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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gary Cheese is 19 and works for British Telecom as an operator. His hobbies include watching TV, walking his dog, going down to the pub, and attempting to re-animate the dead.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Robert Rankin's books are kind of like a really good BBC television show.  Superficially, they don't take a lot of brainpower to comprehend, they're hysterically funny, and there are really only like, six characters in the whole series.  Conversely, the real reason they're so funny is because there'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15290549">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not as good as the Witches of Chiswick. But, still a good read. Dark humor, which I love!!! ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 25 04:04:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Fandom of the Operator by Robert Rankin (2002)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hillarious.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Zombies, bureaucracy, and government conspiracy?  What's not to love, &quot;if you know what I mean, and I think you do.&quot;  <br/>Seriously, Robert Rankin isn't for everyone, but if you like really twisted British humor (or Christopher Moore), you'll enjoy this book, which I found to be the best ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13897757">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book wasn't half bad, but compared to other Robert Rankin books I've known and loved it was lacking.  It wasn't the fact that there wasn't really anyone to sympathize with (that's not uncommon, and yet I find myself sympathizing usually, anyway) or that it lacked a wacky premise.  What I finall...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34030994">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Everyone who likes zombies and laughing]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very silly book. At first I thought it was a bit too silly, but then it turned out there was a plot in there too!<br/><br/>A very silly plot, mind you. But it was a lot of fun, involving zombies, mad dead authors and telephones where you could speak to the dead. (So long as you knew when...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2358322">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 01 13:07:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my second Robert Rankin book.  I tend to love books with random humor but I think this one was actually too random and weird for me &quot;if you know what I mean, and I think you do.&quot;  There was a plot but it seemed to wander a lot.  I also expected to laugh a lot more than I did.  Ove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28891184">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Robert Rankin experience.  There's nothing like him out there.  It's like a cross between Monty Python and Pulp Fiction.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read a book by this author already and enjoyed it so I'd like to read another.]]></body>
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