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    <body><![CDATA[Gunter Grass, The Flounder (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977)<br/><br/>I just couldn't get through it. I can't really put my finger on why, but there it is. The Flounder contains all the things I revere about Grass-- a strong sense of history, scurrlious sense of humor, strong characters put into won...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15126234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not Exactly Sashimi Quality<br/><br/><br/><br/>Gunter Grass, I love you, but The Flounder just isn't a sashimi quality piece of fish. It's really more something out of the frozen food section.<br/><br/>The Tin Drum, the author's first book, remains one of the most white hot brilliant novels written ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18764243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very freeform magic realism, about men, women, food, pregnancy, and social politics set across every time period in northern Europe (Poland, Germany, Lithuania?). Interspersed with poems that I read half the time, but very enjoyable salad-y personal history mash-up with historic figures of the Danzi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49145376">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A man deeply in love with his outlandishly demanding pregnant wife copes with his stress by examining a different period of history for each of the nine months of his wife's pregnancy.  For each month, a different cook from inside of him is involved with his at-one-time self, usually sexually.  Thro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32537097">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Made me laugh, pissed me off, confused me, kept me company for many evenings and sometimes I just had to walk away to think about what I had read (or get it out of my head).  Definitely reaction provoking.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Love the verses throughout, esp. &quot;How I See Myself&quot;.  Also love the historical characters, like August Bebel (isn't it delicious?!?).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You say: a profound examination of gender politics deftly woven into a farce of German society, with interesting use of food politics as a metaphor.<br/><br/>I say: an unnecessarily abstruse novel about one man's obsession with potatoes.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn’t enjoy reading this very much.  The premise is kind of cool, even if it encompasses so much nuance it isn’t really describable in a sentence, and some of the episodes touched on along the way have compelling arcs, but on the whole it just feels like way too much masturbatory writi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38749903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only Grass I've read, and I really liked it. A man (representing all men) is on trial for his crimes throughout history by a court of feminists. He is represented by a flounder, who has been present, whispering suggestions in his ear throughout the millennia, basically guiding Man into the predi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8243933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Der Butt (Fiction, Poetry &amp; Drama) by Gunter Grass (1999)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Flounder begins in the Stone Age. When the flounder is caught by a fisherman, he and the fisherman travel together through the ages. Feminism, history, and cooking are all explored. There's a lot of talk about soup, mushrooms, fish, and potatoes, which I liked. But all in all, there doesn't seem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60434303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Echt schlecht für einen Grass!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a good one, my favorite Grass book, and I have read them all.  it is difficult to follow at times due to length and Grass' favored device of time-jumping, but I am used to rereading passages in longer and more complicated literature. the length and breadth of the scope of this novel is exact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3469750">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This one is feeling longer than it really ought, for no real reason. Great writing, interesting topic, funny and cruel and self aware...bu somehow it's dragging on. I maybe just don't feel like it'll go anywhere, so I've taken some serious breaks from it. It's still at three stars, but maybe falling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24208262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delicious and crazy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A best novel is one which emerges when you think a novel is no longer possible. The best novel is the one which makes you ask- is it possible to write a one on this? The Flouder is definately the best novel on this century. Probably overshadowed by the Tin Drum, but I feel as a novel the Flounder mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2299718">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned that I am not very good a keeping track of all the superfluous jumping that goes on in this radically off-kelter novel.  I also only made it through the first 4th of the book.  This is my first Grass read, and definitely not my last. I feel like his other novels, that I have heard so much ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12048070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4091541">
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave up on this book about a fourth of the way through. I guess the flounder didn't interest me, or the epic struggle between man and woman. Maybe I'll give it another shot when I'm in a completely different frame of mind.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['flounder' is pretty much right when it comes to this book: Grass either writes winners or weiners, and well... this is pretty much the worst of his I've read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No one understands the psychology of heterosexual women like the germans, well, this german, anyway. Droll, tongue-in-cheek, dry as a dust martini.  ]]></body>
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