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    <body><![CDATA[i don't know why people who've read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1618.The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Dog_in_the_Night_time_" title="The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time  by Mark Haddon">the curious incident of the dog in the night-time</a> would find this second novel a let-down. it seems to me equally tender, sweet, and heartbreaking. it's also hilariously funny. haddon does heartbreaking and funny with such grace, simplicity, and verbal virtuosity,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44055253">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[People going into Mark Haddon's latest novel, A Spot of Bother expecting anything like his smash-hit debut, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time are going to be sorely disappointed. And rightfully so, because if Haddon had reproduced the same sort of story as he did in his first novel, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24202511">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very entertaining and intelligent &quot;page-turner&quot;, which is a rare combination of traits. As a story told from four well-written viewpoints, it succeeds in evoking an emotional connection with the characters. But I worry about too much modern fiction presenting the literary equivalent of s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12506283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Having read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" title=" Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"> Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</a>, I expected my sophomore foray into Haddon's style of novel-writing to be a bit of a departure. If you don't know already the book was written from the point-of-view of a boy with Asperger's Syndrome (a functional form of Autism) and deliver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6089677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As we approach the end of my first year of recorded and reviewed reading, I have read almost no bad books. The Fermata was bad, but the guy could write, he just decided to write something we all thought was fucking awful.<br/><br/>This was a bad book.<br/><br/>Oh how do I hate this book? Let me ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26419749">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not really sure what to say about this one. I really can't generate strong feelings one way or another on its behalf. It wasn't bad but it wasn't good - and conversely, it wasn't good but it wasn't bad. It had likable moments and parts that I laughed at. And some of Haddon's descriptions were pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13319593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was much better than I thought it would be. I found myself drawn into it unlike other novels which lately don't seem to hold my interest. <br/><br/>The writing style is completely different from &quot;The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time&quot; which was refreshing. He showed...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/523972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious!!!! What a wonderful story, that kept me laughing the whole time. Haddon does a wonderful job giving his characters life. It made me wonder what I'll be like when I retire will I be as crazy and eccentric as the main character.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First the quibbles: Haddon's a young guy. He has a young guy's perspective, which is to say, a limited perspective. His portrayals of the middle-aged are in places laughable. Mark, I've got to tell you: people over fifty don't think the world belongs to the young. They don't think they're obsolete. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10479548">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Spot of Bother <br/>Mark Haddon<br/>New York: Vintage Books, 2006<br/><br/>Mark Haddon returns. <br/>Having triumphantly fascinated worldwide readers with his Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, he now comically and touchingly portrays the life of an english family approaching the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5930993">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Talking was, in George's opinion, overrated.  You could not turn the television on these days without seeing someone discussing their adoption or explaining why they had stabbed their husband.  Not that he was averse to talking.  Talking was one of life's pleasures.  And everyone needed to sou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4313766">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, here's how this breaks down:<br/><br/><strong>Book about a real-life serial killer</strong><br/>Trin: I think I'll read this my first night in a strange, new apartment, in an unfamiliar neighborhood, when I'm all alone, and almost all the lights are off! La la la!<br/><br/><strong>Book featuring one plot thread a...</strong><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1639808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I can see why certain fans don't like this one as much as Haddon's first book, I liked it just as well.  It has the same flavor as the first, but with multiple main characters instead of just one.  Mark Haddon still does a fantastic job of showing rather than telling in terms of his charact...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17079862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you can get past the first 200 pages, this turns out to be a vaguely compelling read.  but really, getting through the 1st 200 pages of someone's book, just for the remaining 80 pages isn't my idea of a fun time.  if only it was a nice little novella or short story!  it ultimately was an ok exper...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44469684">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suspect this novel was whipped up to fulfill the second book  of the author's deal with the publisher -- and given the phenomenal success of the author's first book, the publisher went ahead with it. &quot;A Spot Of Bother&quot; lacks any of the precision and warmth and surprise of &quot;A Curious...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43963147">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got a liking for this book from the first page. At first glance,we have an ordinary family story- a daughter who wants to marry the wrong man (or at least her parents think so), a homosexual son who has just splitted with his boyfriend, a wife who is guilty of adultery,and a husband who is going m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35483565">more...</a>]]></body>
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