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    <body><![CDATA[I love &quot;The Last Unicorn&quot;--I've probably re-read it at least half a dozen times.  When I saw &quot;A Fine &amp; Private Place&quot; in the bookstore yesterday, a special re-released version of a yet unread Peter Beagle book, I had to get it.  I flew through it on a stunning day at the beach.  ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1089815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Backstory: I grew up loving <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29127.The_Last_Unicorn" title="The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle">The Last Unicorn</a>, but I had never read any other Beagle till this year. I read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11938.The_Innkeeper_s_Song" title="The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle">The Innkeeper's Song</a> recently, and enjoyed it, though I thought it felt a lot like The Last Unicorn without being as timeless or moving.<br/><br/>A Fine and Private Place is COMPLETELY differ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69181856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've tried, but haven't really enjoyed anything else I've read by Peter S. Beagle—my inner 12 year old girl just wasn't strong enough for The Last Unicorn—but something about this book is incredibly affecting. Sad in that makes-you-smile sort of way. One of those books that I would actually be a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4910973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Peter S. Beagle first came on the scene with this fable about a man living in a cemetary who talks to ghosts and a raven, he was hailed as a new voice and compared with John Updike and Phillip Roth.  His follow-up, a non-fiction travelogue about a trip across the U.S. on a motorcyle with a frie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62440977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This should be a melancholy book with all the talk of death, wasted lives, and lost loves. Yet Peter S. Beagle can inject charm into a pickle and in doing so, lifts this tale into a amazing look at our attempts to find meaning and love. Mr. Rebeck wandered into a cemetery 20 years ago and now lives ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78162855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps some of the most beautifully written passages ever.  A most unlikely book which combines a homeless man....who lives in a cemetery....is fed by a raven which also brings him the newspaper....who communicates with the 'newly dead'....and strikes up a relationship with a widow who regularly vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71134900">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&emsp; &emsp;This took some effort to get through. After a few dozen pages, I was feeling restless and bored and trying to figure out what kind of book I was reading. I check the reviews here and discovered that, yes, folks agreed that it moved kinda slow, but that the character development was the be-all of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53990233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At met Peter Beagle at Dragon*Con in 2007, a real treat because his storytelling and use of language had amazed me in <em>The Last Unicorn</em>. I had seen the movie first, as a kid, and my sister Stacy had played the VHS tape over and over and over again so much that I was convinced I hated the story. But w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35689670">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this story. I've heard the phrase 'lovingly wrought character,' before but it always seemed a little silly, but it flew, unbidden, into my head as I was reading Mrs. Klapper in this book. <br/><br/>It manages to take quite a bit of narrative space to postulate on human experience and the m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50074951">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those who are interested, there is a talking raven and chess with the dead. PETER BEAGLE WROTE THIS AT NINEFUCKINGTEEN. I am not going to get into what I was writing at the tender age of ninefuckingteen. In any case: a book about death and love, unsentimental and full of stunning sweetness. This...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9563056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[2.5 stars. I think it's better than <em>The Last Unicorn,</em> for whatever that's worth, and I suspect I might like this one more when I'm older.<br/><br/>Or perhaps not. Some of the plot contrivances seem awfully convenient, and I don't know that I buy any aspect of the ending. But then I suppose the plo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74897904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book led me back to this novel of graveyard love and friendship. I enjoyed A Fine and Private Place much more as a teen; on this read, I found myself wishing the author had tightened it up a bit. Beagle's minor characters -- a raven and a middle-aged Jewish woman ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48410572">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a real gem.  I read it many years ago...loved it then and re-read it...still love it!  Hard to believe this was a 19 year old's first book.  Beagle's book is poetic and soulful.  Rebeck lives in a cemetary....has lived there for 19 years.  No one knows he is there except the newly depar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47597588">more...</a>]]></body>
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