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  <title><![CDATA[Pure Ducky Goodness: The First Sheldon™ Collection]]></title>
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  <default_description>Dave Kellett brings you the first book collection of the popular daily comic strip, Sheldon!  Selected favorites from the much-loved webcomic are collected in one beautifully bound volume. Take it with you wherever your jet-setting life may lead you - and enjoy the adventures of a 10-year-old software billionaire, his pet duck and the grandfather that raises them both. It's a wonderful mix of everyday family humor, pop culture references and the surreal!</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2006</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Pure Ducky Goodness: The First Sheldon&#8482; Collection</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dave Kellett]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone, without reservation.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 06 07:05:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 23 18:33:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a wonderful collection. Unlike most webcomics, which pride themselves on catering to a niche, Kellett's humour is refreshingly accessible, definitely hinting at a Bill Watterson influence. While his references sometimes tend towards the geekish, this by no means excludes the ordinary reader. <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38492587">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon May 11 12:40:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 11 12:40:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an internet comic my coworker’s addicted to. She purchased this book and The Good, the Bad, and the Pugly from the website and was kind enough to let me read both. It’s full of strange pop culture references I’m not quite enough of a nerd to appreciate (Superman 2? Really? Huh…), but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55695252">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Nerds, Newspaper comic strip fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 21 16:30:33 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me too long to get on the Sheldon bandwagon. Now loving the strip full time is easy, because it's consistently funny, earnestly cute, relatively original, and chock full of nerd humor. Unfortunately this first collection is a little sub-par, and clunky, as most first-book-in-the-collections ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56896981">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 10 20:19:53 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meet Sheldon, a 10 year old genius who designed software to make the internet go faster. He's a huge geek. <br/><br/>Meet Gramps, the 65 year old ludite guardian of the boy wonder. <br/><br/>Meet Arthur, a talking duck due to some more software written by Sheldon.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 21 11:43:05 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sheldon is a consistently entertaining webcomic, well worth picking up in the collected print editions.  I would have given this first book 5 stars, but the comic only gets better from here, so I had to leave myself some head room.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun May 24 14:53:04 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is laugh out loud funny! I get out this book to re-read whenever I'm having a bad day; lifts my spirits right up. Better than chocolate (actually burns calories because of all of the belly laughs).]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sheldon is a 10 year old Billionair who lives with his Grandpa and his talking pet Duck.  It is the best comic strip about a 10 year old w/ a talking duck ever.  everyone should read it.]]></body>
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    <review id="28349141">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone -- especially Calvin &amp; Hobbes &amp; Bloom County fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tee hee! Good fun. Check the strip out on the web and you will be hooked:<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.sheldoncomic.com">www.sheldoncomic.com</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My absolute fav. webcomic. It makes me laugh, or smile every day.]]></body>
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