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    <body><![CDATA[If you're looking for a book like Pirates of the Carribean, don't read this. If you want cowardice, ignorance, and foolishness on a grand scale, and a laugh so hard your family can't sleep, buy this book. I bought it by accident, mostly to see if my students would like it, and laughed for days. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24454972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pure cheese, and I like cheese. Laugh out loud funny. Nothing particularly fantastic about the subject or the writing, but it will put a grin on your face. Booktalk from library school below.<br/><br/>The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe.<br/><br/>The Pirate Captain is a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7293437">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So despite having been a follower of the author's blog for some time, I finally got around to reading the copy I bought of his most famous book (my opinion, not his or the publisher's). The first book pokes fun at scientists but Gideon really gets into his true form with the second book with Ahab an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3984695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I picked up this book after seeing it pop up just about everywhere, and I should have re-calibrated my expectations after Megan said it was &quot;okay.&quot; That being said, it was a quick read that was fun, but not fun enough to really engage me into finishing.<br/><br/>Here are some of the p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34354674">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made my bus ride home from work SO MUCH BETTER for the three days it took me to read it. It's two books in one, which was nice, so as soon as I finished the one, I was able to flip the book around and read the other novel starting from the &quot;back&quot; (the two books are arranged so th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3745232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[How people get away with publishing some of the rubbish in this world is beyond me. I certainly can't answer that question in regards to this book, though in its favor it was amusing. Utterly silly, it has no reason to be except to entertain. Surprisingly, that's quite all right with me. <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2846971">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the wierdest and funniest books i ever read.  Follows a group of anacronistic pirates that love ham and have luxuriant beards as they travel around the world and do strange stuff.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An Adventure with Scientists is better than An Adventure with Ahab.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, silly, laugh out loud humour.  Nice and short too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I recently devoured in two days Gideon Defoe's first two Pirates! novels.  They were sold together, like back in the day when you were a kid, and one story was printed one way, and then you filled the book over, and there was a second story, and they met in the middle of the book, one of them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3357138">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG, THIS BOOK IS FRIGGING HILARIOUS!!!! As is the book that's on the other side of it if u turn it around and flip it upside down. (Pirates! In an Adventure with Ahab). The Ahab Story is not as funny but still worth reading. A very lighthearted, easy read that'll leave you laughing your head off at...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18224725">more...</a>]]></body>
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