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    <body><![CDATA[Once again I have to say, I'm not big into fantasy, but I fell hard with Boots and Gregor!  I finished listening to this one on audio and immediately sought out its sequel Prophecy of Bane;  I finished that one and grabbed Curse of the Warmbloods.  Now I'm ready for Marks of Secret - but it's not av...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19446616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The covers of the <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/262430.Gregor_the_Overlander_The_Underland_Chronicles_Book_One_" title="Gregor the Overlander (The Underland Chronicles  Book One) by Suzanne Collins">Underland Chronicles</a> do them no end of disservice.  Since my policy is to judge a book by its cover, it took reading <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2767052.The_Hunger_Games" title="The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins">The Hunger Games</a> to convince me to pick them up.  I had always assumed they would be machine generated chapter books with mythical creatures protecting or seeking so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45528518">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no part of it -- until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Reluctantly, Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure that will change both him and the Underland forever.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I LOVE GREGOR! This is by far one of the best series I've read in a long time. Gregor is a working class kid in urban NYC struggling to keep his family (mom, 2 sisters, grandma) going since his dad mysteriously disappeared years before. In a twisted Alice in Wonderland sort of thing, he falls down a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48751838">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[so this is how superweak my life is: on friday i rushed home from work in the rain to get some homework done. whee... but then i ended up writing that wuthering heights review, inspired by the rain and the clouds etc. and i did some work, but not a ton. and i thought to myself, what do i really want...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80062921">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Promising myself to read this, I pulled a copy off the shelving cart Thursday, and then forgot it.  Pulled it off the shelf yesterday and started it.  Whoa! Forget exposition!  We're into the action by page 13!  And giant cockroaches!  No one told me there would be cockroaches.  Nor did anyone tell ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73291865">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Far exceeded expectations! An urban twist on the &quot;fantasy quest&quot; theme. Hearing that the story contained cockroaches and rats, I had not been eager to pick it up. But by the end of the story, I was crying when a cockroach died. That's storytelling power.<br/><br/>John Eldredge notes that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51164118">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ok, re-reading my review. Again, a female author w/ a boy hero.  There are great female characters, but I'm irritated at this trend.  However, this is a great book. Blue cried at one point, the first time he had ever cried from the death of a  literary character - a cockroach too! It was a little sc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31089152">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[When Gregor falls through a grate in the laundry room of his apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland, where spiders, rats, cockroaches coexist uneasily with humans. This world is on the brink of war, and Gregor's arrival is no accident. A prophecy foretells that Gregor has a role to play in the Underland's uncertain future. Gregor wants no part of it -- until he realizes it's the only way to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance. Reluctantly, Gregor embarks on a dangerous adventure that will change both him and the Underland forever.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books I never thought I'd read. I had no clue what it was even about. All I knew was that somewhere down the line, one of the books in the series had a huge rat battling a boy on the cover, and that didn't interest me. That idea on it's own still doesn't do much for me, but havi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76063245">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book.  It was, as a young adult book should be, a super fast read that was totally engaging.  The Underland was described in enough detail for the imagination to get really cranking, and it posed enough questions about the life there to leave room for plenty of sequels.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45796714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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