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    <body><![CDATA[<blockquote>&quot;-Sper ca nu te socotesti superior tuturor criticilor muzicali? protesta Ruth.<br/>-Nu, nu. Nici prin cap nu-mi trece. Nu fac decat sa-mi exercit un drept. Ti-am impartasit gandurile mele pentru a-ti explica de ce zburdalniciile de elefant ale doamnei Tetralani mi-au spulberat placerea de a as...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16497312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished reading Jack London's &quot;Martin Eden&quot;.  What a work of genius.  Apparently, London meant the book as an attack against individualism and his disappointment with &quot;success&quot;, but I, like a lot of other struggling writers, choose to see it as a rallying cry for those of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11744412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book pretty late, this summer,at the age of 26, upon a friend's high recommendation.<br/>I always thought it was written with a high passion about the developments of the era. There are books which are able to change your whole view of life when you read them as a teenager, this one is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7006933">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a great insight into the working class/leisure class divide of the late 19th and early 20th century.  martin eden is a hard working sailor who becomes consumed by the desire for beauty and knowledge in a stiffly stratified san francisco of the early 20th century.  i need to finish this.  it is jack ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2307972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I've ever read. A remarkable attempt by Jack London in dissecting a person's evolution of being as they happen upon the path of enlightenment. Martin Edin (M.E.--a hint at the author's identification with the hero?) is a roughneck sailor who is blinded and transformed b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72340752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story by one of the best story tellers!   It was tremendously impacting reading for me.  I believe this should be required reading for anyone with aspirations of becoming an author or an artist in any genre.  Some say this story is partially auto-biographical.  <br/><br/>It is an amazing sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65992546">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for this book because it depicts a man's strive for self-excellence, gaining awareness, and heightened observation partially inspired by an intelligent woman (muse). Martin Eden is a man of adventure and of the sea, he lives in San Francisco and falls in love with the daughter of a Berk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4211300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of a young seaman, Martin Eden is a loosely autobiographical story of London – a working class boy who through incredible personal drive became an internationally acclaimed writer. <br/><br/>The drive to succeed, to be respected and part of the bourgeoisie, eventually leads Eden to dis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62212320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A well written and thought provoking book about a working class sailor, who propels himself to an affluent social status, after vigorous, or even obsessive, self study.  The book is fascinating because it is semi autobiographical.  The very idea of any person subjecting them to self study (sleeping ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57613056">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first adult novel I fell into.  I was 12 or 13, and it colored my perspective for many years.  It is essentially nihilistic, and it is no surprise that London was an alcoholic.  It makes an excellent case for the meaninglessness of this world - but that's as far as it can go.  The booze ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19441080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book that I first read in high school and has just stuck with me over the years. Tragic tale of an uncouth sailor who educated himself and became a famous writer. Often looked at as an autobiographical tale by London, this story has continued to show it's worth 13 years after I first read it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[utterly devastating....makes me want to read some bios of Jack London himself...echoing what my old boss said: it's must reading for all college-age males, for to protect them from what they are about to learn:-)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a great book. This was my favorite book for 1o years or so. It is quite slow for the first 1/3 of the book, but it makes the final 2/3 of the book that much more rewarding when you get to it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favourite books!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Martin Eden is unquestionably one of the most powerful novels I have read.  The book tells the tale of a young sailor, Martin Eden, as he for the first time comes in contact with the upper-class and the refined culture associated with it.  We see his struggles to improve himself, to educate himself,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29066510">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because of the Twilight Singers song &quot;Martin Eden&quot;.  I'm no closer to understanding either.<br/><br/>First, a technical note: I read the B&amp;N Mobipocket edition, which was a complete waste of $3, in my opinion.  I've since discovered that Project Gutenberg has what appears to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18447523">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Jack London's greatest book. Forget Call of the Wild and White Fang. Martin Eden is without a doubt the best that Londan has to offer. A psuedo-auto biography, London portrays himself as a self-taught sailor, self-avowed socialist and a man's man. He drinks and brawls with longshoremen and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11892471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this shortly after reading &quot;White Jacket&quot; by Herman Melville. Certainly came away from reading this with the impression that Melville is the superior writer. I guess that's not really in question.<br/>As an Oaklander, I take issue with the Amazon comment above that says this book tak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961921">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most influential books in my life. <strong>Jack London</strong> crafted young <em>Martin Eden&lt;/i&lt; after himself, a rough and scruffy idealist trying to pull himself up from streets of Oakland CA at the turn of the last century. I found the book to be a page turner, although the language is straightforwa...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13863868">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of those totally absorbing books that stimulates a whole range of emotions and thoughts about life (and death!) I wonder just how much of Martin Eden's life's struggle, and final despondency reflected Jack London's? The social comment and observation of the world and it's ways (or rather, people...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50168977">more...</a>]]></body>
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