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]]> <![CDATA[New Update::UpdateArray update]]> <![CDATA[Danielle added 'In the Land of Pain']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38984884 to: In the Land of Pain (Hardcover) by Alphonse Daudet
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Painful as it is to read, this is one of the only texts that has confronted me with what living in my own land of pain is like. Pain--so impossible to describe--is here acutely rendered in Daudet's notes, scribbles of desperation, despair, and the helpless void that is living in chronic pain. As someone with a chronic pain condition, I cannot recommend this tome enough to my friends and family, or to anyone who wishes a glimpse at the trials and travails bestowed upon those with constant, physical suffering.

As Daudet writes, he has "no general theory about pain. Each patient discovers his own, and the nature of pain varies, like a singer's voice, according to the acoustics of the hall....Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me."

How wretched that the only camaraderie found for those with such pain lies in that of others. Daudet--I thank you. ]]> <![CDATA[Danielle added 'Journey to the End of the Night']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39220400 Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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]]> <![CDATA[Danielle added 'The Family Idiot 1: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857']]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38985152 The Family Idiot 1: Gustave Flaubert 1821-1857 (cloth) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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]]> <![CDATA[Danielle is on page 570 of The Hour I First Bel... ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38984564 Danielle is on page 570 of 800 of The Hour I First Believed: A Novel ]]>