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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:21:37 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Orhan Pamuk's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://themuseumofinnocence.com/">latest novel </a>is the best kind of erotic writing: suffused with loss and painfully light, and reminiscent of both Proust and Kundera in its psychological acuity, in its chronicling of the desperation and anguish of longing (like those other two authors, Pamuk paints its stubbornness and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Orhan%20Pamuk's%20%3Ca%20href=%22http:%2F%2Fthemuseumofinnocence.com%2F%22%3Elatest%20novel%20%3C%2Fa%3Eis%20the%20best%20kind%20of%20erotic%20writing:%20suffused%20with%20loss%20and%20painfully%20light,%20and%20reminiscent%20of%20both%20Proust%20and%20Kundera%20in%20its%20psychological%20acuity,%20in%20its%20chronicling%20of%20the%20desperation%20and%20anguish%20of%20longing%20(like%20those%20other%20two%20authors,%20Pamuk%20paints%20its%20stubbornness%20and%20perversity,%20but%20not%20its%20energy).%20Moreover,%20the%20novel's%20central%20conceit,%20of%20a%20narrator%20showing%20readers%20around%20a(n)%20(impossible%3F)%20museum%20(dedicated%20to%20the%20woman%20the%20narrator%20has%20loved%20and%20lost,%20and%20comprised%20of%20objects%20associated%20with%20her%20in%20the%20narrator's%20mind),%20and%20providing%20the%20very%20context%20that%20museum%20visitors%20are%20typically%20bereft%20of,%20perhaps%20does%20nothing%20so%20much%20as%20demonstrate%20the%20impossibility%20of%20ever%20fully%20accounting%20for%20any%20object,%20of%20completely%20exhausting%20its%20meaning%20and%20significance.%20And%20doubly%20so%20where%20the%20context%20is%20lust,%20love,%20the%20spectrum%20of%20the%20erotic%20--%20each%20object%20is%20simply%20charged%20with%20too%20much%20meaning%20for%20one%20to%20do%20justice%20to%20it,%20and%20to%20the%20secret%20it%20testifies%20to...">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:40:02 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2128545.De_quoi_Sarkozy_est_il_le_nom_">De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom ? (Broché)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/118587.Alain_Badiou">Alain Badiou</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:39:22 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/960575.Madame_Bovary">Madame Bovary (Mass Market Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1461.Gustave_Flaubert">Gustave Flaubert</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6904230-ailleurs-entretiens-avec-jean-louis-ezine">Ailleurs - Entretiens avec Jean-Louis Ezine (Nobel Prize Literature 2008) (French Edition)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/65633.Jean_Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl_zio">Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 2 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3071337.L_Africain">L'Africain (Broché)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/65633.Jean_Marie_Gustave_Le_Cl_zio">Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio</a>]]></action_text>
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71006.Three_Novels_of_Ancient_Egypt_Khufu_s_Wisdom_Rhadopis_of_Nubia_Thebes_at_War">Three Novels of Ancient Egypt Khufu's Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War (Everyman's Library (Cloth))</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3657.Naguib_Mahfouz">Naguib Mahfouz</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:53:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Mahfouz's three novels on ancient Egypt aren't especially distinguished in terms of  theme or depth (the first was published in 1939; the last in 1944, when Mahfouz was not yet thirty-three).  But they are marked out for genius by Mahfouz's ability to render a completely plausible Egypt for his read...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Mahfouz's%20three%20novels%20on%20ancient%20Egypt%20aren't%20especially%20distinguished%20in%20terms%20of%20%20theme%20or%20depth%20(the%20first%20was%20published%20in%201939;%20the%20last%20in%201944,%20when%20Mahfouz%20was%20not%20yet%20thirty-three).%20%20But%20they%20are%20marked%20out%20for%20genius%20by%20Mahfouz's%20ability%20to%20render%20a%20completely%20plausible%20Egypt%20for%20his%20reader,%20to%20the%20point%20where%20one%20doesn't%20feel%20one%20is%20reading%20historical%20novels,%20but%20novels%20set%20in%20the%20only%20time%20that%20is.%20%20These%20three%20are%20as%20close%20as%20the%20novel%20gets%20to%20the%20timeless%20art%20of%20the%20storyteller.%20">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 4 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50365.A_Suitable_Boy_A_Novel">A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Perennial Classics)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/28345.Vikram_Seth">Vikram Seth</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:40:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:43:32 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I read it last year.  I liked the book, but didn't think it was all that (i.e. vis-a-vis the high praise it received).  I like that it evoked a side of New York that perhaps often don't get much play, but I can't say I was blown away by the book itself...]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:58:40 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[would give 6 stars if i could...]]></body>
        
    
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