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  <title><![CDATA[Between the Bridge and the River]]></title>
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  <default_description>Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offend regardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or profession &lt;i&gt;Between the Bridge and the River&lt;/i&gt; is the debut novel by Craig Ferguson, host of CBS's &lt;i&gt;The Late Late Show&lt;/i&gt;. Two childhood friends from Scotland and two illegitimate half-brothers from the American South suffer and enjoy all manner of bizarre experiences which, as it turns out, are somehow interconnected and, surprisingly enough, meaningful. An eclectic cast of characters includes Carl Jung, Fatty Arbuckle, Virgil, Marat, Socrates, and Tony Randall. Love, greed, hope, revenge, organized religion, and Hollywood are alternately tickled and throttled. Impossible to summarize and impossible to stop reading, this is a romantic comic odyssey that actually delivers and rewards.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2007</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/><br/>Between the River and the Bridge by Craig Ferguson<br/><br/>Am I glad I read this book? Yes.<br/>Am I disappointed that I used up my time reading this book when I could have been reading something else? No.<br/>Will I ever read this book again? No.<br/>Will I recommend this book to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18452887">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely fantastic. Probably my favorite work of fiction. Sprawling, hilarious, touching, insightful, profane, and overall meaningful. Interesting how several different storylines end up being brought together into a cohesive whole. Clearly influenced by author's experiences with controlled substa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1831856">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like Craig Ferguson (host of the Late Late Show), you'll like this book. He is a smart guy with a quirky sense of language and timing. The book didn't blow me away, but it was an entertaining read, and provided some interesting commentary on Hollywood and TV evangelism.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not entirely sure how to encapsulate this book. It's an interesting mix of not-entirely-linear narrative, casual asides, the occasional whiff of 12-step thinking, and a message that's hard to argue with: help others. <br/><br/>The most barbed satire of the book is directed at the entertainment...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11063914">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up recently at a library sale.  Craig Ferguson's book is not immediately what you would expect from the late night talk show host.  I have not watched his TV show extensively, but enough to think him a funny man.  This book has funny moments, but is not laugh out-loud funny.  It has humo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27469523">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Admittedly, I didn't have high expectations for this book.  It's written by a late night talk show host, for crying out loud!  But shockingly enough, I loved it.  Now, having said that (and given it four stars), let me say that doesn't necessarily mean I recommend this book for everybody.  There's d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32918319">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oddball Scotsman Craig Ferguson is already up there with Letterman and O'Brien as a late-night talk show host, but he's an even better author than TV personality.<br/><br/>This is brilliant.  The writing is terrific, fun, insightful, and hilarious.  The story and the characters are pretty fantasti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20037300">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Humorous take on religion, tv evangelists, some pop-psych thrown in, and a whole lot of interconnected misfits. Everything comes to a head towards the end of the novel. And then, well.... we just sit in the grass at the side of the road and wait, I guess.<br/><br/>This was my 'breather book', a li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20159984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Sophie thought about Frank's cock sometimes, how famous it was.  Not as famous as his voice, sure, but famous in cock terms.  Most cocks were seen by only a handful of people: Mom, Dad, creepy uncle, priest, bunkmates, and lovers.  Frank's cock had been seen by thousands of showgirls.  It was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41716855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The official blurb (click on the title above) is pretty accurate. Ferguson is amazingly multi-talented: musician, actor, writer, standup comedian, talk-show host. He's written and acted in three movies, including Saving Grace and I'll Be There. He's presented his own series on Scottish archaeology, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57605110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily one of my favourite books. I'm an avid fan of Mr. Ferguson, and I was quite impressed with his first novel. It's a wildly fun romp that doesn't forget its place as a  moral messenger to the masses. Mr. Ferguson's literary debut cements him in place as the smartest man on television- one of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10396156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was given this book as a gift by someone who knows I am a fan of the comedian's late night talk show and stand-up comedy routines. In person, Ferguson is a master of walking that tightrope between lunacy and sly intelligence. I admire that. So admittedly, I went into this novel with (perhaps unrea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65933112">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is my favorite book. really. THE favorite. the best way i know how to describe it is that it has the character variety, old-timey sweetness and journey-theme of &quot;o, brother where art thou?&quot; and the raw and sometimes-grotesquely humorous parable quality of &quot;pulp fiction.&quot; yes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11138566">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My obsession with Craig Ferguson is borderline unhealthy. My rating for this book is probably completely biased. Craig is seemingly effortless with his writing; he doesn't even need writers for the Late Late Show. Between the Bridge and the River is hard to summarize because it tells the stories of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59706748">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a bit of a surprise. Ferguson has a lot of characters, each involved in their own story, none of which are apparently related to one another. Then at the end, he ties it all neatly together. I totally admire an author who can do that. This was a delightful surprise to discover about my...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14765721">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book written by late night talk show host, comedian and actor, Craig Ferguson, is on many levels quite intelligent and at times seems like a boast by the author to show his knowledge of the world's religions. On other levels, it just doesn't coagulate into a cohesive whole. It is outrageous, in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65223621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, when my husband John came home from the library with Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson I thought, “Craig Ferguson? The late night Scottish guy?” Sure enough, I flipped to the inside back cover and there was his picture. I have always found him to be hilarious, so I was immed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70608520">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the best books I've ever read. It's so truthful and real, and even though I can't connect to most of the emotions, Ferguson does a great job capturing them. To be honest, I didn't think it was gonna be all that great cause, come on, Craig Ferguson: hysterical late night talk show host writes ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48809995">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I'm really impressed with this book. Craig Ferguson is, of course, really funny, but also shows so much knowledge of literature, history, geography, and a wide variety of other disciplines. And, his writing is really good. He manipulates this complex web of characters and each of their detailed sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47764721">more...</a>]]></body>
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