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    <body><![CDATA[The problem is that one third of the book is spoken by Oliver, who talks like the cheese shop customer in the Monty Python sketch :<br/>   &quot;I was sitting in the public library on Thurmon Street just now, skimming through &quot;Rogue Herrys&quot; by Hugh Walpole, and I suddenly came over all pe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7022389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, wise, sad - it is pointless me trying to praise this book too highly.  If fiction has a role in helping us to understand the nature of love and life and being in the world we inhabit, then this is a book that helps along the way.<br/><br/>His writing is so good, so terribly good.  The bit w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2795363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow.  What an amazing presentation of three not-so-likable people!  This was really fun to read and to talk about.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really, really enjoy Julian Barnes' books and this was one of my favorites. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Depressing satire about a newlywed couple and their intellectual snob fifth-wheel chum who ultimately swallows up the couple and steals the wife from his childhood friend. Because his personality is the strongest he's basically the focus of the book, in my opinion. The intellectual snob pal's superi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63417281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Impossible not to compare this to the recently read Martin Amis' Success, except this time it's from a point of view of three characters (plus extras) rather than two.<br/><br/>It really carries you along, the multiple POVs. It's a fun way to read. Probably to make the each main character differen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19274855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd read a couple of the author's recent short stories and wanted more. This novel did not disappoint! Barnes puts forth the story in the form of interview sessions, allowing each character to speak directly to the reader. The ending is particularly satisfying.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Trío hombre-hombre-mujer, a la Jules et Jim (el libro se hace cargo de esta referencia), pero acá en Inglaterra: Olivier, Stuart y Gillian. Barnes se anima a jugar con la forma y la novela está armada a partir de monólogos encadenados (de los tres personajes), como si le hablaran &quot;a cámara...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31257316">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite being a book about three ultimately unlikeable people, this is a good read. The split in first person narration between the leading characters drives the plot and characterization extremely well.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Barnes uses an engaging device for telling a simple love triangle story. <br/>Its a comedic novel, in the way that novels are called comedic even though they don't make you laugh, you know, the literary way, or the greek way?  The characters are symbolic stand-ins for like, the conflicting chunks o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34311530">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I came across Julian Barnes when reading a review on Nothing to be frigthened of, reflections on old age and death. Quite inspiring when you've reached the age of fifty and contemplation has become a necessity. Instead of reading this particular book ( not available yet) I ended up reading &quot;Tal...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18427213">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Talking It Over by Julian Barnes (1992)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The epigram for this book is the Russian proverb “He lies like an eyewitness.” And, sure enough, we’re presented with three individuals very different accounts of the same event. There’s a weird meta-ness where they talk about one another and say “don’t listen to him” but yet don’t t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4540234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favourite books ever.  Which doesn't mean you 'll like it of course but there we have it.  I usually enjoy books where the story is told from the viewpoint of several different characters and I also really like the fact that the author is obviously learned but he wears the learning...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32443569">more...</a>]]></body>
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