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  <title><![CDATA[Strong Poison]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1930</original_publication_year>
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        <author id="8734">
      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy L. Sayers]]></name>
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    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Sep 25 19:09:36 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 27 08:11:37 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Do not read this book for the mystery. Read this book for the characters and politics and humor. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11519.Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri">Dorothy L. Sayers</a> seems to have chosen her form of social criticism to best reach the largest audience. Few would be interested in a scholarly work about the double-standard of women and men's freedom in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33857723">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32697824">
    <user id="446509">
    <name><![CDATA[Ann]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Peter Wimsey fans]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Sep 12 10:19:11 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 21 09:05:30 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I think I would have liked this book better if I didn't already know Lord Peter Wimsey from &quot;Clouds of Witness&quot;—meaning, I love Peter so much, that I was disappointed he wasn't in &quot;Strong Poison&quot; more.  I adored all the chapters with him in &quot;Strong Poison&quot; but they se...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32697824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19450853">
    <user id="446464">
    <name><![CDATA[Kathryn]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[El Dorado Hills, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 04 10:46:14 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 20 19:28:14 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Annie-and-Katie Book Club selection! We had been looking forward to spending more time with Lord Peter, but alas he was not ever-present, and barely sometimes-present.  This was a very confused sort of book--the first several chapters were quite dry, all courtroom stuff, blah-blah about the case aga...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19450853">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5109551">
    <user id="309472">
    <name><![CDATA[Maria]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Silver Spring, MD]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>2</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Christie and Conan Doyle fans]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 25 15:16:59 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 26 12:38:07 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The mystery in this was quite facile, to the point where I figured out who did it before the character even appeared, and the method the moment the clue was mentioned, but I didn't care about that. Lord Peter is utterly adorable and smitten here, and Miss Climpson, who does most of the heavy lifting...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5109551">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30308034">
    <user id="1432093">
    <name><![CDATA[Sharon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[All readers--men and women]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Michael Seidman]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1983</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 16 09:45:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 16 09:54:13 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sayers wrote many novels.  Four feature Lord Peter Wimsey and love interest Harriet Vane.  Those are my favorites: STRONG POISON, HAVE HIS CARCASE, GAUDY NIGHT and BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON.<br/><br/>There is something about Sayers' writing that conveys images, humor, characters, etc., from her brain to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30308034">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16311318">
    <user id="901783">
    <name><![CDATA[Happyreader]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chicago, IL]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Celia Pastoriza]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sun Mar 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 25 07:23:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 09 13:10:54 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very 1930s British.  Droll and eccentric.  Loved Lord Wimsey and loved Miss Climpson and Miss Murchison.  Harriet Vane only gets to be witty and uncompromising while awaiting her fate but I assume she gets promoted to a more active role in the subsequent two books.  Carolyn Heilbrun talks about how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16311318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71492356">
    <user id="2579423">
    <name><![CDATA[Josh]]></name>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Sep 16 19:31:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 16 19:39:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the book that introduced me to the character of Lord Peter Wimsey and Dorothy Sayers in general. At the time I was not as impressed with the mystery itself, but the characters of Peter, Harriet, and Bunter. They were just so interesting to me, and I had to read more. (I've since collected a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71492356">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40940367">
    <user id="1107171">
    <name><![CDATA[Libby]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 26 11:15:57 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 26 11:32:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a mystery that I recommend for people like me who don't often seek out mystery stories. Yes, it's about a woman wrongly accused of murder and a private investigator who is desperately seeking the real killer, but the trappings of mystery are overshadowed by those of a surprisingly modern rom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40940367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56794421">
    <user id="861629">
    <name><![CDATA[K.]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[lighthearted &amp; clean mystery lovers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 20 17:25:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 20 17:38:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was introduced to Dorothy Sayers years ago through an essay she wrote <br/>&quot;The Lost Tools of Learning.&quot; She was a friend / contemporary of C.S. Lewis &amp; J.R.R. Tolkien, very well-educated, writer of many novels, short stories and essays. <br/><br/>Anyway, I've always stayed away from ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56794421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64799346">
