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    <body><![CDATA[Now <em>this</em> is how you write a gripping book.<br/><br/><em>Quarantine</em> is what you might call a novel of ideas. It seeks to give an account of Jesus' forty-day sojourn in the desert and to explain how Christianity (or, if you will, the cult of Christ) came into being. While it's not overly blasphemous, it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15565829">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A different take on Jesus' 40 days and 40 nights quarantine<br/><br/>A more realistic story on how an eccentric, deeply religious man, with strong will and intelligence, was mistaken to have committed a miracle and then gathered a following of people. Jesus in this story is not a flawless son of G...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63701998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[its funny because louisa bought me this book. and it is all about jesus. hah.<br/><br/>really slow. really slow and really boring. and i'm not all that into historical fiction about jesus.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a little slow to get into. And even when it finally did become interesting it was all over too quickly. The historical representation of Jesus as a lone devout man whom starves himself during a self imposed quarantine is well thought out and believable. In fact, the strength of this no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56351151">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A retelling of Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness I heard about from Bret Anthony Johnston on NPR's &quot;You Have to Read This&quot; segment.  It's still percolating, but I think I might love it.  Below is a passage from page 219 that feels indicative for a number of reasons:<br/><br/>&quot;But the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26104997">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Anyone who has seen The Passion and thought it a moving, accurate portrayal of a human Jesus, MUST READ THIS BOOK. (aside - I did not see the movie :)  )  This is the story of 6 people who go into the desert for a period of fasting and prayer called Quarantine. Little do they know that the unexpecte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13527784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book for a couple reasons. First being that it wasn't what I was expecting - the focus of the book is four other characters and Jesus is a presence in the background of the book, the second being the characters themselves - well written and concrete in their presence in the book, and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43018651">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a powerful and thought provoking book about compassion and suffering. While it is set during Jesus' fasting in the desert, the narrative focuses more on the other people in the same area and their struggles and dreams. I especially liked the interactions between the women Miri and Marta.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting find from a thrift shop... A retelling of Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness with 5 others joining him in the desert.  The story focuses more on the other 5 characters and their experience of quarantine. This book won the Whitbread novel of the year and was a Booker Prize finalist.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this with my church Faith Exploration group. It's an imagining of Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, but with a twist. He's not the only person there, for one thing. It engendered some good discussion, would be a good Lenten read for a church book group with some imagination.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I totally dig Crace as an author. His style is distinctive and writing is succinct.  This story didn't do much for me. It started out strong, got  muddled down in the middle and was somehow very dissatisfying in the end even though much of ending resolution is actually satisfying. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An imaginative retelling of Jesus' experience in the wilderness, though he was probably the lesser of the 6 major characters in the book. The flights of fancy in the retelling open up the text much more than, say, Norman Mailer's more literal retelling of Jesus' experiences.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting take on the forty days that Jesus spent fasting in the desert, with a cast of not-quite-storybook characters that you don't want to miss.  Provocatively heretical and reverent all at once...my kind of Bible story.]]></body>
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