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  <date_added>Tue Nov 25 12:18:55 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[An optimistic Thomas Hardy novel? Is there such a thing?? Published the same month Hardy turned 32, this is, at least as far as I’ve read, the cheeriest of his works — that alone should be a selling point! In some ways it’s an exploration of the changes he saw enveloping England, played out in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38635021">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've come to accept that I'm the only person of my generation with whom I am personally acquainted that likes Thomas Hardy.  It's fine.  It's astonishing and amazing to me, but fine.  This particular sort of isolation has it's perks, though; I like to think that Tom and I are buddies - you know, sor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45309127">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3442884">
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  <date_added>Tue Jul 24 05:30:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A triangle vilager love, which is typical Hardy's. A vilage in Wessex which represents all other vilages in England 19.cent. Years after I read this for the first time, happened to see a film, named &quot;The Singer not The Song&quot; with Dirk Bogard, almost the same story, with different character...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3442884">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61673090">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was another book to movie, where I saw the movie first, &amp; I think both were pretty good. This was my first Thomas Hardy book &amp; I do plan on reading more of his works, but I will admit, going with 'the book tends to be better then the movie' bit, I kinda of expected more out of this book. I'm no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61673090">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38494058">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 09 17:12:19 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is difficult to evaluate my personal response to this book without reference to expectations I formed before reading it based upon the reviews of other people. (One of the reasons I usually read prefaces and introductions after novels and not before.) I was surprised, for example, to learn that c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38494058">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16693146">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mix one imature guy and a woman who doesnt know what she wants, with a bunch of nice small town characters more intresting than the first two and you get this book.<br/><br/>I guess women like Miss Fancy Day have been around longer than I thought.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="76406539">
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[While a charming and idyllic rural tale, this didn't quite grab my imagination in the same way as the other Hardy novels I've read. The descriptive passages were, of course, brilliantly vivid and fantastic to read, but there was too much conversation, the majority of which I didn't find very interes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76406539">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="77624026">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before I read this book I watched the BBC movie.  I loved the movie and so thought I knew what would happen in the book.  As far as I can tell, the only similarities between the movie and the book were the characters' names and maybe one or two events.  The book was originally titled &quot;The Mells...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77624026">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37547565">
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Under the Greenwood Tree begins as a humorous and somewhat charming look at a simplistic group of church musicians who are about to be disbanded to make way for an organ. Along the way the story morphed into the strange and still often humorous love story between Dick Dewey and the village's new sch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37547565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20886844">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 24 09:34:51 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 09:38:43 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This past Christmas I received a copy of the 2005 film adaptation of Hardy’s novel – Under the Greenwood Tree. It stars Keeley Hawes (well known British actress, Spooks and many, many Period Drama roles) as Fancy Day and James Murray (an unknown to me) as Dick Dewey. I shared the enjoyment of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20886844">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61849857">
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jul 01 21:18:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 01 21:21:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book for my ward book group after seeing the movie. I guess I just wasn't in the Hardy mood because I had a hard time getting into it, but it's a short book and I found the ending to be quite chilling. Maybe I'm making assumptions about Hardy's view of women and marriage, but I thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61849857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55190903">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jeana]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 06 16:24:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was untypical Hardy.  And it's not that I felt I didn't get my regular dose of tragedy.  I think the tragedy in this one is more subtle but there in the part beyond the novel that we won't read about after it ended, that Fancy isn't the woman Dick thought he was marrying.  <br/><br/>I have to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55190903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67421755">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 14 15:30:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 16:05:34 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful romantic comedy set in a rural English village at the end of the 19th century.  A new school mistress has recently come to town and catches the eye of a young &quot;tranter&quot; (freighter), a wealthy farmer and the new village vicar.  Romantic intrigue ensues.  The narrative is writte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67421755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6708792">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a singular work in Thomas Hardy's oeuvre.  Written in 1872, it is one of Hardy's first novels.  Some critics have said that his naivete and inexperience with the world and as a writer contribute to its dissimilarity from the bulk of Hardy's work (think Tess of the d'Urbervilles or Jude the O...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6708792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75285731">
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 14:07:22 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[First of Hardy's Wessex novels...quaint pastoral tale with a relatively happy ending.  Rest is all downhill from here.  I particularily enjoyed a scene of rural musicians having a debate concerning which band instrument most likeably was given to man by the devil.  (I agree.  The clarinet is a hideo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75285731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71871437">
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    <body><![CDATA[A happy Hardy novel blows my mind. The characters are not nearly as rich as in his later novels (the heroine is kind of vapid), but this is a lovely little snatch of comedy and pastoral life from an author I didn't know could manage those sorts of things.]]></body>
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    <review id="48822476">
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    <name><![CDATA[Craig]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not his greatest in my opinion--you can see the elements that were to precede his later works; seems like a bit of a bedtime story compared to them. Enjoyable, but diminished in every aspect of greatness typical of the later novels.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never had this much trouble getting through a Thomas Hardy novel, and it's just over 100 pages long. I need more tragedy. I'm glad he brought in the I-want-to-poke-my-eyes-out plotlines in all his later work.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If Hardy seems daunting to anyone, being a little heavy at times, then this woiuld be a good novel to start with. It can best be described as Hardy light, but has many oif the elements of his darker works.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[thomas hardy's usual collection of country folks and the private stories of their lives. good summer read. human nature remains constant even though modern life has us living differently.]]></body>
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