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  <title><![CDATA[The Secret Files of the Diogenes Club]]></title>
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  <default_description>From the 1860s to the present, these are the accounts of the Diogenes Club, whose agents solve crimes too strange for Britain's police, protecting the realm and this entire plane of existence from occult menaces, threats born in other dimensions, magical perfidy and the Deep Dark Deadly Ones. Kim Newman continues the series began in The Man From the Diogenes Club, revealing more of the secrets of the British Empire's most secret service.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">11</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book, though I didn't think I would.  Newman did a good job of pulling me into the world of these characters, spanning nearly a century easily, something I generally don't like.  I'm not sure what kind of book this is, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, something in-between, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55665066">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up based on reading another short story by Kim Newman (also about the Diogenes Club). This book follows an interesting set of characters with different (paranormal) powers, and kind of gives the background to the story I had originally read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book only gets better as you get into it though the first story was a tough read to get through. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short story collection about London's least-known intelligence service. I'm not done with it yet, but so far, we've dealt with faeries and changelings, a merman imprisoned by religious fanatics, Charles Manson, and some nightmares from the Lovecraft mythos.  I'm usually not a fan of short stories,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21160291">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a fond spot in my heart for the stories of the Diogenes club, which I think is amongst Newman's best work. This volume, about 2/3rds I'd read ebfore, certainly didn't disappoint.]]></body>
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