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  <title><![CDATA[Pinocchio in Venice ]]></title>
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  <default_description>Internationally renowned author Robert Coover returns with a major new novel set in Venice and featuring one of its most famous citizens, Pinocchio. The result is a brilliant philosophical discourse on what it means to be human; a hilarious, bawdy adventure; and a fitting tribute to the history, grandeur, and decay of Venice itself.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Nov 29 08:34:26 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy this book as much as I hoped I would but a big part of it is because the language was so dense and the movement so metaphysical that I found myself having to go back because I suddenly wasn't sure what I had been reading for the past five pages.  This is one of those books where every...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9420375">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Coover comments on the contemporary moment by representing Pinocchio one hundred years later--in the 1990s.  By this time, he's an aged professor, an established academic, and in declining health.  Coover's setting the action in Venice is not only meant as an allusion to Thomas Mann's Death in Venic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24147156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 12:12:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[     This is more artifice than art, a fictional equivalent of a Mapplethrope photo. This novel is the ribald on steroids.  The book does not justify the reader’s energy output, “love’s labour’s lost”.  Even the most avid bibliophile will find the task of reading the novel from start to fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57973513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is maybe the most visceral book I've ever read.  The language is extremely sensory.  There are some obscenely disgusting passages that I had to skip over.  A good read for lovers of the classic Pinocchio tale's creepier elements - this extends them to the furthest extreme.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 27 15:07:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pinocchio gets his wish and becomes a real boy. Aaaahhhh! But does he live happily ever after?<br/><br/>Sadly life is no fairy tale... nor is this book.<br/><br/>In the book Pinocchio returns to Italy and meets up with his old friends - and enemies! <br/><br/>Coover is a very imaginative story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21119607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about poo.]]></body>
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    <review id="10915671">
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sure, there were peeks of whimsy/laugh-out-loud moments in this novel, but the constant anal/womb/impotence/pinocchio's-nose-is actually-his-penis slapstick became tiring and predictable.  Maybe this marks the end of an interest in layered language, jumbled narrative and self-consciousness, but I fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10915671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tour de force. I loved it. Bizarre, dirty, incredible, fascinating, witty...many adjectives apply. [I've tried a few of Coover's other novels, but this is the only one that WOWs me.]]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely amazing writing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[love your puppet<br/>but don't coddle him]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Odd, but pretty good.]]></body>
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