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    <body><![CDATA[A gift from my dad:)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Truly informative and entertaining, this book ROCKS. If you don't see yourself or some of your bosses in it, you're not reading carefully enough. Especially helpful are the little charts at the end of each section(though the way they are arranged is not visually convenient when the page changes) wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55654950">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was interesting; and there were a lot of fascinating anecdotes about crazy bosses, but it took a LONG time to get to its point and actual advice on how to deal with a different variety of crazy bosses.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually didn't finish this one. It wasn't what I expected it to be. I was hoping for something more &quot;ha ha&quot; funny...this book didn't live up to the hype in my opinion.]]></body>
    
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