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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest, I never heard of this book before the film came out last year. My wife heard an NPR report on the film, and they used the terms Post-Modern and Unfilmable so many times that she knew I would be interested. We saw the film and liked it. I finally picked upthe book and read it, expecting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19628063">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am shocked at the drastic change of my opinion on <em>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy</em> by Laurence Sterne.  After I read it a mere three years ago, I swore I would take my MA Exam without rereading it to avoid undergoing such torture a second time.  I gave it one star on goodreads.  Having for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13446722">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="762834">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Each time I read this novel (and yes, I have slogged through it more than once) I am struck by the brilliance of Sterne. Many have recognized his writing as far before its time and indeed a great deal of the novel focuses on the purpose of language and literature and Sterne uses black pages, marbled...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/762834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="538809">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The fundamental failing of Tristram Shandy is exactly what makes it great literature. It attempts to reflect the chaotic nature of art and the impossibility of controlling it, much in the same way &quot;life&quot; cannot be controlled (as art mirrors life, blah blah). To do so, however, Sterne uses ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/538809">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77247137">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 22 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 09 15:22:37 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is incredibly tempting for me to begin my review of this famous book from Laurence Sterne – of one of the finest sentimental comedies in literature ever written – by merely imitating the deviatory style of its narrator Tristram Shandy. <br/><br/>Similarly, I could begin by making a zeitgeis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77247137">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69247079">
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 28 13:45:53 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 28 13:55:45 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder what Sterne would have thought of all the theorising about this book? The introduction to this volume claims that we should read 'Shandy' because it will help us avoid the 'rationalism' of 'totalitarianism' of the twentieth century; that we are too much like Mrs Wadman, who wants to know if...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69247079">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65777301">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But central to the novel is the theme of not explaining anything simply, thus there are explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale, to the extent that we do not even reach Tristram's own birth unt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65777301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24281984">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jun 11 18:25:22 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel was ended before it was done. And it was ended when it was supposed to be done. I love that! Shandy said he would publish two volumes every year until he died, and he did almost that. <br/><br/>People asked me the other day why I was reading something I found so hard. My response was th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24281984">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 15 14:34:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I watched the documentary by Steve Coogan (of &quot;I'm Alan Partridge&quot; fame)and it was fantastically British. Not for those who do not appreciate a sarcastic Brit's humor...<br/>I did find it hysterically funny, and wish that more people would read it. I suppose that seeing the film first did...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/282164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50476863">
    <user id="119552">
    <name><![CDATA[Lindsay]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is likely that this will be the last great novel I read as an undergrad, and as I was approaching Tristram Shandy's sublime (anti)conclusion, this gave it some added personal significance. And how fitting, since the experience of reading this novel was exactly what, I've come to learn these past ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50476863">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51881818">
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    <body><![CDATA[Before Donald Bartheleme and all those dudes who write for McSweeneys, there was Laurence Sterne. He is at once their influence and the reason that, while interesting, they will always be lurking in his very, very large shadow. TRISTRAM is a story about stories, and occasionally those stories are ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51881818">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1875969">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 12 06:06:57 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[don't read this unless youre ready to be confused.  this is an incredibly hilarious novel, but it takes a little getting used to.  read up on it briefly before getting into it.  i hated it and then thought it was one of the funniest most brilliant books ever.  it makes no sense.  its awesome. and al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1875969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66731461">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've heard a lot about this book. So that when I started reading it, I expected it to be a really good thing. But frankly speaking I didn't enjoy it at all. I'd been waiting for some interesting moments till the end. But I hardly found any! Perhaps,my fault was that I didn't dare to read the book in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66731461">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75975972">
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    <body><![CDATA[The whole time I was reading this I kept thinking, &quot;this was written in the mid 1700's, really?!&quot; <em>Tristram Shandy</em> is a testament to the fact that body humor was alive and well a couple hundred years ago. But even without the body humor, it's a bizarre book. I can't tell if Sterne was a gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75975972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70036401">
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ribald humor, sly wit, and swift satire define the genius of this study in the comic art of digression that is the “shaggy dog” tale.  To reveal that the opinions amount to the life of Mr. Shandy, and that they are mostly held by the Gentleman’s father, Walter, and his Uncle Toby, may actually...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70036401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In logic, there's a paradox that Bertrand Russell described called the Tristram Shandy paradox. If someone takes a year to write about the one day of his life, then it should take 365 years to write about that year. So, even as he goes forward in time, he gets further and further behind. Could he ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50246145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like this is a book you can spend years reading, picking up and leaving off at any page in any volume, and lose nothing in the process. Sterne is brilliant-- he redefined literary narration. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book lies exactly at the place where Nothing meets Everything, they become best friends and lough at themselves and eachother. It s a bar, called &quot;life&quot;? I think...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even though I can't claim to understand this book entirely, I think it's very funny. I love all the random ramblings in it.]]></body>
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