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    <![CDATA[The Remains of the Day]]>
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    <![CDATA[The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking, pitch-perfect novel -- namely, Stevens' own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Kazuo Ishiguro]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wish I could give this one three and a half stars, because I like it better than 'Never Let Me Go', but not enough to give it four stars.  <br/><br/>Stevens is a good enough narrator, but I think he mostly just bored me in the end.  Yes, I understand that he's flawed and it's sad that he's such ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21411591">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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