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    <body><![CDATA[Pearls Before Swine is my new obsession.  Because I need a new obsession.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[FUNNY!!!!!! When is the next treasury coming out?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this collection of Pearls Before Swine. I always enjoy the characters and story lines Stephen Pastis writes about. This book was different in that the author actually wrote commentary beneath most of the strips. Some of it was interesting, but some of it fell really flat.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26028244">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[just got the new pearls book.  this guy thinks just like i do.  it's almost eerie.<br/><br/>still great.....i love the crocs....and angry bob is so a character that i would relate to....even if he's really not a character of the strip, but a character of rat.....]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The most delightfully subversive comic in syndication today does not falter in this, its third treasury.  Far from it!  Pearls just keeps getting better as time goes by.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I honestly think I have more laugh-out-loud moments with Pearls Before Swine than I ever did back in the days of Calvin &amp; Hobbes.  A must read!!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is probably one of the best comic strips I've ever read. I love it.]]></body>
    
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