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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:53:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'The Three-Arched Bridge']]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:52:50 -0700</pubDate>
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'The Pyramid']]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:09:02 -0700</pubDate>
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	<span id="reviewTextContainer10913218" style="">&quot;<span id="freeTextContainerreview10913218" class="reviewText">I've avoided posting a review of this for a few days, because I'm having trouble distancing myself from the fact that it's about Malaya (the old name for most of Malaysia), a Malaya I know and love from my parents' stories, and that to my knowledge h<a href="#" onclick="Element.show('freeTextreview10913218'); Element.hide('freeTextContainerreview10913218'); return false;">...more</a></span>
<span id="freeTextreview10913218" style="display:none" class="reviewText">I've avoided posting a review of this for a few days, because I'm having trouble distancing myself from the fact that it's about Malaya (the old name for most of Malaysia), a Malaya I know and love from my parents' stories, and that to my knowledge hasn't been written about this wisely anywhere else.  It's not that this trilogy is perfect; like many of my favourite books, it's messy, rambling, and slightly random at times (the third book is probably the weakest of the three -- repetitive and veering too close to caricature).  But to my mind the whole thing more than makes up for it.  The language is so very rich and sharp, full of obscure but oddly perfect, precise words.  At its best, it's as good as Waugh at his best.  For the most part, the satire is less slapstick than Waugh, but there's still a good bit of cruel humour.  And what I most admire about this is that it's saying things about race and class in Malaya that even now, 50 years later, are rarely being said.  This is not the hazy nostalgia of Maugham or the Orientalist stereotyping of Huxley.  Where Burgess indulges in stereotypes, you get the feeling he is doing so quite consciously, with a wink at the audience.  He's not saying anything Malaysians don't say about each other, and he knows it (for what it's worth, he spent a lot more time there than either of the others).<br/><br/>Though I only just read this, I feel I must have been influenced by it.  On the one hand, that makes no sense; on the other hand, I mean, look at the title!  Recommended especially for anyone who likes my book.  This is where it all came from; this explains the national mess.<a href="#" onclick="Element.hide('freeTextreview10913218'); Element.show('freeTextContainerreview10913218'); return false;">...less</a></span>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:35:49 -0700</pubDate>
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'Jakob von Gunten']]>
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			<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/513275.Jakob_von_Gunten" class="bookTitle">Jakob von Gunten (New York Review Books Classics)</a>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:49:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		A single scene at the end had me shivering in wonder and fear, and I'm marveling now at how carefully constructed this novel is, especially because I'd had some problems with it at first. I'm trying to unravel my reaction, but it's going to take a while because I am clinging to that scene, or rather the scene is clinging to me.
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'The Diving Pool: Three Novellas']]>
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			<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1337973.The_Diving_Pool_Three_Novellas" class="bookTitle">The Diving Pool: Three Novellas (Paperback)</a>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:24:02 -0700</pubDate>
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'The Wordy Shipmates']]>
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			<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2845287.The_Wordy_Shipmates" class="bookTitle">The Wordy Shipmates (Hardcover)</a>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:23:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'Sky Below']]>
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			<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3577958.Sky_Below" class="bookTitle">Sky Below (Hardcover)</a>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:50:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<![CDATA[wmc added 'Words Are Something Else']]>
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			<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/461961.Words_Are_Something_Else" class="bookTitle">Words Are Something Else (Writings from an Unbound Europe)</a>
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