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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, this was SUCH a good read. Twelve-year-old Matthew seems to have a new friend, but not of the corporeal sort. The sort who teaches him binary counting, how to paint through new eyes, how to swim (even when he can’t), and encourages him to ask the most unusual questions of his parents and teach...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14756016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first ever taste of sci-fi (shocking isn't it?) and I have to say that I really enjoyed this little book. It wasn't quite long enough for me to feel fully invested in but I really enjoyed the tale of Matthew, a seemingly ordinary 11 year old boy, who happens to hang out with an alien. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46646771">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<img src="http://l-userpic.livejournal.com/94158277/456521" class="escapedImg"/><br/><br/>As it's a national holiday (all saints day 1st november) we've been out raking leaves from the lawns, bringing in stocks from the woodshed, drinking a can in the beer tent and generally agreeing it's blinking great for shop owners to have a Saturday off.<br/><br/>So the sun, that only ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76289768">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Matthew, a perfectly average 12-year-old boy, apparently under the influence of his new imaginary friend, Chocky, begins asking questions well beyond his age, and displaying previously unknown talents. The framework of the story is versatile enough that it could have gone in a number of directions; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71790815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Should of called it Chalky, as it was hard to see where this story was going.<br/><br/>Yet another of his books with dull lifeless female characters... (i'm a girl and i like PONIES!I'm the mother who just worries and has no more reference except to be obtuse and worry! I'm the bitchy female aunt....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46722256">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Chocky is the story of a young boy whose imaginary friend turns out to be an alien consciousness.<br/><br/>While I liked Chocky a lot, it didn't go down the way I thought it would.  You'd think the alien consciousness would be malicious, especially coming from John Wyndham.  It's actually benevole...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Read this one recently in preparation to watch the 3 British miniseries which revolve around this novel.  One thing I appreciate about Wyndham's works is he never wastes space on the page...and what is there is compressed and intelligent, generally.  This was the case in this novel...I can imag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73237453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My review of this short book is more like a hastily written summary.  It made me think about the way thoughts are transmitted, and how if we are in tune with them we can hear more that the average person.  Chocky awakened Matthew's senses ... here is a synopsis of the story.  <br/><br/>Matthew Gor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59213463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a sentimental favorite -- vintage John Wyndham.  An intimate little tale, it involves a boy's invisible friend -- whom the parents assume is make-believe.  But then they start noticing things...<br/><br/>Well, that may sound rather trite, but believe me Wyndham's building of suspense ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5265975">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nice science fiction.  It reads quickly and does not try to get too complicated.  This is the story of a boy named Matthew who is contacted by an alien intelligence called Chocky.  Told from the perspective of his father, the story follows how the family becomes aware of Chocky and what happens to M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10047120">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the way this sf novel slowly grew creepier and more uncanny, starting from a common occurrence in a family with two children to the revelation of an alien presence.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it loved it loved it. I love that the characters that behave so rationally and caring, in a way that I always feel people actually would. Not in the way some fiction forces characters into crazy conflict out of fear that it won't be exciting enough. And it made me cry at the end, but happy tea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52164250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book as much for the memories associated with it as the story itself. I read my father's old copy of Chocky. The pages were all starting to yellow and page 6 had come loose from the binding and kept falling out. It was my first experience with sci-fi and the first time I ventured out of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14690082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[picked this book up randomly at a giant library sale. it was quite the steal ringing in at only 25 cents :)<br/><br/>at any rate, i devoured it in a day and found that it was a pretty interesting scifi story. what if the people with voices in their head were hearing a far more intelligent lifeform...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11663073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I have to read this one again. I hope I like it as much the second time as I did the first.<br/><br/>Yes, still a good book, and even more interesting today as we struggle with issues of finite energy, but really more interesting for the story of the friendship.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A book taught for a class in 8th grade (quatrieme) a long while ago. We named a cat after the eponymous 'character'. Named an earlier cat after one in O'Brian (At Swim Two Birds), too: Pooka. The nature of cats and that of these 2 characters are the link. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily-digestible sci-fi with a pro-environment leaning. Very smooth, with a palpable sense of tension. The inherent weirdness of childhood is described well, also.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I still have this book on my to be read pile. I heard a GREAT radio drama presentation of this book on BBC Radio 7 via the internet. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easy enjoyable read.  A little dated and cliched now, although i'm sure wasn't at time of release.]]></body>
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