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  <title><![CDATA[The Suicide Club (Dover Thrift Editions)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Short story trilogy involving a club for people who wish to end their lives. The &quot;Story of the Young Man with the Cream Tarts,&quot; &quot;Story of the Physician and the Saratoga Trunk,&quot; and &quot;The Adventure of the Hansom Cab&quot; chronicle the exploits of Prince Florizel of Bohemia and Colonel Geraldine through some of 19th-century London's most dangerous haunts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1970</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert Louis Stevenson]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 27 12:00:50 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This Story was crazy.  Stevenson has these morbid and interesting stories.  All I'm going to say is that it is about a club of people that wants to died, which is why its named as it is.  It don't want to spoil anything.  Each part seems like its a seperate story, but its all realated and you'll see...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47705485">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun read, if you can use that word in connection with suicide. But a pretty good little collection of three Victorian suspense stories with all the elements I like in such stories - incognito royalty, secret clubs, less-than-virtous women, revenge and honour.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Nov 16 05:05:18 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 short stories with interwoven plots, starting with the Prince's run-in with a club of suicidals who take the burden out of suicide by turning it into a game. I enjoyed the first story most, but it's such a short book (50-some pages I think) that I had to finish it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an awesome trilogy! A must read.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great mystery of sorts. The Body Snatcher was also included in this book as well and was exciting to read. Robert Louis Stevenson has yet to disappoint me!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 31 11:51:28 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short, sweet, somewhat disappointing. The writing is a little pompous and the three stories included are of the pre-Hardy Boys school of English adventure fiction. Still, the 'suicide club' that Stevenson dreams up as the nemesis to his two effete aristocratic detectives – a club of would-be suici...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18596395">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Suicide Club is only 59 pages long and only contains three connected short stories, but, of course, it was fabulous, as all Stevenson's writing is in my humble opinion. Strikes me as imitative of Poe but a little less dark. A fast-paced, easy read, it nonetheless contains some interesting commen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27744982">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book, but because of a busy schedule I never finished it.  I do intend to finish it soon though, because it was a fascinating, if slightly morbid, read... :)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was just a fun book to read. The book I read had other short stories that were a blast to read as well. He's one of my new (to me) favorite authors.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If this is anything like the movie, it will be crazy, good, and crazygood. If it is nothing like the movie, then I am in for a big surprise.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The rich main character gets off way to easy! But RLS slips in some fab exposition in this bad boy.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[he is a classic... love the &quot;mood&quot; and atmosphere in his books!!! he made me love London !!! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a unique and terrifying idea! RL Stevenson is brilliant!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very short book.  Dark.  Glad I read it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[deliciously scary]]></body>
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