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    <body><![CDATA[I just kept wondering when this book was going to get interesting.  When was she going to get out....what happened to her baby...so many questions.  I felt like the main character was one person in the beginning and totally another at the end....but not in a good way...just in one that did not make ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39156994">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the imagery in this book set in the 1700s. I grew to really like Eliza, the narrator of the book, who goes from being a naive young girl and a pawn in her mother's schemes to a woman who pushed her way to freedom in a time when women did not have as many options. The story underlying this jour...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8048065">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I started this book, I almost put it down on page one! It started out with a very graphic description; not salacious, but coarse and rough. I just couldn't imagine reading an entire book with this type of language, but I pressed on, skimming some of the coarser descriptions. I'm glad I did. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64871398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark and mysterious, and very Dickensian - which makes it weird that I liked it because I really loathe Dickens. <br/><br/>Does an excellent job of absorbing the reader in London in the early 1700's.  I felt absorbed in the world - the writing was incredibly evocative.   Think I will pick up Clark...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28253132">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's an interesting idea but not a great story.  The author's note on London of the early 1700's at the end of the book was much better than the book itself. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oftentimes, I give up on books if I'm not completely &quot;into it&quot; by the third chapter.  I was interested at first, but the interest waned in the next couple of chapters.  Feeling as if I was muddling through a place I didn't want to be, for some reason, I forged on through.  Thank goodness I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64910462">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[VERY descriptive!! London was so real.  I'm hosting my book club Halloween night - discussing WHO is really a monster!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 1/2 stars.  Set in the early 18th century, a woman supposedly married then abandoned when pregnant is sold by her mother to an opium-addicted druggist who tries to cause birth defects, like babies who are part animal, in his struggle to find fame and respect.  The woman's only friend is a woman wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65649351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I did not enjoy this book very much.  It is disturbingly and oppressively physical and gross, because it is permeated with constant references to bodily fluids and dirt and grime.  Normally this wouldn't be enough to turn me off of a book--plenty of good books deal with fluids and filth and grime, a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69801248">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would have given it a two but added on the extra star for the amount of work the author put into researching the book's historical setting and attention to detail.<br/><br/>&quot;The Nature of Monsters&quot; tells the story of Eliza Tally, who by her own admission, is entirely self absorbed and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31742602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book started off in a sordid sort of manner, and I was afraid for a moment that I had picked up one of my mother's novels by mistake, but it became something a bit more historical and a bit less smutty in time.  I can understand the displeasure some might feel with this book, but coming from the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24603196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having started (and not finished) Neal Stephenson's <em>Quicksilver</em>, I appreciated the novelist's research of  early 18th-century England and her ability to bring that period alive for me. I literally smelled the cesspit in the bottom of the house where Eliza, the narrator, lives in London and felt the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3787339">more...</a>]]></body>
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