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    <body><![CDATA[This book is my nemesis.<br/><br/>No, seriously: I've been trying to read it for almost six years.  I've tried to read it in the spring, the summer, the fall, the winter -- on planes, on the bus, on the El, in Chicago, in Baltimore, in North Carolina.  And every single time, I stall out about 60% ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5093752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[sometimes books have to be read at a certain time in your life. for me. this one was the perfect end to college. i finished this two days after graduation. after all of my friends departed for points unknown or home. i was laying in the grass at fordham in the bronx with the sun shining and with the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2205964">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a masterpiece that I wouldn't recommended to my worst enemy. It is dense, repetitive, overly descriptive to the nth degree, filled with page after page of infuriating, hard-to-like characters, and more or less moves like molasses. It also is possibly the most beautifully written, poetic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59097758">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent a pleasant couple of weeks with this 500+ page classic of American literature. I really enjoyed it, but then again I am a sucker for coming-of-age stories. This one is perhaps a bit loftier than most, and goes beyond just the coming-of-age theme, but at the heart of it all, that's what it is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25410502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was about 17 when I first read this book, and the exquisitely written story of a young man's self-discovery at the beginning of the last century made a lasting impression on me. So when a road trip took me through Asheville NC two years ago, a stop at the Thomas Wolfe house was a must, as was buyi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4693885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thomas Wolfe and I seem to have a lot in common.  We both grew up in Western North Carolina and went to college in Chapel Hill.  I felt obligated to read this and somehow I made it through.  Wolfe is an intensely personal writer and he works in extemely vivid detail.  This lead me to either be infur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/465673">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very long book to get through.  I read it after reading a biography of Max Perkins, the editor at Scribner's who so influenced Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The final version of Look Homeward, Angel had been cut in length significally, so, as editor, he had more than a few ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17066846">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like the author himself, this first novel resonates with the surge of life. It is passionate, sensual, and unsparing. Every aspect of life, from the characters' every thought and emotion, to descriptions of the natural world around them, is explored in great detail, sometimes to the point of being r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81131200">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of those books you Appreciate, more than actually enjoy.  It was written in 1926, so one can understand that the various experimental techniques (stream of conciousness, the verbal &quot;snapshot,&quot; the verbal slow-crane-shot-down-from-the-heavens-to-human-level) were very new and mind-expan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78762660">more...</a>]]></body>
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