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    <body><![CDATA[(first of all, this cover is CRAP)<br/><br/>I wrote some of my thesis about this book (!!!), in part on the imagery of smells in the sections describing Les Halles (Parisian central marketplace built in the mid-19th century).  Zola writes incredible, wonderful, sometimes overpoweringly detailed an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here's a mini review I did for one of my favorite blogs (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.wondersandmarvels.com">http://www.wondersandmarvels.com</a>)<br/><br/>&quot;After reading Emile Zola's The Belly of Paris, I feel like I have visited the mid 19th Century Les Halles marketplace in France. Zola's novel is based on the life of Florent, an escaped politi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75075467">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['The Belly of Paris' is a beautifully descriptive and brilliantly constructed work.  Zola's vivid depiction of Les Halles do bring the markets alive and the food descriptions are nothing less than astonishing, as you would expect from Zola.  The strength of this novel is definitely in the descriptio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66928226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book that i was required to read for an English 1A class. It was difficult become engrossed in the novel, but once I was immersed into the world of the 19th century Parisian markets this became one of the most unique experiences that I have had in my reading career. I felt a kinship with t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68862824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, but not one of Zola's best. Personal and political intrigue set in Les Halles market in Paris in the 1850s. Zola is obsessed with providing very detailed descriptions of the look and smell of various foods. At one point, the story grinds to a halt while he devotes two pages to descibing the smel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80360698">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The more Zola I read the more I just simply love his stories.I am seriously contemplating reading them in French just to see what its like in the original language.This 3rd installment of 20 in the Rougon-Macquart family saga.His descriptiveness reaches new heights in this book.I felt I was walking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66290392">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The pleasure of this book is all in the description -- the plot is pretty thin, the characters not all that engaging (our hero is so passive and dim that he's hard to get too attached to), and the moral, while perhaps shocking at the time, is threadbare now. (Just to be fair, I'm reading a translati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26571831">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Belly of Paris is one of Zola's Les Rougon-Marcquart series which tolal over 20 books.  Belly of Paris does for food what his book The Ladies Paradice did for shopping.  Full of food, color and smells, it is full of lust and fat. A better read of Zola is not to be found.<br/>This is not a quick...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59967840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's about food, low-lifes, 19th cen paris, filth and hard times- what could be better?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading the translation by Mark Kurlansky simultaneously]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This sumptuious book is set against the background of the old Les Halles Markets in Central France. The big glass and iron pavillions described here are still there, but the market abandoned for the more modern Rungis South of Paris. Florent arrives back in Paris after escaping exile for involvement...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3178930">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 14 09:52:36 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first Zola, and I have to say I liked it more than I expected. He does spend much of the novel describing the market from the shops and shopkeepers to the products and their smells. What was most striking to me was the way in which he presented his characters. While on the one hand he sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26293142">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[این اثر زولا با نام &quot;قلب پاریس&quot; توسط محمدعلی خندان ترجمه شده و انتشارات اکباتان در 1368 چاپ و منتشر کرده است. البته همان طور که از عنوان کتاب به انگلیسی مشاهده می کن...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2047266">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Zola novel. The story of an ex-con who becomes the scapegoat in the battle between the Fat and the Thin in Paris' great outdoor food market. Coniving merchants galore!! Its panaoramas of Les Halles make me hungry in the same ironic way as the meal scenes in The Grapes of Wrath.]]></body>
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    <review id="41630015">
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 13:11:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've reached my renewal limit at the library, so for now it's back to the stacks with Le Ventre de Paris. Thank you, M. Zola, for immeasurably increasing my store of obsolete technical terms and immeasurably lowering my opinion of the French bourgeoisie. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 18:26:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm reading the English version:  The Fat and the Thin.  I couldn't really get through it.  It was dense with description--not much on story (at least for the first 87 pages which is where I stopped.)]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Vitz translation, but I know there's a new Nelson translation out there.<br/><br/>This novel seemed particularly ripe for adaptation to the video game format.]]></body>
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    <review id="8616617">
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    <body><![CDATA[finally found a copy! Halfway through in a week, review to come, but it's no surprise it will be a good one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For lovers of Paris or food this is a must read.  The poor translation prevents a five-star rating.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so much good food description! I am sad to have lived after Les Halles.]]></body>
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