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    <body><![CDATA[HA! I have not actually read this book, but one particularly angst-filled mid-90's summer of my adolescence I found myself next to a bonfire after, I believe, a particularly angst-filled mid-90's community production of &quot;Little Shop of Horrors.&quot; Some girl or something was around the party ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41067406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection was my first exposure to Angela Carter's great stories, back in 1989. Since I'm teaching her this term, I will shortly get reacquainted with her work. My favorite story in this collection is &quot;The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe,&quot; a metafictional trip into the mind of Poe. &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17483223">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Darling Angela,<br/><br/>Where have you been all my life?  This is the short story collection I would have written were I British, white, blonde, and (sadly) dead. Carter is a so-called postmodern writer, but with a very traditionally sick way of writing, who takes on fairytales and historical odd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7760573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Angela Carter is the darling of feminists and fans of the truly strange. Her retellings of fairy tales here will stay with you long after you close the pages.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[mysterious,creepy short stories. British writer-too talented for my taste at this time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost all of these stories serve as some indecent amendment to history that will forever be left out of textbooks.  These are histories I want to believe.  They seem to belong to another time, not the 20th Century, and they are all somewhat cruel, indeed making strangers out of saints and vice vers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28153227">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first story in this collection is one of the most atmospheric things I have ever read. An account of the events (and the setting) of (and a certain amount of background information leading up to) the day Lizzie Border's father and stepfather were---well, you know the story. Angela Carter. God kn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9485531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Eight stories in this slim collection, and while you'll need to be in a bit of a fanciful mood to engage with some of them, the best showcase wonderful, sardonic wit in a prose style truly Carter's own.  Go for &quot;The Fall River Axe Murders,&quot; an interesting why-dunnit about Lizzie Borden, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14452262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Angela Carter is a dark god who simultaneously scares the crap out of me and makes me want to invite her over for tea.  The first story, &quot;The Fall River Axe-Murders&quot; about Lizzie Borden and the stifling oppression of women (specifically &quot;old maids&quot;) in a puritanical/ patriarchica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28543948">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My reaction to this book was visceral.  Carter has a tremendous ability to render scenes and settings in a manner that gets deep into a reader's subconscious.  I actually awoke the night after I finished the book terrorized by her rendering of the oppressive heat, decay and stagnation in which middl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33491215">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Fall River Axe Murders,&quot; Carter's first story in the collection, set my head on fire. Her reworking of classic narratives is done with such a keen intelligence and a great deal of lyricism. My first encounter with her work, this was a pleasurable challenge to read. What a terrible los...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29628977">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you ever wanted to be in Lizzie Borden's head and understand exactly why she gave out those 40 whacks. . .The Fall River Axe Murders in Saints and Strangers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorites were &quot;The Fall River Axe Murders&quot; and &quot;Peter and the Wolf&quot;.<br/>Doesn't touch or come close to&quot;The Bloody Chamber&quot;, but worth reading.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent retellings of fairy tales and other famous stories. My favorite is the short story based on the Lizzie Borden murders.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i only read one story in this collection  but it was one of the best I have ever read]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Lizzie Borden story is one of my very favorite stories. Five stars just for that.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Also lovely.  The tale of Baudelaire's mistress was tremendous.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[No BLOODY CHAMBER, but still pretty champion.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[peter &amp; the wolf!]]></body>
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