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  <title><![CDATA[Life at Blandings (OMNIBUS)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Impostors abound in the latter-day Eden that is Blandings Castle in this three novels which includes &lt;b&gt;Something Fresh&lt;/b&gt;, the first Blandings novel,&lt;b&gt; Summer Lightning&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;Heavy Weather&lt;/b&gt;.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1979</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[P.G. Wodehouse]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Mar 05 11:29:41 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 16 13:58:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three very enjoyable books, set in an English castle in the teens, in which young people pose as other people for financial gain and/or love.  The first one, Something Fresh, stars two young writers who live in the same building in London and was my favorite--mainly because I didn't know ladies coul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48331063">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Oct 26 13:53:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had 3 stories in it.  I got through the first one.  Dry, British humor, which wasn't bad, but just outdated.  ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Aug 18 11:08:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although his plots are like a series of identical knots, Wodehouse's syntax glimmers with genius (like Jeeves).]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67903283]]></url>
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    <review id="40957215">
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  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 15:20:46 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 26 15:20:46 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A light hearted book full of mischief and mayhem.]]></body>
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    <review id="15971368">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 21 03:04:52 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 21 03:06:18 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This omnibus contains the first three Blandings novels, being Something Fresh, Summer Lightning and Heavy Weather. In many ways the Blandings novels have the same formula as the Jeeves and Wooster books; it is a winning formula as far as I'm concerned and again I would recommend a reading of them. D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15971368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3734550">
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    <name><![CDATA[Greg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 29 04:09:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 10 08:29:02 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Technically, I only read the first two of the three short novels in this collection, &quot;Something Fresh&quot; and &quot;Summer Lightning.&quot;  I enjoyed the first one and dearly loved the second.  The characters are a bit more cemented; plus, you have the Hon. Galahad, the bounder.  I decided t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3734550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10351503">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone clever!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 12 20:09:58 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[My sense of humor--witty like Coward, and a thoroughly enjoyable escapist guilty pleasure. (This is the &quot;War &amp; Peace&quot; of Wodehouse novels in that it is about 1000 pages.) I'm on the very last story/novel and thoroughly enjoying it!]]></body>
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    <review id="31003973">
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  <date_added>Sat Aug 23 14:32:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about three books in one and is a fun read as the family and those around get into ridiculous situations.  One can't help but love the Empress of Blandings either.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wodehouse is wonderful, no ifs or buts about it. Jeeves is great and loved, but I also really like Blandings and the whole family of Threepwoods...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I always forget how much fun Blandings Castle is...and then I re-read this book and remember how thoroughly amusing and ridiculous it all is!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whether it is in the city or the countryside, Wodehouse knows how to create a wonderfully situation and let it spin out of control.  ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My introduction to Wodehouse...I have never laughed so many times outloud at a novel. Brilliant]]></body>
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    <review id="49226860">
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  <date_added>Sat Mar 14 04:06:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Omnibus with the following titles<br/><br/>1. Something Fresh<br/>2. Summer Lightning<br/>3. Heavy Weather]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 21 14:43:44 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 21 14:43:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[recommended by Brooke]]></body>
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    <review id="13913989">
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    <body><![CDATA[Go Emsworth!!]]></body>
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