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    <body><![CDATA[Invariably infuriating and yet strangely seductive, this is Pound's chaotically organized curriculum of necessary culture. It's a bizarre collection of rants, Chinese characters, prejudices, top ten lists, sentence fragments, obsessions, weird abbreviations, and conscious iconoclasm. Pound gives a t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48195906">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Much of Pound's prose should be considered indispensable if you want to become a decent person. 'An ABC of Reading,' and the essays gathered in 'Literary Essays of Ezra Pound' are brilliant, and some of his social criticism works too, although you might want to take small bites of his 'Selecte...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76604378">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm slowly making my way through this'r. But it's awesome.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a litle confusing but really funny, albeit unintentionally.  Basically Ezra Pound is just telling you what is and what is not worth your time culture-wise, in his opinion, and his opinion is always very very strong.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Pound.  Excellent read along with the 20-30 and 40-50 Cantos, or all of them.  (snicker)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the nuts on this guy. i dont agree with everything he says but i love the way he says it. ]]></body>
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