; afinal, quem também leu acha a história muito triste, já eu, não consigo fazer nada além de me divertir com a vida de Macabéa...talvez a visão de alguém que talvez não passe de um sádico....]]></body>
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