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    <body><![CDATA[I come across her books from time to time and always think it's odd I've never read anything..so..we'll give it a go at some point.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An acquired taste.  But once acquired, savoured.  I am wondering what it would be like to read in french]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My boss' wife adores Colette, cannot say enough about her greatness.  In part, I am not easily engaged by her sort of dreamy post nineteenth century female style.  I expected to be drawn in by the sexually liberated woman I think she was.  I was somewhat intrigued by elements of the world she create...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24706373">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of reminiscings by Colette reminded me of an out-of-print collection of erotic stories by Anais Nin, but without the erotic charge that runs through almost all of Nin's writing. Colette has the 'grande-dame' voice of a woman who believes she has seen much, and just like the title, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34444412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book is probably better than my experience reading it.  at less than 200 pages, it took me about 3 weeks to read it.  i dunno, i just couldn't get into it.  the episodic nature of colette's storytelling didn't really lend itself to edge of your seat reading, and the subject matter (the various ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3081186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just re-read this book after reading Judith Thurman's wonderful biography of Colette.  It was great to read it in that context and I feel like I got a lot more out of it on this second reading than I did the first time around.  I knew more about Colette's personal histories with the subjects she e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11998928">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A melancholy examination of transgressive sexuality in late 19th/early 20th-century France. Frustratingly oblique in places. Most interesting for its musings on gender roles; Collete's ideas about gender are far from those of either her more conservative contemporaries or her feminist/queer-theory h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1038140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't be fooled by the main description.  This book is self-absorbed and dripping with sentimentalism.  The majority of it is a description of social impressions and emotional reactions.  Very airy stuff without much substance.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Maybe I should have read Colette before Anais Nin, but I'm in the mood for more erotica and this isn't it! I do love Colette, though, so I'm finishing this one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Colette was pretty ambivalent about lesbians, in spite of her androgyny.  It shows.  But it's interesting to hang out in her world a while.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Colette deemed this her favorite of all the books she wrote--a series of essays on unusual love affairs between improbably characters.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mijn review staat hier:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kristien.filosofie.be/index.php?/archives/79-Boek-Le-pur-et-limpur.html" title="http://kristien.filosofie.be/index.php?/archives/79-Boek-Le-pur-et-limpur.html">http://kristien.filosofie.be/index.php?/...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[there were obvious things i disagreed with in the book.  but i do like the idea of living back in the day.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[fine prose for those who nurse opiate fantasies.  perfect pairing: read book, then watch mccabe and mrs miller.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for a class.  It wasn't bad, really. Sometimes it's hard to follow, thought.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a chore to finish this book. The words just didn't grab me. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SPICY, SAUCY.....salacious...with shades of sapphic...i'm only in chapter 5! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first introduction to Colette and her Paris.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost little intimate essays...lovely]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Il faut le lire plus d'une fois.  ]]></body>
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