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    <body><![CDATA[Contrived and overly mannered little fable. I must be missing something, as the Amazon &amp; Goodreads reviews are uniformly raves, and it came highly recommended. But I thought the level of cleverness never rose above naming the main character Fup Duck.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A hilarious little fairytale that is constantly surprising. Lots of practical wisdom is hidden between these lines. Characters: Granddad Jake, who is 99 and convinced he's immortal Grandson Tiny, who is obsessed with building fences Fup, a giant hen mallard, who turns up one day and becomes a mistre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16191652">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Essentially a piece of Southern fiction, <em>Fup</em> mainly takes place during the 99th year of Kentuckian Jake Santee's life--a man who came out to California during the gold rush and stayed.  Now he lives with Tiny--his beefy, 22-year-old, fence-building-zealot, mountain-man grandson--and a 20-pound duck ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81296845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My boss told me she's got this book called _Fup_. I looked it up and it looked neat. Well, today, the day after mentioning it, she shows up with it.<br/><br/>Every so often a little story, a little novella, unfolds a world and characters in less than 100 pages that floors you a bit and leaves your i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68196755">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantastic little gem of a book about two men and a duck in the American west. Jim Dodge is the king of modern-day rock and roll tall tales.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In the coastal hills of northern California live three larger-than-life characters: two humans and one duck.  There's Grandaddy Jake Santee, 99 years old, an unreformed gambler, cranky reprobate and fierce opponent of the work ethic. And Tiny, adopted at the age of four by Grandaddy Jake, he's a giant young man as gentle as Jake is belligerent.  And then there's Fup, an uncompromising twenty-pound hen mallard, whose unique presence imposes a sense of order on the Santee household.  Hilarious, heartwarming and magical, Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all who read it. It is a work of enormous originality with a giant heart.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Marvellous, short, unmissable. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The blurb at the back of Fup, a novella by Jim Dodge, says: &quot;Fup is a contemporary fable that inspires an almost evangelical fervour in all those who read it.&quot; I've read it – it was one of my Xmas presents – and I'm still waiting for that &quot;evangelical fervour&quot; to hit me. I gu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42040813">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought and read <em>Fup</em> after the book's title caught my eye at a used bookstore.<br/><br/>This is a funny, meander-y, and occasionally bawdy short novel about four unlikely characters:<br/><br/>1) FUP, an obese (thus flightless) female duck who communicates in quacks, hisses, and pecks. She loves...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12399489">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The only book that I have ever laughed out loud at!<br/>I heard Jim Dodge speaking at Borders a few years after I read it and his voice was exactly the one that was talking in my head whilst reading. I've lent my beautiful little hard back copy to almost everyone I know, that's probably how it got l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54105791">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[weird stuff...loved the tone and at 60 pages you can't go wrong. The ending was unexpected, and sort of worked...great journey but not sure exactly where I arrived. Reminded me of Rick Bass in short story mode.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is really short - a little over 100 small pages.  This would be a good book to have by your bedside or for a plane ride. It's a fun story with a few great characters. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;He didn't think it was too bad a story even if it was probably bullshit. He turned off the light and dozed.&quot; Exactly.<br/><br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[great book for traveling or if you have an hour or two to spare.  good stuff.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[nice story. short, fun, pleasant. tom robbins trying to be richard brautigan.]]></body>
    
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