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    <body><![CDATA[A 4.5 star effort. An odd (in a good way), quirky book about Viskovitz and his adventures on the ladder of evolution, or more accurately, reincarnation. The book is made up of very-short short stories, in each of which Viskovitz is a different animal/insect (though always male). And in each story, h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24290890">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a really funny clever book, written by a biologist, and what he does is use the mating habits of all these different species of animals to reflect on the ridiculousness, the tragedy, the beauty, and the futility of the <em>human</em> animal's mating games. Viskovitz, in the various interconnected sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1641287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short Stories. Viskovitz is an animal, literally. He's an elk. He's a pig. He's a rat. He's a self-lovin' snail. Each chapter features Viskovitz as a different animal, searching for love, or, when that fails, sex. <br/><br/>This is a funny, absurd, weird little book and the satire reminded me of V...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1692877">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it! Absolutely wonderful! Funny, witty, interesting and intelligently written! One of my favorites, by far! Now-a-days I read it for my pre-husband when going to bed. And he laughs out load, and loves it just as much as I do!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious and entertaining book. A series of short stories, so it's easy to read a story each night before bed, on a train ride, or at lunch.  A great little read, highly recommend it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A clever collection of short stories that totally appealed to the ecology dork in me. My only complaint is that reading it before bed made me dream that I was a dung beetle--blech. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A funny mix of fables, irony, satire, human typology and delicious language. I loled a lot, which is, I think, the ultimate aim of it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa (2003)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Calmed me down after a long day...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books! A collection of short stories in which each chapter the protagonist, Viskovitz, is a different animal. Written by a russian biologist, the book captures Viskovitz' natural urges as he searches for sex, food, status, and love as succumbed to his animal instincts. For example...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29537295">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, this is very funny. The terminology is extremely scientific so you have to kind of stumble over the various words for animal reproductive organs and just imagine where they are located. However, that adds to the fun. This is erotica in code, sort of. [return:][return:]The one where Viskovitz bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44264760">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is either a really insightful examination of the existential crisis or a total mocking of the very idea of an existential crisis. or both. regardless, the slug chapter and scorpion chapter are beyond awesome. I've probably already told you this, because I insist on recommending this book t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24181875">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Smart, funny collection of vignettes of life and love from the point of view of Viskovitz, a somewhat ridiculous fellow living variously as a dormouse, a lion, a microbe, a shark, etc. The author is a biologist and much of the humor comes from the vagaries of nature. I particularly loved &quot;The L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38004708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a very difficult time getting into this; I read the first several stories over a period of weeks and months. Later, I read the rest in a day; I'm not sure if they were better or if it was just my frame of mind. Some were interesting, even poignant at times, and a certain story sticks with me, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21761773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a supremely odd book that takes a look at animal behaviors over a bunch of different species, and in the subtext compares them to human behaviors. <br/><br/>All of the vignettes are about an animal, Viskovitz, in pursuit of the love of his many lives, Ljuba, and the strange and familiar wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3856281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clever, satirical 21st century animal fables. Each fable features the lead character Viskovitz trying to find love as a different animal including a dog, an elk, a spider and a microbe. Boffa anthropomorphizes the animals so that they have human emotions such as lust, affection and jealousy. If you ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1503470">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, this is a great book. It is a collection of short stories about Viskovitz, who is in love with a female called Ljuba. But, the problem is: they are not human! In each story, they belong to different animal species. So we get a peek into love-related problems of bugs, sponges, fish, sharks, snail...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31406725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[According to the book jacket, &quot;a modern riff on Ovid's Metamorphoses.&quot; It's a bizarre and funny collection of short stories about animals. I'd love to re-read sometime with some Ovid under my belt first.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My younger brother lent this to me last summer. Its a quick read...yet humerous and mas que todo...fantastic. I added the Spanish version to my to-read list...Its just that great...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the perfect book for travel days. The individual stories are very short, witty, hilarious, and sometimes touching. I cant see why anyone would object to this book.]]></body>
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