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  <title><![CDATA[Invisible Cities]]></title>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jul 29 17:26:40 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given the subject matter—um, descriptions of cities—I wasn’t expecting this book to affect me on such a personal, visceral level.  But during the final city description and again in Marco Polo’s closing dialogue with Kublai Khan, I got serious chills.  And to put that in perspective, I was f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65033822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10483439">
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 15 18:42:49 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Italo Calvino is one of those writers who is beloved by all of the friends whom I love most ... and whom I most want to impress.<br/><br/>So, as is inevitably the case, I sat down to read, because just owning the book is, apparently, not enough. Nothing was osmosing, no matter how long it sat on m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10483439">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29006236">
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 01 15:10:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 01 20:15:54 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As a child I remember being mesmerized by a collection of fairy tales.  I could read with proficiency for my age – maybe 6 or 7 – but much of the meaning escaped me, although I could sense, or guess, much of it. At the end, it did not matter, because I was enthralled by the images and language. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29006236">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37501817">
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    <location><![CDATA[Bandung, Indonesia]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 12 05:10:02 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 26 23:27:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;Tidak mudah untuk menjelaskan isi novel ini. Setiap usaha untuk melakukannya tampaknya hanya akan berakhir sia-sia. Bukan semata karena gambaran kota-kota magis dan surealis yang ada di dalamnya, tetapi juga karena keindahan puitisnya. Inilah novel dimana <strong>kemustahilan imajinasi</strong> bertemu dengan ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37501817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="33974711">
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  <votes>8</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Just read it!]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[I'd heard of Calvino &amp; bought the '74 hardcover]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 1975</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 27 11:27:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 27 12:25:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>8? 10?</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Membership in Goodreads has its requirements, and I'd have to turn in my badge if I didn't post something on the late-century grandmaster Calvino.  INVISIBLE CITIES emerges as the one to celebrate, though he never wrote a loser, and I'd never have a library without COSMICOMICS or THE BARON IN THE TR...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33974711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3345457">
    <user id="207689">
    <name><![CDATA[Matt]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[London, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 21 06:57:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 12 16:31:57 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>Perhaps my previous experiences with Calvino's writings led me to expect something different out of this book.  Each short chapter certainly had plenty to make me think about, but after finishing the book as a whole I am having a hard time putting all of those thoughts together in a coherent w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3345457">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5114477">
    <user id="287108">
    <name><![CDATA[Jasen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Atlanta, GA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Aug 25 17:59:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up after becoming immersed in urban planning, reading and swearing allegiance to the small-footprint, high density environmental ethics school my philosophy professor Dan Holbrook, a rancher, had so disparaged. Calvino's fabulist take on cities stresses on how cities can be encountered...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5114477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1392258">
    <user id="4629">
    <name><![CDATA[Nick]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[city planners, dreamers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 23 13:17:53 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jun 13 12:35:08 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hidden cities, thin cities, cities and memory, cities and eyes, cities and the dead - this book is a collection of ruminations about them all, and they're all the same city. <br/><br/>Marco Polo is sitting with Kublai Kahn in the capital of Kahn's vast empire, they are contemplating the complexity...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1392258">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46395055">
    <user id="1152675">
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    <location><![CDATA[Ramada, Portugal]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>3</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Feb 28 12:05:54 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sinceramente, nem sei por onde começar a opinião deste livro. Aproveitei as mini-férias do Carnaval para o ler e dei a tarefa por concluída em algumas horas, tal foi a forma como fiquei hipnotizada com esta leitura.<br/><br/>Não é um livro muito fácil de descrever - a sinopse é, contudo, b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46395055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="7006238">
    <user id="74277">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[people who hate &quot;if on a winter's night, blah blah&quot;]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 29 15:58:22 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 18 03:12:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[my father masqueraded as a jeweller, for some time, and he once showed me a small packet of blue-white paper - not unlike what one might find drugs in - containing diamonds. that's what this book is like. it's a played out metaphor, but both still awed me.]]></body>
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    <review id="71075150">
    <user id="2636594">
    <name><![CDATA[Joana]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 13 11:48:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 14 02:59:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excerto:<br/><br/>«Nada garante que Kublai Kan acredite em tudo o que diz Marco Polo ao descrever-lhe as cidades que visitou nas suas missões, mas a verdade é que o imperador dos tártaros continua a ouvir o jovem veneziano com maior atenção e curiosidade que qualquer outro enviado seu ou exp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71075150">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30137372">
    <user id="408707">
    <name><![CDATA[Brian]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 14 09:46:57 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 14 10:19:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just re-read this book after 5 or so years.  What I had remembered about it was a cool book about Marco Polo describing Kublai Khan's empire to him by describing a long list of cities.  After my first, brisk reading (it is a very short book) I didn't carry with me much else besides it being a cool...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30137372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19424131">
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Apr 03 22:12:48 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favourite of Italo Calvino’s books.  It consists of a series of impressionistic portraits of imaginary and possible cities described by Marco Polo to Kublai Khan.  The cities are all fantastic flights of fantasy but they all represent some aspect of the idea of a city, or some way of looking at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19424131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16968301">
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 04 06:13:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep a copy of this around to use in the way some use tarot cards, or willow sticks or coins to throw the <em>Yi Ching</em>.  I can open this book to any page, in any mood, with a question or somtimes simply a hollow heart, and there will be the story I need.  Each city, each description (whispered to Kubl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16968301">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3691333">
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    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[brainy types who want you to know it]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought it because i heard it had beautiful imagery and it transported your mind to other worlds etc...<br/><br/>Yes, it has gorgeous imagery, and yes, your mind is transported ~ kinda wanders too. It makes me wish I was high while i was reading it. The pace is dreamlike, which works perfectly fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3691333">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1137593">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bobby]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed May 09 23:13:12 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting and original premise. This book consists of brief (2-3 pages long) &quot;chapters&quot; in which Marco Polo is describing to Kublai Khan all the various cities he has traveled to. And every few chapters, there is a similarly brief chapter of exchange between Polo and Khan. Thus on t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1137593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Calvino's upstart artists were interested in tearing down the barriers between forms of art, and in <em>Invisible Cities</em> he made a contribution by making prose as beautiful as poetry. Herein are a series of descriptions of cities, each focusing on one aspect (foliage, architecture, a city in the sky, a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4311225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Invisible Cities has a nesting quality to it that I find deeply satisfying and incredibly beautiful. I almost feel like this book is more aptly classified as visual art that uses words as its medium. There's a lot of give and take in this book between the words and the reader. For instance, every ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9322121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[amazing, beautiful descriptions of imaginary cities, one like a spider's web, one on stilts etc. Exquisite prose.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just as good as cosmicomics if not better.  Calvino describes a fictional Marco Polo's conversations with Genghis Khan about the cities to which he's travelled, each a little more fantastic than the last, until the journeys become more metaphysical than even fantastic.  The way he launches himself h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24393921">more...</a>]]></body>
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