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    <body><![CDATA[Best laugh ever. King David's autobiography. Must read about one-quarter of the Old Testament first to truly appreciate Heller's genuis. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Having created two classic Jewish male characters who weren't -- <em>Catch-22</em>'s Armenian/Assyrian John Yossarian and <em>Something Happened</em>'s uncircumcized-because-that-will-throw-you-off Robert Slocum -- and a much less classic Jewish male character in <em>Good as Gold</em> Bruce Gold, Heller decides to take on the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57897473">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, laughed my way through it, and also learned a bit about King David's life that I never knew.  Of course, I know this is fiction, seeing King David's life through his own eyes, but if you're like me and was only familiar with the David vs. Goliath story, then you might enj...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11749975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I've resisted reading Catch-22 for years. To be honest, I still haven't read it.  I even eschewed using the term. Probably because the book sat on my mother's dresser for nearly 10 years and I kept trying to read it between the ages of 10 and 14 and never got past the 1st paragraph.<br/><br/>A fri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2874271">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book quite a while after I read Catch 22, which I loved, expecting an equally riveting read. I was dissapointed by the rambling tangents that ran through this mock-historical-autobiography of King David. The upside of this book was that it broadened my knowledge of Boblical events by mak...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72844080">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Laugh-out-loud at times, this irreverent take on the life of David is thought-provoking, distinctive, and, unfortunately, fairly tedious.  Heller employs the same storytelling technique he used in Catch-22, introducing stories and referencing them several times before actually laying them out in ful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59922203">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for a bookclub and the whole time I was wincing, thinking of the ladies in the group who would be put off by the use of language and earthy content.  This falls somewhere between &quot;when are we going to get to the good stuff&quot; and &quot;TMI.&quot;  I did learn that if you giv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8103008">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The voice was great, and it was indeed funny, but toward the middle I started getting tired of the circling narrative. It didn't feel like there was any plot or direction. By the end I got back into it because the plot showed itself again. Maybe if I read it a second time knowing the direction I wou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57617700">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun read, especially since I'm interested in the David story lately and could recognize the many of the references (and the quoting of Song of Solomon and the like).  Energetically told, which was a plus, but the joke didn't really last for the whole book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great for theology nerds and those who enjoy Heller's classically disjointed style.  However it's so unstructured that it makes you a bit crazy by the end.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm getting a slow start here... probably because I wasn't expecting to have to read THE WHOLE OF 1ST AND SECOND SAMUEL in order to access this story--but the story is hilarious.  Totally irreverent narrative of King David (not so hard to do), by King David.<br/><br/>The really fun aspect of this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62084175">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Joseph Heller re-tells the infamous passionate pursuits, exploits, betrayal, family dysfunctionality, and wisdom of King David, as told through eyes of King David. <br/><br/>Wickedly funny. I loved this book!! Although if you don't know your Bible too well, a lot of allusions and references will g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30767769">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Joseph Heller's powerful, wonderfully funny, deeply moving novel is the story of David -- yes, King David -- but as you've never seen him before. You already know David as the legendary warrior king of Israel, husband of Bathsheba, and father of Solomon; now meet David as he really was: the cocky Je...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10908723">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up because I loved Catch 22 and it was cheap, so why not try another Joseph Heller novel.  It was occasionally funny, but I certainly wasn't laughing out loud, and it was very long for how (not) funny it was.  I forced myself to finish it because I'm developing a habit of not finishing...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34450306">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book, to bits. It's hilarious, witty, clever, historically interesting and most of all eye-opening. I don't know how King David is taught about to christians, but when I was taught about him in junior high even the teacher gave us amusing looks over the whole thing with Johnathan and th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11341255">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when my spiritual appetite returned and while I was doing little secular reading, I happened across this book.  I enjoyed Catch-22, so picked this up.  I found it damaging to my point of view on God, and blasphemous.  It hurt me to remember the little comments showing the writer's obviou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12040108">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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