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  <title><![CDATA[Bodies]]></title>
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  <default_description>Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even the idealistic young man who has come to start a career in medicine. What awaits him is a life of institutionalised cynicism, pitch-black humour and visceral sex, and soon it changes him more terribly than he could ever have feared. Written by a former doctor, &lt;b&gt;Bodies&lt;/b&gt; is a novel of almost unbearable power and intensity. It is also a moving portrait of the loss of innocence, the healing power of sexual love, and of a young man's quest for redemption in a world that's lost its sense of right and wrong. &lt;br&gt;In &lt;b&gt;Bodies&lt;/b&gt;, Jed Mercurio, the man behind the television series Cardiac Arrest, has produced an even more disturbingly authentic despatch from the frontline of hospital life.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only worth a 3 star in some respects, but I enjoyed the depiction of hospital life.  The ending was clumsily clipped, however, and kind of put me in mind of one of those crime procedurals where the gritty cop sticks his hands in his pockets and acknowledges the futility of challenging the system whi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65984245">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intense, compelling and very convincing, altho' as a non-medic I can't judge how well it reflects the reality inside the world of an NHS hospital - which is half the point of the story. The descriptive writing is superb, although what's described is often not for the fainthearted. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wry medical malignant humour.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author is a former medical doctor, and brings apparent credibility to this rather black novel. I frequently found myself wondering just where the balance between fiction and autobiography lies in the incidents and behaviour which form the backbone of the narrative. <br/>Don't read this book if ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22519159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A bit scary considering the author is actually a doctor. I imagine he's exaggerated the morbidity of the storyline, though I presume it does go on a lot.<br/><br/>Quite a good book all in all, though depressing and a bit dark. It depends what mood you're in and if you like hospitals.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well-written, moves-right-along novel of life as a junior hospital doctor in the U.K. ]]></body>
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