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    <body><![CDATA[Beckett definitely gets 5 stars from me, but he's not for everyone. Nor is he for every mood - this book sat on my shelf for years before I found myself in the right place to give it a read. But once I began Molloy and realized I was feeling it, it shot to the top of my &quot;most brilliant and pers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9848192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have no idea how to write a little blurb for these three books (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable).  I can’t comment on the plots of any of the three because there really aren’t any.  I can’t really comment on the characters either, as they tend to become the same person in some shape o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67037400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd give Molloy 5 stars, Malone Dies 4 and the Unnamable 3, which comes out to an even 4.  Beckett's minimalism was what made Molloy (and to a slightly lesser extent Malone Dies) such a disturbing and unsettling read, but with the Unnamable it was so minimalist that I felt like i had nothing in it t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17369664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mind bending, breathless prose unlike anything else. Beckett's fascinating, disturbing, exhausting and droll depiction of consciousness - stripped of all outside contact and reference points by the time we stumble, benumbed, into <em>The Unnamable</em> - will definitely not appeal to everyone, but I found it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77364530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very hard book to write a review of.... basically a life-changing group of novels exploring death, life, hope, absence, failure, oh so many things are discussed in these novels which come highly recommended to you by someone who is NOT a fan of Beckett's plays. (I'm going to read more of h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16805657">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This review is for those who often have stream-of-consciousness thoughts in their own heads and are thinking of reading Molloy. All others continue on.<br/><br/>Read this book if your mind is on constant RSS mode, the sort of thinking where one thing flows directly into the next without pausing to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42603805">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite only giving this book three stars I really enjoyed parts of it.  I think the absence of a traditional plot in each of the novels alienated me enough to make me uncomfortable with my ability to read this.  The structure makes it read a little like poetry, a little like philosophy which make i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68199909">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[no, 'can't go on' ; <br/>nothing is quite the same after these three.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Molloy now.  No promises that I'll read the trilogy.<br/><br/>Those were my sentiments before reading Molloy.  After reading it, I'd say I'm much more likely to read them all--just not one after another.  Molloy is much what I expected from Beckett: disjointed, bleak at times, always funny...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17968893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, and that despairing pas de deux Endgame--has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (lite...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6070437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would give Molloy alone 5 stars, but I think the novels are in order of best to worst, and also in order of how much sense they make. But Molloy was really good, so I think the 4-star rating is an accurate judgement of the series as a whole since I would probably give Malone Dies 4 stars, and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5508706">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book... painful. I think Beckett was entirely successful in his aim (as I see it) to reduce meaning to it's lowest levels (that is, to attempt to mean nothing at all and prove that we can't stop making sense), to disturb and alienate his readers, and to replicate the experience of consc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42090451">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beckett is a difficult and fascinating writer.  I was introduced to him rather late in my undergraduate career, and I'm not sure I would be as enthusiastic about his writing if I had encountered it earlier.  In reading the Trilogy, one should always keep in mind the materiality of the text itself; a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/787274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Recipe for this book:<br/><br/><strong>Ingredients:</strong><br/>1 x &quot;Play,&quot; peeled and separated<br/>1 x &quot;Waiting for Godot,&quot; optimism removed <br/>1 x &quot;Endgame,&quot; Separate Nell and Nagg from Hamm and Clov <br/>1 x &quot;Happy Days,&quot; stripped of humanist overtones<br/>1 x &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20796779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't enjoy this book for reasons similar to why I hate Tender Buttons: the author tries to justify their extreme (and extremely annoying) form with a legitimate philosophical point, but just becuz a book has an interesting theory behind it doesn't mean it's an enjoyable read. Beckett's wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22962904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gabriel Josipovici had written a very good foreword for the trilogy. I am trying to get accustomed to Samuel Beckett's langauge. Though after reading James Joyce's book find this not too difficult. <br/><br/>I am not so familiar with Beckett's theatrical works as the theatrical art too. What I kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12876878">more...</a>]]></body>
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