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    <body><![CDATA[Meero, I jest read a fantseek byok.  Eet made me geeggle on the subvay, mostly.  Loved it.  The narration reminds me of Safran-Foer's Alex in Everything is Illuminated, but Young Adult plot etc.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this book and found it irritating.  The conventions used by the author to express the character's broken English were demeaning and insulting, both to the character and to me!  &quot;Aboard sheep,&quot; he writes, as he is bound for America on a cargo freighter.  This is not the kind of mi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40288509">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek look at illegal immigration and organ harvesting from the viewpoint of Vospop Vsklzwczdztwczky from Slobovia. OK but not my cup of tea.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Teenage Borat? David Ives writing for kids?]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is cracking me up. It's a series of letters (&quot;ladders&quot;) written by a 15-year-old boy who has illegally immigrated to the US from an imaginary country called Slobovia. The author is a playwright, among other things, and he is a master of witty wordplay.]]></body>
    
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