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    <body><![CDATA[<em>&quot;You must read this book!&quot; the Reviewer cried,<br/>As he searched for a suitable rhyme<br/>But as long as he stole more than half of the words<br/>He was sure he would get there in time.<br/>&quot;You must read this book!&quot; I have said it twice<br/>&quot;Do you think I would lead ...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38681349">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fantastically fun book, and I would recommend it to anybody who has enjoyed Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass or any other story by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson). It's a short narrative poem, and worth the the read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you don't get the annotated version, you may be left wondering about the bathing-machines and why the snark's life could be threatened with railway-shares.  It's still a fun book without the background material, but I think the annotations add to the value.<br/><br/>Carroll said he wrote this p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52138288">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I've always wondered if our relatively new use of the word &quot;snark,&quot; to mean &quot;kinda snide and dismissive&quot; came from this epic poem somehow. I don't think it did, really. Anyway.<br/><br/>Carroll's snark is a snake/shark monster that's being hunted by a group of Bs: a butcher...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7341646">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has the sense of humor of the Alice stories, but in a rhyme format. The poetry was good enough, but I didn't find any of it all that funny. I thought it was a bit predictable and boring.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You may be familiar with Martin Gardner's &quot;The Annotated Alice&quot;, but are you familiar with &quot;The Annotated Snark&quot;? Martin Gardner works his info-in-the-margins magic again on a lesser-known Lewis Carroll poem. Not as much has been written about this lesser work, but it's still fas...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10565265">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[forget abt douglas adams.  man, if you haven't read this, you just don't <em>know</em>. . . .]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For the Snark was a Boojum you see ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the ocean map.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Hunting of the Snark&quot; is in Anapestic Tetrameter]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The definitive guide to one of the most baffling epics of nineteenth-century literature&#151;a companion to <em>The Annotated Alice</em>.<br/><em>&quot;It's a Snark!&quot;&#133;for whatever else can it be?&quot;</em> Published on April Fools' Day in 1876, Lewis Carroll's <em>The Hunting of the Snark</em> remains one of the most amusing and bizarre works of modern verse. Carroll, who completed this classic poem eleven years after the publication of <em>Alice in Wonderland</em>, invites readers along on a fictitious hunt to determine who&#151;or what&#151;the Snark actually is. More than 130 years later, the indomitable Martin Gardner returns to the Snark with a trove of new annotations and illustrations, uncovering some of the most confounding literary, linguistic, and mathematical references embedded in any of Lewis Carroll's many works. Included in this gorgeous, two-color volume is an introduction by Adam Gopnik, as well as Henry Holiday's distinctive, original illustrations, a substantial bibliography, and a suppressed drawing of the infamous Boojum. With a host of other Snark resources, this is the most ambitious work on Lewis Carroll's masterpiece in many decades. Two-color throughout; 56 illustrations.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another work (the poem itself, that is) that I hadn't managed to read until very recently. How could I have missed it? As with his <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Annotated Alice" title="The Annotated Alice">The Annotated Alice</a>, Gardner teases out even Carroll's most obscure references.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes!!<br/><br/><em>...The last of the crew needs especial remark,<br/>Though he looked an incredible dunce:<br/>He had just one idea--but, that one being &quot;Snark,&quot;<br/>The good Bellman engaged him at once.</em>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My Grandfather and I used to read this together on any given occasion. It was my introduction to Lewis Carroll and serves as a reminder of youthful times with my Papa every time I revisit it. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my all time favorite book/nonsense poem. Me and my dad used to read it every fall together, it is forever the best of the best.]]></body>
    
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