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    <body><![CDATA[If you like cynical humor you'll love it! This book follows Novel's day to day life as things continue to get worse and worse for him. Novel's determined to write an autobiography but realizes there's a lot he doesn't know about his wife, her family, his own adopted brother and sister and the town h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24616198">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was like being on acid.  All over the place and really odd.  I could not get into it and the author could not stay focused.  The book did have some rather quite humorous descriptive scenes, but overall the book was choppy and nerve-wracking in how it flipped back and forth between time per...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1119444">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I ended up giving this one two stars.  I didn't hate it, but I didn't quite like it, either.<br/><br/>Frankly, what I needed was a &quot;it was weird&quot; button!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mildly funny at first, but &quot;one-liner&quot; writing style quickly becomes consistently irritating. Don't waste your time. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't read this book!<br/>Read his other books, but stay away from this one.<br/>It's a mess]]></body>
    
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