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  <title><![CDATA[The End of the World News: An Entertainment]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Anthony Burgess]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Nov 15 11:31:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Historic fiction at it's best. This is my favorite Anthony Burgess novel.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Feb 12 21:05:59 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my favorite novel.  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Anthony Burgess" title=" Anthony Burgess"> Anthony Burgess</a> plays with the form of the novel, involving everything from the guest foreword to the bookjacket in the telling of three interrelated stories about Freud, Trotsky, and the end of the world.  But I'm the only person I know who's read this book, so I've ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37777">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Sep 13 14:57:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[i like books that further convince me that life is nothing without culture,love, and art. i guess i'm pure cheese at heart.  (i'm also too flighty to get a &quot;real&quot;job.)<br/><br/>an all too real sense of the end of the world, with global climate change and a force too big even for the good...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4739969">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is my favorite Anthony Burgess book.  My husband and I like to quote it to each other.<br/><br/>Since I read a lot of science fiction, I tend to be wary, and then incredibly disappointed, when other authors get anywhere near my genre.    But this one pays off, so I enjoy the SF elements.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35351982">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 08 18:58:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably my favorite bk that I've read by Burgess.  It interweaves (I know, I know, that's an overused word in this type of context) 3 stories: one of wch is all about Freud.  Learning about the genesis of psychoanalysis was esp interesting for me.  I never realized what an INVENTION it was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17344777">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 11 10:45:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 11 11:12:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Only Burgess could pull of a novel based on the idea of watching several T.V.'s at once, or at least only Burgess could make such a novel stir every emotion, change the way you think about the end of the world and feel like you really were watching the three best television programmes you ever watch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32614289">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, boy..... where to begin.  I read this book years ago, and it was probably the first book I really, really was excited to read, though at times, parts of it were over my head.  Three completely different stories which all tie together.  If you see this book, pick it up.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i think i liked it a little more when i knew nothing about the communist revolution and freud... <br/><br/>no, really, though, a great book, maybe just a little better pacing?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my all time favorites.<br/>biographies of Freud and Trotsky enveloped in a SciFi story. Very insightful and sensitively written and extremely funny.]]></body>
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