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    <body><![CDATA[Though it took me twenty years to discover that Ben Elton wrote books (I knew of him through TV's The Young Ones, Blackadder, and The Thin Blue Line), I've always loved his acerbic wit aimed at the stupidity and indifference of people. His stand-up and television sitcom scripts have always been on m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74999312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ben Elton's humour is pushed and over the top for my taste.  His first book and definitely my last of Ben Elton's.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[aha!!! I finished this book also in time for the Spring Challenge.<br/><br/>This was the first Ben Elton book I read, and was happy to re-read it again.<br/><br/>I like the interaction between the characters of different motives, but was particularly impressed by the explanation of the motives o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51180538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ok, I read this when I first got married which makes it like 16-17 years ago.  (gasp)<br/><br/>I love it then, but since then realized it was full of profanity and being a much &quot;better&quot; Christian now, I'm not as able to let such things go.<br/><br/>So if profanity (and I mean profanity...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12695074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is Elton's first and sadly his best. Back before he was writing about whinging, upper-middle-class, middle-aged couples, he wrote this whopper of an environmental parable that is equal parts cold hard (depressing) fact and hilarious observation. I have never read anything more hilarious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2769548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved Elton's humour before he started writing novels so was pre-disposed to enjoying this but even now, nearly 20 years since I first read it, I can still enjoy the witty writing and all-too-believable story. He created some great characters and has clearly spent enough time in Australia to be ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19771444">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11317904">
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    <body><![CDATA[this may tie with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18490.Frankenstein" title="Frankenstein by Mary Shelley">Making History</a> for worst book I've ever read. actually strike that, I did read a Dave Barry novel once.  but Stark sure stunk.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was awesome, and the image which stays with me forever is the Australian billionare ordering SWAN because he wanted to be pretentious, and the cook out the back serving him up a cat.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely loved the storyline. It was just so clever and well written. One of the first books I ever read from Ben Elton and since then I am a HUGE fan.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only bad thing I can say about this book is that it reads like a script, is a little annoying.<br/><br/>Other than that, it's pure Elton.  It's good ^^]]></body>
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    <review id="686807">
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    <body><![CDATA[Full disclosure: I didn't finish this book and I don't think I ever will.  I hated the tone of the book.  It's too brash.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read an older publication of this ... love Ben Elton's humour.]]></body>
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