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    <body><![CDATA[This has been my second reading of &quot;The Go-Between,&quot; my first having been probably some fifteen years ago.  I was a little nervous that the book itself might not live up to my memory of it.  I needn't have been.  It is one of a handful of books that gets a childhood/adolescent point of vie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/176717">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Look, just give me a book by a Brit with two initials whose observance is all the more sensual for being somehow repressed, and set him aloose on the pre-war countryside, okay?  I'm easy.<br/><br/>The climactic action of this book is when a kid rips up a shrub, yet, I liked it.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily now one of my favorite novels. Hartley's ability to write children is amazing. This is a must-read, heartbreakingly-good.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The New York Review of Books catalog is such a great place to look for a new book, especially when you're in a reading slump;  they have such a varied, interesting collection. I usually cruise through it when I can't find something, but my sister was the one who recommended the Go-Between.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19624447">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I haven't read much other fiction from this period so this seemed like an unusual book to me. The narrator Leo, an older man now in his sixties, is looking back and describing a summer spent with a classmate at the turn of the century. The book really gives a sense of the social changes that were ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77965866">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazingly vivid book from the viewpoint of a 13 year-old-boy trying to navigate adolescence and the class system in 1900 England. This book transported me to an unforgettable &quot;other&quot; time and place.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.' I love this book - from the opening line to the closing line. <br/><br/>Going to stay with his more wealthy friend (who remains ill and bed-ridden for the better part of the story), 12 year old Leo becomes the go-between, deliverin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72090887">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A heavy-handed piece of fiction whose central message is over-laboured and faintly ridiculous. A grown man remains traumatised by an experience he had as a child, and the book goes back in time to discover more about this &quot;terrible event&quot;. Was he molested or abused in some way? Abandoned? ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71640342">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I never wanted this book to end. Its measured pace and slow reveal of the protagonist's a young boy’s initiation into adult matters was perfect. It’s about class and self image, rules and what they mean, and innocence and blindness. I loved it.<br/><br/>I was glad I read this edition which has...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66962458">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, the last chapter is utterly unnecessary.  But it really doesn't detract from what is a wonderful book of manners, with some genuine drama.  The eprigram with which the book begins - &quot;The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there&quot; - is more familiar these days than th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81517141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this a couple of times now; saw the movie when it was new, then got the book some years later from Bru's parents when they were culling.  Very wordy, told in the first person many years after events reach their climax (heh heh), it's sort of a <em>Lady Chatterley's Lover</em> but with a larger cast...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16864912">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best Hartley novel that I've read. Its beautifully written and structured, reading like a dark, bitter E.M. Forester. Hartley was one of the greatest writer of ghost stories in the previous century. Although there is no supernatural element in The Go-Between, it has an underlying gothic ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60461676">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, I didn't actually read this. I read the intro by some other guy and the author's intro.  I also read the first few pages of the book and they weren't too bad. But I felt really bad for the author. I mean, he seemed like such a sad person, and the character did seem kind of autobiographical, even...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60735583">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book whilst studying an english a level and thoroughly enjoyed it, its a rites of passage novel set in the past and is quite deep and symbolic but nethertheless a very good read .i would read it for pleasure too. cleverly written and easy to understand, although has hidden depth of meani...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59037064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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