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    <body><![CDATA[This book is sort of a fictitious pastiche on the life of William Somerset Maugham; at least that was my take on it.  I still remember the sadness I felt when I finished reading this for the first time, not because of the narrative, but because I couldn’t keep on reading this incredibly epic story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5977201">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Earthly Powers</em> is the story of Kenneth Toomey, a middlebrow English author, and Carlo Campanati, a priest and exorcist, as told by Toomey.  The story covers most of the twentieth century, featuring members of the Toomey and Campanati families alongside a cavalclade of historical figures.  The narrat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13549403">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm loving getting back inside Burgess' seemy world - most of his books seem to be closely entwined with real biographical events. The word 'micturate' has already shown up twice - an AB favourite. Definitely literary fiction - a book about an author who's livelihood is caught up with writing a wate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53323446">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[years' long journey with a successful writer whose troubled by the flimsy nature of the literature he's written to garner wealth. Tangents include an attempt at writing an opera, and a brother-in-law who &quot;cures&quot; disease and finds himself among the shortlist of clergymen to be elected pope....]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most provocative and thought provoking books that I ever read. Burgess offers a kind of dissection of the 20th century and its ideas, through the eyes of an elderly gay author, writing about his old friend, a recently deceased pope. <br/><br/>Using this device, he manages to off...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25713595">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fictious biography about a pope and a journey through many decades including world war two.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting in places, though it's not a book I would recommend widely.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fictional autobiography.  The thread is interweaving of the writer Kenneth Toomey's life with that of Carlo Campanati, who eventually becomes pope.  Since someone in a below review mentioned that this book has one of the greatest opening lines in literature but then neglected to quote it, I'll do th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32382156">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fairly sure I'll abandon this one by page 100 (the 100 page test). It looks to be another big masculine overbearing egomaniacal novel about a Big Man like, say, I the Supreme or Illywacker or Gould's Book of Fish or The Book of Evidence - boy, there's a lot of em.<br/><br/>********<br/><br/>Yes,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7022305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A perennial favorite, Earthly Powers is remarkable, among other things, for its opening, &quot;It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.&quot; The book is a kind of fictional dual biography, detailin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24967174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a work by Anthony Burgess, this one is my favorite. It's positively packed full with story and detail and all sorts of crust. Burgess is my favorite fiction writer, and one of my favorite critics. This novel might not be the starting point, but it's definitely something to work up to--- trumps an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21918006">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A history of the world, practically, through the lens of one author.  Interesting observations on religion, power, morality, and the creative process.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good book.  Has one of the greatest opening lines in all of literature...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny and very readable &quot;big&quot; novel..]]></body>
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