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    <body><![CDATA[Strange to rate a play, I suppose. That's really my only hesitance at rating it higher. I loved it. Hilarious, with lots of tasty dialogue and some great twists and turns along the way.<br/><br/>Highly recommended. I'm going to blaze through some more of these.<br/><br/>(McDonagh wrote _The Pill...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55382753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on a bit of a McDonagh kick at the mo (along with vampires) though McD falls into &quot;work&quot; (aka current paper on representations of terrorism in Irish literature) category. This was all right, not one of his best in my view (and has little to do with terrorism) --a cripple tries to get a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19579897">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[McDonagh aims for the jugular and never holds back. But there's Irish sweetness and humor amid the cruelty. My favorite contemporary playwright. <br/><br/>Full review on my blog: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://livingonthegreenline.blogspot.com/2009/08/martin-mcdonagh-takes-his-tea-black.html" title="http://livingonthegreenline.blogspot.com/2009/08/martin-mcdonagh-takes-his-tea-black.html">http://livingonthegreenline.blogspot.com...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[hmmm.  What I've learned from this book...  cats explode?  Martin McDonagh's brain is a very scary place?  This book is disturbing, violent, and hysterically funny.  I adore this guy, I just wish everything didn't get so blood-splattered.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Different but still dark. Not what i expected although it did follow form in having a well laid out twist at the end.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all of McDonough's plays, The Cripple of Inishmaan made me really uncomfortable. His writing is brilliant, but the characters are brutal when speaking to (or about) the boy cripple. As dark as the play was at times, it was still hilarious and it made me want to either direct or be in the play A...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22502653">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the original production of this in New York at the Public, and that production came back to me as I read. Like McDonagh's other work, the violence is shocking but somehow right, and usually funny (though I never know how to feel about myself for laughing, and that is surely the playwright's ai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16283503">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very depressing insight into the rugged island life of some poor Irish boggers. Breaks my heart into a thousand soggy peat moss shards. <br/><br/>Hope your spirits are stable and steady if you plan to delve into this Irish dirge. But, admittedly a great story. It helps if you have some prior kno...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2673979">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The plot of this play is only superceded by its bitter, biting language.  The characters are lovable and malevolent, and at least deep enough that you don't feel like it's a sitcom.  And the ending might crush your soul a little.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ditto my review of  The Lieutenant of Inishmore RE the author's gifts to you.  A better book to start with if written violence makes squeamish, but you'll end up reading the other, anyway, after this.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very good, but not as solid as his other works. Nonetheless, everything McDonagh writes has some of the most brilliant dialogue you are likely to hear anywhere.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bound to be funnier on the stage than it is on the page, but even so it doesn't seem the equal of <em>The Pillowman</em> or even <em>Lieutenant of Inishmore</em>.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahhhhhhhh! This is another example of the great McDough showing life at its most painful and ironic.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I kind of forgot how to read plays - not sure this is where I should have started up.]]></body>
    
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