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    <body><![CDATA[I encountered cartoons by Roz Chast back in the 1980's in Seventeen magazine. They made fun of things while capturing teen anguish to a T. For example, I remember the two teenage protagonists needing jobs and aspiring to something glamorous, but ending up at a mall-food-court hot dog stand, wearing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59279189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is relentless. Everyone in it is a bourgeois New Yorker, and it frequently disregards the fact that a “Great Outdoors” even exists. (Guaranteed to make outdoorsy types cry: “Nature Girl and the Four Elements.”) But some of it was funny. Some of it was very funny. Sometimes it was j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77342231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The highlight of my week, every week, is flipping through The New Yorker for the new Chast cartoon. I normally try to withhold and read it cover-to-cover, except for my cartoon fix.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sort of depends whether you like Roz Chast, but some of this stuff is absolutely hilarious, and several of the cartoons have already become catchphrases in my house, the kind of humor shorthand that seems to just get funnier because of how true-to-life it is (e.g. &quot;face goes all crazy!&quot;). ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41521328">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book. Discovering her cartoons was the high point of  reading in 2008]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More of a scan than a reading.  It's like the author was trying to be like Addams but not getting there.  Just not my humor, I guess.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, my gosh.  She has one cartoon about funny-named towns in Arkansas.  I'm going to do one about funny-named towns in Georgia, to emulate her.  She is so funny!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roz Chast has been following me around for the last--hmm 2006 minus 1978--28 years with a notebook!  Can a book of humor cartoons be a world classic?  Will she be footnoted in some future history of the late 20th century?  How well will she convey the spirit of the times?  Will my comments help vali...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33006713">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did I ever mention meeting Roz Chast? Oh, I did? Well, never mind then.<br/><br/>The only thing that keeps this from being the Best Bathroom Reading of the Year is that it weighs about 8 pounds and is really bulky and sometimes hard to keep balanced when you have other things on your mind. But goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11351355">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Roz Chast" title=" Roz Chast"> Roz Chast</a> is one of my favorite cartoonists; her work is just the perfect blend of neurotic anxiety, literary humor, and utter wackiness. This is a really great collection, too: 400 pages spanning her entire career, including many of my personal favorites. (Pollyanna in Hell! Yay!) Highly, highly r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1639983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bookconscious.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/searches-for-meaning-theories-of-everything/" title="http://bookconscious.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/searches-for-meaning-theories-of-everything/">http://bookconscious.wordpress.com/2008/...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best living New Yorker cartoonist finally has a book big enough to convince anyone that you either get her work, or else you're a giant worthless stick in the mud.  Or whatever.  But I know where I go when I need a good laugh from a book.. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[love<br/>love<br/>love<br/>LOVE Roz Chast.<br/><br/>Any New Yorker reader will enjoy this all RC all the time! <br/>400 pages.<br/>It's huge and it's hilarious.<br/><br/>The more neurotic you are the more you'll love it.<br/>And I really loved it.<br/><br/>That is all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roz Chast and I are sisters under the skin. I think my favorite cartoon is the &quot;Bad Mother Trading Cards&quot;. Or maybe &quot;The MRI Tunnel of Love&quot;. Or &quot;Romeo and Juliet's IM's.&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the greatest book ever written. I'm not kidding. What could possibly be better than a giant book full of Roz Chast cartoons?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good book to read when alone, or with someone who will not judge you harshly for constant sotto voce giggling. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny, Funny, Funny. Even Funnier then a shopping cart with a broken wheel (page 584)]]></body>
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