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    <body><![CDATA[Is Alan from Mars? Can you make Omega Waves? Why is Leonard Neeble allowed to smoke cigars? Who are those time-traveling bikers, and why are they addicted to chili? Pinkwater is the imagination you fantasize you have. All of his novels should be read repeatedly.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Our main character moves to a new school and is thrilled to finally make a friend, Alan Mendelsohn. Alan and our main character go in search of comic books and end up with a machine that allows a person to control other people’s thoughts and actions. Will it work? And is Alan really from Mars?<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my best friends recommended Daniel Pinkwater to me, and this is one of the short novels from his book 5 Novels.  I LOVE IT!!!  It is adolescent science fiction, so maybe not for everyone, but I don't love science fiction and I loved it.  It is just so great; I can't really say anything else.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my absolute favorite growing up.  I must have read it 50 times!  I still love it and am in the process of getting another copy so my 12 year old son can read it and hopefully enjoy it as much as I did!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found a list of books I read during the summer when I was about 14. This was one of them. I don't remember anything about it, but I pretty much love anything Daniel Pinkwater touches.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Pinkwater, read for a personal project. Very interesting and enjoyably wacky without getting irritatingly out there.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had typed up the author's note, but goodreads ate it.<br/><br/>This is a weird book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite young-adult book of all time. Period. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I remember the title of this book from childhood, so I must have read it years (dare I say decades?) ago.  It didn't hold up all that well upon re-reading.  It's a very strange book - entertaining enough, but very, very strange.  If you like oddball books and are a sci-fi fan, this might be a good c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7559388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it!  What an adventure.  Thanks for recommending, Gloria!!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Delightful.  Thats what it is.  And not as ridiculous as I remembered.  Silly, of course, but there is a story there as well, and I enjoyed every minute.  Every awkward kid needs an Alan Mendelsohn. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic of staggeringly original proportions, plus I had a friend who convinced me he was an alien, but did not manage to save me from my teen years.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[5 stars is based on my feelings for this book when I first read it, in the 3rd or 4th grade, I think. I loved this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed how I thought of spirituality. Just because something works, doesn't mean that's what it's for.]]></body>
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