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    <body><![CDATA[Corky is a ventriloquist/magician about to hit it big.  Real big.  But he's got a problem.  He's completely and totally insane; he's got a split personality that has manifested itself in his ventriloquist dummy, Fats.  Corky thinks Fats is alive, giving him advice, telling him what to do, making him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7199245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, a much better book than a movie;  gimme a break--Ann Margaret?  Anyway, it was a good read from a master wordsmith--his earlier books are all worth reading.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[oh my god, this book was ridiculous.  i was kind of embarrassed to be reading it once i figured out what it was about.  i guess this is a spoiler: but haven't we done the psychotic ventriolquist who thinks his dummy's alive, like, a hundred times already?  the only reason it has two stars is that ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9067323">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My reading selection was slim pickin's during my semester in Rome, and the version of this book I read had a creepy picture of a ventriloquist's dummy on the cover and a fairly cheesy writeup on the back, which my friend Chris read aloud until I was pretty much on the floor laughing.  I think both o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26357258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My brother's theory about Goldman is that in all of his books, the protagonist is really good at one thing.  In this one, its magic, and later on, ventriloquism, which eventually drives him mad, and totally ruins his chances with this babe.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Again, not a lot of memories of this book, but I do recall that as creepy as Goldman made this plot, having the whole idea revolve around a puppeteer who is taken over by his evil puppet  was a stretch ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Goldman is a wonderful author.  Look him up and Ira Levin as well.  Magic was a movie, but the book is so much better, and frightening.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[A magician's work with a ventriloquist dummy begins to erode his sanity.  From the author of &quot;Marathon Man&quot; and &quot;The Princess Bride.&quot;]]>
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