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    <body><![CDATA[Read this with my kids. They're 5 and 9 and while the humor and vocabulary was a bit advanced for them, it was still a blast and I got to explain things like cutlasses, harpoons, and Nantucket, while doing (really badly!) every British accent I could think of from Alan Rickman to Joan Collins. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68648232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[these pirates! books are strangely brilliant. the main character is the nefarious pirate captain, known throughout the seven seas for his luxurious beard &amp; ravenous appetite for ham. his pirate crew is known only by distinguishing features: the albino pirate, the pirate who always wears red, the pir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36920038">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The pirates are back, but it seems that their piratical escapades may be in jeopardy. Their boat is rapidly falling apart, so they pay a visit the boatyard owned by the fearsome Cutlass Liz, the most ferocious lady pirate ever to sail the seven seas (who once ate twenty babies just to prove how fero...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52513759">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series.  Its dumb, but I just laugh out loud every time I pick the books up.  Gideon Defoe brings back The Pirates! on another exciting adventure out at sea.  The pirate's ship is in need of some repairs and so they set out to meet up with Cutlass Liz, the scariest she-pirate on the open...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29869861">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Pirate Captain and his luxurious beard are back, though his ship seems to be falling to pieces. Trying to impress Cutlass Liz with his vast amounts of (non-existant) treasure, the Captain buys a new boat, the Lovely Emma. Alas, the Pirate Captain has purchased the boat on credit and if he doesn'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26043625">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This' my first taste of the Pirates series. I'd have to say that it didn't find it's &quot;bite&quot; on me.<br/>It's funny but not one that would make me laugh... not sure about the footnotes. Though i like them and they do give additional information, they did distract me a bit as well as I would...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40079675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, really love it.  Historically inaccurate, but absolutely hilarious!  I loved it loved it loved it.  Now ready to hit the sea theme with Sense and Sensibility with Sea Monsters!  I know the zombies are hot (vampires, always in season), but how about some pirate love??? Unfortunately, I finishe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75101081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With the boat falling apart around them, the Pirate Captain sees only one solution, and he buys a new boat...on credit...from a female pirate who's ready to chop them all up if she's not <br/>paid on time.  Luckily, Ahab is offering a reward if they bring him the white whale that ate his leg...<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the preposterous meeting between these two characters.  What made it worth reading was that Ahab was just as silly and devoid of intelligence as the Pirate Captain was.  Hilarious.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think it takes a special person to appreciate the hilarity of these books. I'm happy to say I'm a special person.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These books are fantastic.  About as close to getting new Monty Python sketches as you're likely to get.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strange and warped but laugh out loud funny.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[stupid and funny.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Defoe's follow up to &quot;...an Adventure with Scientists&quot; lost a lot of its charm, in trying to copy its predecessor. It's still funny, but kind of like how Major League II is funny. It had it's moments, but it just doesn't stand up to the first one. Still, I'll probably read &quot;...an Adve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18534567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[same enjoyablility as pirates: in an adventure with scientists.<br/><br/>however this includes some hilarious allusions to moby dick that many literati should find amusing.  some of the jokes are a little more forced, but several, carried over from the first book, are downright sidesplitting.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8562833">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA['He considered punching the whale on the nose, because he recalled something about that being their weak spot.  But then he remembered how that might be sharks rather than whales.  And also that it was probably apocryphal anyway.  And of course whales don't really have noses.']]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the humor in <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists" title=" The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists"> The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists</a> kind of one-note, so I'm really not sure why I read the sequel. It's been a few weeks now and I've almost completely forgotten it. But I believe I was somewhat pleasantly diverted for about an hour at the time?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More hijinks on the high seas as well as--oddly enough--the wild, wild west. Is there no cliched world from history or literature that those pirates can't insinuate themselves into and change for the better? The answer is no.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ham is very important to a pirate diet, and Ahab's okay even though he started out in that horrid Moby Dick book.  (The Pirates help him track the whale.  To Las Vegas and beyond...)]]></body>
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