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    <body><![CDATA[Riddle me this…… why is it that Kafka is praised for having a continuous theme of ‘alienation and anxiety in a bizarre, hostile, and dehumanized world’ (taken right from the introduction by Kafka-aficionado Jason Baker) but Art Alexaksis of Everclear is constantly derided for never giving up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11669642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone and their mom has something to say about The Metamorphosis.  I do too.  It's a great story.  Probably Kafka's greatest work of all.  But that's not why I want to recommend this short story collection to you.  Instead, I want to bring your attention to the story, &quot;The Penal Colony.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/740310">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suspect interpreting Kafka says more about the reader than the author so here's some insight into my psyche:<br/><br/>Gregor's family are losers.  Gregor takes over the &quot;bread winner&quot; position after his father's business fails and provides enough money for the family to live as well as...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41526537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meditation: <br/>How bizarre these writings.. I'm not too sure of what I read and what they all meant. They seem like perhaps Kafka wrote random thoughts that were actually printed. &quot;The rebuff&quot; was comically bitter. &quot;unhappiness&quot; was spooky and weird at the same time. There's n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79230146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mentor always referenced this story in the Intro course I TA'd in, using it as an example of the necessary confidence any fiction must exude. He'd say that first sentence, &quot;When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57572527">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off: I've wanted to read &quot;Metamorphosis&quot; (or &quot;The Transformation&quot;, as it's called here) for years.  Everyone knows the one-line premise - guy wakes up one morning to find he's now a grotesque thing - but where, I always wondered, does it go from there?  What does he do next...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16521036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Metamorphosis follows the life of Gregor Samsa, an ordinary traveling salesman who is transformed into a large bug. The sometimes humorous, oftentimes pitiful, and usually saddening treatment Gregor then endures at the hands of his own family make for a deeply affecting story.<br/><br/>This no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77035065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I began with metamotphosis where a young man woke up one day to find him self changed to a cockroach.  I can imagine myself changing into a crocadile at the end of this coming semester ;).<br/>I read Arabs and Jackals. Who are the Jackals?  Is he standing against his own people?<br/>Well!  I have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26988776">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everything I've read about Kafka discusses his obsession with themes of isolation. Turns out, life sucks! In at least two of these stories, however, what struck me most was the solidarity that developed between strangers. In &quot;The Stoker&quot; Karl becomes desperate to help his seafaring friend ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59470709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My boyfriend gave me this beautiful edition for my birthday in December, thank you, Moshka!<br/>This is a collection of Kafka's short stories most of which were published in his lifetime. I must admit I only was able to finish the whole book because I had nothing else to read [textbooks don't count...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52806042">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<u>The Metamorphosis</u> is one of my favorite stories because of the complete hopelessness throughout the story for Gregor Samsa, except at the end, where there is hope for his sister and the rest of his family. Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning to discover himself transformed into a bug, but instead of w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49260036">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Creo que la primera vez que intenté leer a Kafka fue en la preparatoria. Creo que fue o &quot;El proceso&quot; o &quot;El castillo&quot;, no recuerdo cuál, pero lo que sí recuerdo que leí fue la introducción de esa edición a sus obras completas. Y lo que leí en esa introducción de anonadó....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43741150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The  Metamorphosis&quot; is one of those stories I'd heard about a while back, knew I should have already read by then, put off reading for no reason, and then finally got around to, and, unsurprisingly, enjoyed very much.  I wrote an OK short story called &quot;The Third Hand&quot;, and one o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37946910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having never read any Kafka even in my late twenties, a professor of mine pointed out that he'd done a translation if I would be interested, and I was; I wasn't aware how much I was going to enjoy these stories, and the edition they're in is great for a number of reasons, but not without its flaws. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36917846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Focusing on the &quot;And Other Stories&quot; part here, as I've read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Metamorphosis" title="The Metamorphosis">The Metamorphosis</a> <em>entirely</em> too many times for various classes (and hated it every time!).<br/><br/>And now that I've finished this book (well... mostly finished; I couldn't get through &quot;Josephine the Singer&quot; with all o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25346928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a soft spot for Kafka.  His stuff is so weird, and so convoluted at times, I firmly believe you have to have some affection for the writing to pull through.  Otherwise, you are left thinking, &quot;Why the heck is this guy a huge bug - does that mean something?  I honestly don't know what's g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18530478">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved &quot;The Metamorphosis.&quot; The fact that I really identify with Kafka, and felt Samsa's alienation and vulnerability, along with the fact that his mother was afraid of him (or didn't like him), really hit the donkey in the ass. What I like about this book is the way the author...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69623563">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was nice to read this after almost 30 years out of high school. Even better to still find the title &quot;track&quot; enjoyable, especially with the perspective of time. The title can be misleading: it's about the metamorphosis of the family, particularly the daughter.<br/><br/>The other select...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41674389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i only read the metamorphosis - i couldn't find a stand-alone version at the library.<br/><br/>did you know -- according to wikipedia, &quot;Vladimir Nabokov, who was a lepidopterist as well as writer and literary critic, insisted that Gregor was not a cockroach, but a beetle with wings under his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70266753">more...</a>]]></body>
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