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  <title><![CDATA[The Book of Liz]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2002</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not only is this a great script to read (and authentic David Sedaris, with an equal measure of Amy mixed in, which just makes it all the more wacky), but the play was one of the best things I've seen on stage in 10 years.  Of course, I also saw it in LA, where every actor who was in it was concurren...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47620955">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 03 04:10:47 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious. I wish the other plays they wrote together (Little Frieda Mysteries, etc) were available. I saw several of them as originals at La Mama, and they are hands down the most fun nights I've ever spent in a theater.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 17 15:37:12 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this outloud to a friend using a different voice or acecnt for each character in the script.  It was pretty entertaining.  The Sedaris family is absolutely hilarious!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40334738]]></url>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Apr 07 18:25:00 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[a funny and interesting little play. i bet it would be Very funny (ha ha) staged, but for reading it is much more funny intriguing.]]></body>
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    <review id="34091055">
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  <date_added>Sun Sep 28 20:53:31 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 28 20:58:25 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I performed in a production of <em>The Book of Liz</em> at the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bltgroup.org">Butler Little Theatre</a>. <br/><br/>The audiences were not what you might expect for a strange and satirical play like this -- they were small town folks in a generally conservative area. A few people took offense, writing to the local paper, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34091055">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71764561">
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, technically I saw the play, but that's just like reading it in a more fun way.]]></body>
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    <review id="44176151">
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    <body><![CDATA[Actually saw the play, didn't read it.  It was GREAT!]]></body>
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    <review id="60065191">
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    <name><![CDATA[Muiread]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious collaboration between 2 of my favorite people :)]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60065191]]></url>
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    <review id="49836663">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lindsey]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 19 21:10:21 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Even better to go see the play!]]></body>
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    <review id="69982236">
    <user id="287543">
    <name><![CDATA[Derick]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny quick read!]]></body>
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    <review id="13692837">
    <user id="838243">
    <name><![CDATA[Jennifer]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 26 23:57:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually didn't read this, but I saw the play performed at local theatre.  IT was good, but not as &quot;David Sedaris&quot; as expected.  The play was about a woman from a cult-type religious compound deciding to leave and see what the rest of the world had to offer.  The subject didn't really fe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13692837">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46814818">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jenn]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Mar 20 07:13:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the silliest book ever, but for some reason it really made me laugh.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="21964414">
    <user id="1152138">
    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[this play, written by david sedaris and the lead performed originally by amy, is about an amish lady who has a disease where she sweats profusely, constantly. she ventures out into the &quot;real world&quot; to see what it's like... it's hilarious!]]></body>
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    <review id="5071211">
    <user id="145335">
    <name><![CDATA[Karen]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Aug 24 18:26:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short play by two of the funniest people.  Whenever I read something by one of the Sedaris' I can't help but wonder what it would be like to be a part of that family.  Or better yet...what it's like to be their parents.]]></body>
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    <review id="1126005">
    <user id="69929">
    <name><![CDATA[Louise]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[twisted firestarters]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Grotesque, hilarious, extreme but somehow touching. Stranger than Strangers with a weirdly sensitive underbelly. Truly an unholy child formed by the union of the most hilarious brother and sister.]]></body>
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    <review id="36990976">
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  <date_added>Wed Nov 05 17:08:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard this guy reading his work on NPR the other day... it was hysterical, I've decided that I have to own everything he's written... :) ]]></body>
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    <review id="6627487">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adam]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this little play on the subway - its weird and funny, what you would expect from the Sedarises. But nothing special, just sort of funny. ]]></body>
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    <review id="29662027">
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    <name><![CDATA[Linster]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Parts of this play tickled me to the point of scaring my cats. But as a whole, it doesn't quite work. Same reaction seeing it performed.]]></body>
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