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    <body><![CDATA[این کتاب میتواند میتواند نگرش شما را به زندگی عوض کند. اگر واقعا به کتاب علاقه مند باشید، این کتاب برای همیشه در ذهن شما باقی خواهد ماند حتی اگر دید زوربا را به زندگی ق...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/926427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, people, I'm officially in tears. When you slowly savor a book like this for a month as I have, the characters' fates mean something to you. Pound for pound, sentence for sentence, word for word, I've not read a more profound book in all my days, I think. The sentences sing and pulse and it's bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44089473">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Told through the eyes of a man split between desire for raw experience and the solace and wisdom offered by books and the Bhudda, &quot;Zorba the Greek&quot; follows two men mining coal and and the simple life in a Cretan village.<br/><br/>Whether managing mine operations, cooking and eating, maki...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2868830">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kala, brilliant.  To say i love this book is an understatement.  This book opened my eyes, my ears, my throat, my lungs, made me want to scream, dance and cry.  Its a meditation on how to live a different kind of life, a life of spirit.  Read the book, watch the movie, be inspired to live.  Ahhhh!!!...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3089899">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[	The only universal experiences are pain and death.  Those of<br/>us who are lucky experience a minimum of the former and put off the<br/>latter as long as possible.  Sadly, our chances of escaping pain and<br/>evading death are not solely determined by the caprices of an<br/>indifferent nature ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81148499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have heard  Zorba the Greek  a lot but I missed chance of reading it for many years. Zorba’s speech make you think it over, what  Zorba does  ,is experiencing more than thinking! The way he looks  women ,is the strangest  theory I have heard, tragedy and unrealistic . He said :&quot;woman is som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46174739">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was ok... I picked it up in the airport in Greece because I wanted something to read and this was supposed to be a pretty good example of Greek literature.  It's a bit dated, though.  The idea that someone who acts independently of social strictures, responsibilities, conventional reason, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54787973">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[زوربای یونانی]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[مدتی با این کتاب زندگی کردم. نیکوس کازانتزاکیس به مفهوم واقعی نویسنده است . هرچند محور موضوعی همه کتابهایش تقریبا مشترک است ولی زوربای یونانی و مسیح باز مصلوب را خیلی...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7469814">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Zobra is one of the most interesting characters I have ever found in literature.  He is at once compelling and revolting.  He is like the un-PC grandfather you still love in spite of his womanizing, drunkedness, and rude behavior.  Because underneath it all is a very wise man full of joy and love.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3450678">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[عالیه<br/>فکر می کردم که عمرم به هدر رفته است. کاش می توانستم اسفنجی بردارم و همه آن چیزهایی که خوانده و دیده و شنیده بودم پاک کنم، سپس به مکتب زوربا درآیم و شروع به آموخ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70439587">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow...what a disappointment!  I fully expected to love this book, but after reading it I feel pretty spectacularly underwhelmed.  Mostly, I just think this book is really dated.  First off, all of this sort of pseudo-Buddhist spirituality was I suppose almost unknown to the western world at the time...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78703735">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[بدأت بقراءة الرواية قبل أسبوعين تقريبا  وتوقفت عند الصفحة الخمسين <br/>لم أجد فيها ماكنت أتوقع لتستحق به هذه الشهرة قررت التوقف وعدم إكمالها <br/>لعدم استمتاعي بها ولم ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68293821">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A fiftieth anniversary edition of the famous novel that inspired   the film tells the story of Zorba, a philosophizing, larger-than-life   mine owner who confronts life with exuberance and wit. Reprint. 10,000   first printing. <em>NYT. </em>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A toast to a life of Carpe Diem and the simple pleasures. The book is a bit obsessed with what a &quot;real man&quot; is (does anyone still care?) and it has a real penchant for treating women as objects.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is meant to provoke the reader to rethink the way they live their life and hammers home the message that everyone is only on earth for a short time so we'd all better make the most of it before all we're good for is being eaten by worms.  It encourages the reader to live everyday intensely...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70338502">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There's tons to say about this book. It is well written without being cerebral; like prose and poetry finding a happy balance.  It also makes you love its characters which, for me, is rare.  The basic premise of the book is the narrator finding greater understanding about life through his companion ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47959147">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is profoundly thought-provoking.  However I think I will appreciatethis much more when I'm older and can eflect more on my own life.]]></body>
    
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