    <user id="1013047">
    <name><![CDATA[Anna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Richmond, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 24 10:53:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 27 12:31:59 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you don't get what the fuss over Sayers' &quot;'tec&quot; books is, this just might be the one to illuminate you. Crackling dialogue, sweltering art parties, seances, spinsters ... Sayers really outdoes herself. I've been trying to read the Lord Peter books in more or less chronological order -- ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64799346">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="70205391">
    <user id="2250742">
    <name><![CDATA[Michelle]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>0</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 05 19:54:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 05 20:02:58 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third time I read this book.  It is the second adult mystery book I received after graduating from Nancy Drew at 13.  Like the last reading, I turned to it to read something cozy, something familiar, something that reminds me of that.  This time around I was so much more focused on Sayer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70205391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29465623">
    <user id="687074">
    <name><![CDATA[Jarrah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Melbourne, Australia]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 06 17:52:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 06 17:55:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Golden Age mystery. Harriet Vane is on trial for her life, for the murder by arsenic poisoning of her lover, Philip Boyes. Lord Peter Wimsey sees her first at the trial, and knows immediately that she's innocent - partly because he is, after all, rather good at reading people when it comes to this s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29465623">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16082222">
    <user id="821868">
    <name><![CDATA[Kirsten]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Feb 22 08:36:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 22 08:37:15 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may be one of my favorite Lord Peter mysteries. Not only is it rather delightful to see Lord Peter made vulnerable by love, the murder itself is fiendishly clever. I was completely stumped as to the method, and when it was finally revealed I shouted in delight and had to run and tell my housema...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16082222">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3404879">
    <user id="134370">
    <name><![CDATA[Jack]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Arlington, MA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 23 07:54:25 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jul 23 08:29:14 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just reread it for the first time in years, and found it, like all of the Lord Peter stories, every bit as enjoyable.<br/><br/>This was the very first Lord Peter book I'd read, though not the first Sayers; weirdly, I started with her only <em>non</em>-Lord Peter novel, <em>The Documents in the Case</em>, an epistol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3404879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10542428">
    <user id="342341">
    <name><![CDATA[Tim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[People with nothing better to do]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 00:13:13 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 17 00:18:27 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[It's intersting to read a book from this period by this author, but honestly that's the best thing I can say about it - the main plot device was betrayed to me for many years beforehand by hollywood and the media in general, almost certainly ripped of from Ms Sayers in any case, so the whole idea si...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10542428">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3675100">
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    <name><![CDATA[Writerlibrarian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Canada]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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    <body><![CDATA[The novel where we meet Harriet Vane, mystery writer accused of poisoning her ex-lover just like she wrote in one of her novels. We are introduced to Harriet via Lord Peter's infatuation with her and him realizing that he's fallen for the one woman who probably will not readily accept his marriage p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3675100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Far more than simply a great mystery, this is a wondrously written book with superb characters [with fantastic senses of humour -- while I adore my friends, who wouldn't love to be friends with Lord Peter Wimsey?:], entertaining and vivid scenes and writing and a story that makes you want to keep re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63569480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a mystery fanatic but I've always steered clear of this famous author because her sleuth is &quot;Lord Peter Whimsey&quot; He acts exactly like his name sounds - a big english sissy pants - monocle and all who says &quot;I say&quot; about every two minutes.  However, I decided to finally try Lor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51631086">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This a Lord Peter/Harriet Vane mystery, in fact this book starts off the relationship with Lord Peter meeting Harriet while she is on trial for poisoning her lover.  If you have not read the series, they are set in ~1930s London and elsewhere in England.  Lord Peter is a wealthy aristocrat who solve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11915458">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Gaudy Night, I really wanted to go back and see how Harriett and Peter all began. This was great fun, much more of a standard &quot;mystery&quot; than Gaudy Night was. Sayers is brilliant when it comes to believable clues and providing fun aspects to her story (some poking fun at &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56478297">more...</a>]]></body>
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