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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite quote from this book, which also sums it up nicely: &quot;Feeding on blood is a tough way to make a living.&quot;<br/><br/>Schutt, an expert on vampire bats, has written an easily-read treatise on some of the more interesting &quot;obligate sanguivores&quot; (love this term!) that inha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43714779">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating, humoruous and bizarre: this book has everything I look for in non-fiction.  My husband learned far more than he ever wanted to know about vampire bats, leeches, bed bugs and blood while I was reading this book--it's the sort of volume that compels the reader to exclaim aloud &quot;WOW! ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52286755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Aimed at the armchair biologist, this book was actually pretty entertaining.  It was the most amusing biology book I've ever read - the author threw in quite a few dryly humourous observations that I enjoyed.  I originally picked it up because I like reading about bats, but the section of the book w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46833176">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     Bill likes bats.  Bill studies bats for a living.  Bill writes lovingly and knowledgeably about bats.  So Bill, stick to what you know and write a book about bats.  <br/>     Once the opening chapter about vampire bats ends (after taking up about a third of the book) Bill is obviously on less f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46613705">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book over all.  However, the section of the book about the author's studies of vampire bats in Trinidad was incredible!  One of the best things I've ever read.  It helps that I'm a big ol' bat geek, but it really is well written, with lots of relevant footnotes (dude, don't ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45238729">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was informative, and at its strongest when focusing on the author's specialty (vampire bats). But it was also inconsistent, jumping between topics and pushing a lot of tangential discussions. The author does a nice job getting the science right, but at times the primers on basic evolutionar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46851252">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It seems appropriate that I read this book about vampire bats and other &quot;blood sucking&quot; creatures on Friday the 13th. <br/>Bill Schutt writes a very readable book about the creepy, crawly creatures we shudder about, with little related side digressions in other scientific, historic, and c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49190897">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to pepper some non-fiction into my reading regularly, and with my current vampire fetish this caught my eye. The author is a biologist who's specialty is vampire bats, so those sections are by far the most in depth and interesting. He can get bogged down in technical jargon at times, and his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50107447">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[     This is awesome! Well-written, descriptive, funny, digressive, and filled with enthusiasm, this amalgation of blood facts and fables, natural history and myths, scientific details and humorous asides,and funny little drawings was fun to read. <br/>    Of course I liked the first part about vam...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49256362">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, I am cheating to rate this because I haven't finished it yet, but the author had me at &quot;the curious lives of blood-feeding creatures.&quot; I might have said blood-sucking, were I writing the title. But that's a small nitpick. Or mosquito-suck. It's extremely fun and no doubt useful to know...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45415338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun! Like a Smithsonian article, it's a natural history book about creatures that eat blood, mainly bats, leeches, and ticks. It's gross but in a good way. Did you know that some vampire bats can imitate baby chicks in order to sneak up on the mama chicken?<br/><br/>Grade: A<br/>Recommended: To peop...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66335226">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the author had just focussed on bats. It seemed a little scattered. I kept on cringing, as I am a bit scared of leeches, and bed bugs and ticks, which all get their own chapters in this book. Still, I felt like...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45526940">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really thought this was interesting stuff!  However, the author has so many asides and tangents that it detracts from the meat of the book.  Also, it's hard to tell when to stop skimming and start reading again (if you want to skip said parts).<br/><br/>If I can't find another book on this topic, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51051667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you really wanted a fun read about blood sucking creatures this is it. Funny, insightful, interesting, and engaging!<br/><br/>Charnel House- house structre used to store bones<br/><br/>Soucouy Ants- Trinidad - Local superstition of human sized blood feeders<br/>old crones that shed their ski...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53609811">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Illuminating! Inspiring! Oh, Bill Schutt, your snappy prose, love of learning, and lifetime of research whetted my appetite and fueled my cocktail party chatter. <br/><br/>I'm particularly grateful for the stylized sketches of vampire bats, for the history of a Parisian sociopath with cow's blood ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49761746">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very informative and fun to read. Schutt is stronger when he writes about bats, the book gets a little weaker in the second half. One annoying thing: a huge number of seemingly unnecessary footnotes, which break up the reading flow every time you come across one. I don't know what the editor thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56040632">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What could be more interesting than vampire bats, leeches, ticks, mites, bed bugs, chiggers, mosquitos, candirus and a vampire finch?<br/><br/>Dark Banquet is an interesting and lively written book filled with facts and humor than will have the more imaginative reader scratching their nether regio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38606531">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What a fun, albeit squirm-inducing book. The chapters about bats were easier to read than the chapter about bedbugs. *shudder* Schutt is genuinely funny and irreverent. The book is a delight, if you like this sort of thing. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first portion of this book - primarily about bats - I found interesting, informative and funny. The middle section - on blood - was informative. The last section, especially the part about bed bugs, made me want to bleach my entire house. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Put on pause, pg. 50. I like the tone, the line drawings and the unusual topic. But other books are calling my name--there's simply too much to read!]]></body>
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