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    <body><![CDATA[From a blog post I wrote in 2005:<br/>I was browsing the new fiction section at the library and saw a book of short fiction by Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi. I was a little leary when I found they were stories he had written before Pi. The thought crossed my mind that maybe he was just cashing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7533824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>Martel's Booker-Prize winning <em>Life of Pi</em> (**** Nov/Dec 2002) merged fact with fiction, reality with fantastical constructs as an Indian boy navigated the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. This collection, written a decade before <em>Life of Pi</em> and spruced up for an American audience, shar...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45459876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yann Martel went to my high school, so I keep picking up his stuff and trying to like it. But there's something about his writing that isn't for me. I've heard that he's a perfectionist and that could be what throws me off - his writing feels like it's been picked over, cleaned up, and redone too of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55859605">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not a big fan of short stories but I loved the title story about two young men, one of who is fatally ill and the other who supports his friend through this trying time.  The ill young man doesn't really want to talk directly about his illness so the two friends take turns making  up a story abo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79434719">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These short stories were written before the better known Life of Pi, but they show Martel's genius, his turn of mind.  My favorite story in this book was written as different &quot;drafts&quot; of a letter from a prison guard to the mother of a man on death row. In each letter, the guard gives a des...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68482878">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a collection of four short stories (in large font, double-spaced, to make the book appear longer than it is) written by Martel before he became famous for his Booker-prize winning novel The Life of Pi. Four short stories that he got published and praised for when he was just starting out as ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46016116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't particularly crazy about Life of Pi, but I really enjoyed the works in this book. Each was very different from any of the others, and very different from the novel I'd read.<br/><br/>&quot;...Helsinki...&quot; might be my least favorite of these four offerings, though I enjoyed the writin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9813762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a lover of the Life of Pi, I felt I needed to read this book.  It was ok.  The book is a collection of four short stories written by Martel before he knew he wanted to be a writer.  The stories showed promise that Martel would eventually be a great writer, and there are some glimpses into the hum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52683601">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this collection of short stories (or maybe novellas) after lurving Martel's &quot;Life of Pi&quot;.  This collection was actually published before &quot;Pi,&quot; then reissued after Martel found success.  I found it uneven.<br/><br/>I really liked the inventive story that lends its title t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39475634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the Life of Pi, so when I saw this book at The Strand I picked it up right away.  It's a book of short stories, all with that familiar but mythic feeling Martell gives to his writing. The title story is about a couple of friends who fight impending depression due to the deadly grip ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7606886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    Another short story collection I just couldn't enjoy. It bored me, didn't engage me in any of the characters--it felt like that story in The Sun magazine, that, while it seems to do everything right, just doesn't have the juice of those that surround it.<br/>     I didn't finish this, actually,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67504621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ A real dissappointment to me after reading the life of pi. The first three stories just didn't leave me intrigued or lost in the characters at all. But, what really threw me off was his short essays on &quot;manner of dying&quot;. I just don't get it. I slightly enjoyed the last story about the eld...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50099901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book of short stories, written early in Yann Martel's career.  After the first story, &quot;The Facts Behind the Helskinki Roccamatios&quot;, I wasn't sure that I wanted to continue.  It started off on such a downer.  But while the entire collection is a somber one - it is full of imagination, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43288179">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three of the four stories in this collection get FIVE stars.  This guy can write.  I was blown away.  Read it not expecting much.  I figured it would be something that only got printed b/c of the success of &quot;Pi&quot; but it is brilliant in its own right.  Amazing storyteller that can tap into p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61755395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A nice collection of 4 short stories from the author of &quot;Life of Pi.&quot;  The titular story is particularly devastating and is one of those works one shouldn't read if feeling down.  None of the stories sparkle quite as much as &quot;Pi,&quot; but they're all magical in their own regard.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm now convinced that something about Yann Martel's writing style really intrigues me.  His writing is very straight forward and let's your imagination fill in a lot of blanks.  It's not filled with expressive, overly-worded writing, and I for one appreciate that.  Having that said, the short stori...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38666246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't say that I enjoyed this collection of short stories as much as the Life of Pi but they certainly were thought provoking.  He provided a very painful and human insight to the decaying of his friends health by the ravages of AIDS.]]></body>
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