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    <body><![CDATA[Diambil dari <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://s1lverh4mmer.multiply.com/reviews/item/7">review gw di multiply.</a><br/><br/>Tagline buku ini adalah &quot;kisah cinta yang tidak biasa&quot;. Dan emang bener, cerita-cerita di kumpulan cerpen ini adalah cerita yang tidak biasa. Kadang-kadang bikin gw bertanya-tanya, ini cinta atau cuma sekedar hubungan emosi antara dua manusia?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35357390">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic example of a book that sat on the “currently reading” shelf for so long, because it doesn’t lend itself at all to a cover-to-cover read, even by the standards of short story collection.  Though the stories are thematically organized into four general categories (Riviera Stories, Wart...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8984839">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A few of the stories were able to do the Calvino trademark &quot;oh this is nice, oh my god, whoa&quot; thing - but not as many of them or as frequently as in some of the other works.  They are more character sketches than situational sketches, and as such, they broil for longer but flash less often...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34820601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Difficult Loves</em> isn't my favorite Calvino collection.  I think the stories are more subtle, entering into the nuances of small or concise events, rather than exploring or exploding the strangeness of them; and it isn't as weird as, say, <em>Cosmicomics</em> or <em>Invisible Cities</em>, both of which I loved.  Howeve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56060024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So on the back cover of this book, John Gardner's blurb calls Italo Calvino &quot;one of the world's greatest fabulists.&quot; But I think that's really a jab coming from John Gardner. After all, he's the man who said that &quot;The Grapes of Wrath&quot; was a Steinbeck's biggest failure. I wonder w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78049831">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm only in the middle of the book, but even if the rest of the  stories are complete duds, it still deserves five stars!<br/><br/>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br/><br/>The rest of the stories confirmed my opinion of this collection. The only other Calvino I've been able ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24199412">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the first group of stories didn't grab me. 'war stories' was better, and 'post-war stories' was great. by the last set, it was full-on mr-palomar-style meticulous narratives of thought processes. great stuff. check it out for sure, especially if you like mr palomar, and skip ahead if you're not into...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52891730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another worthwhile collection of stories from Calvino. In comparison to <em>Cosmicomics</em>, this collection is not very fantastical and slightly more uneven. However, each section (&quot;Riviera Stories&quot;, &quot;Wartime Stories&quot;, &quot;Postwar Stories&quot;, and &quot;Stories of Love and Lonelines...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74765421">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Calvino is one of my favorite favorite authors, but this is not my favorite favorite book. That being said, the final section, Stories of Love and Loneliness, is delightful, sad, inventive, well worth the read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Edit 2: I don't foresee myself finishing this anytime soon.  So it goes back up on the shelf for now, although I'm really enjoying it.<br/><br/>Edit: Bought it recently and trying to finish it within the next few weeks before I possibly lose most of my free time to new classes and challenges when ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20835824">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[All i've read so far by Calvino and I really enjoyed it.  It struck me as the kind of book that should really be studied as a example for bettering one's form.  His word choices seem incredibly enlightened.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not surprising that after the disappointment of <em>Cloud Atlas</em> I'd turn to the master...<br/><br/>****<br/><br/>Er, well, as much as I love Calvino, this turned out to be not at all what I wanted to be reading right now.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What is there to say about Calvino...other than, Genius! Having read these stories some time ago, I am currently reading this in Italian. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite short story collections from Calvino. Reading it is like eating a warm, fresh loaf of bread that fills you up.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[giving this book only two stars breaks my heart a little. i think calvino is just brilliant and love those of his novels that i've read pretty intensely, but his style doesn't quite translate to briefer pieces in a way that's satisfying for me. i like my short stories nice and punchy. anyway, these ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31909617">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Classic Calvino. I love this book.]]></body>
    
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