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    <body><![CDATA[Mildly amusing, somewhat rambling portrayal of a decidedly dysfunctional family. It's occasionally funny and it's occasionally poignant. Unfortunately, it's neither of these things consistently enough to compensate for a thin, rather aimless plot.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Often, rich people can get away with eccentricity, but everyone in this wealthy New England family is portrayed as stark raving mad lunatics, as seen through the eyes of conservative Collie Flanagan, the only one in his house who seems driven to work for a living. His mother, a self-proclaimed revol...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58307883">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apologize, Apologize is an off beat debut novel by Elizabeth Kelly. The audio version which I listened to was fairly well done by Jeff Woodman.<br/><br/>In this story, Collie ( yes....named after a dog) Flanagan, tells the story of his eccentric relatives, most of whom are alcoholics living on Mar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54653671">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>Apologize, Apologize!</strong><br/>Written By: Elizabeth Kelly<br/>Published By: Twelve, an Imprint of Grand Central Publishing, 2009, First Edition, 336 pages, hardcover<br/>ISBN 978-0446406147<br/>(Available NOW!)<br/><br/><strong>Apologize, Apologize!</strong> is a truly incredible novel. With an original plot and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46973133">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved a lot of this book. The first half of it was engaging and very funny. But at about the halfway point, something happens that changes the tone of the book...or it should. There are two pretty major things that happen that should affect the tone of the book, and the voice of the narrator, Coll...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66125448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have to trust that Kelly knows what she's doing, because for the first third to half of the book, while the reader is surely having a jolly good time, the reader also can't help but wonder if she's heading somewhere. She is.<br/><br/>While not a brilliantly plotted novel, watching Collie come ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50387924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to know what happens when a thoughtful, sensible child is born into a flamboyantly dysfunctional family, read this book.  Collie (named after a dog) Flanagan and his brother Bingo (named after another dog) grow up in a world ruled by the insane biases or drunken whims of the way-over-the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58905634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book about the very dysfunctional Flanagans of Martha’s Vineyard.  At the centre is Collie Flanagan who is caught in the firestorm of his family – his crazy unloving bitch of a mother, his loving yet drunk and philandering father, his alcoholic uncle, his billionaire and cont...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67710902">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't have given this a four-star rating as I was reading it, but somehow thinking back over it, I feel it deserves it.  It wasn't the type of book that kept me hanging on to every page.  But there was something endearing about Collie that made me want to keep reading, despite the ridiculousnes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77806187">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[LOVED this book!  This was a selection of the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wowOwow.com">wowOwow.com</a> book club.  I really expected to come on here and read lots of positive feedback and was surprised at not finding much.  I agree wholeheartedly with reviewer Mary... it is the best book I've read this year and, like her, enjoyed Life of Pi al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50097290">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Collie Flanagan was born on the day JFK was assassinated.  His family is insanely rich and somewhat eccentric.  Collie’s mother, Anais, is very open about the fact that his brother, Bingo, is her favorite.  As a matter of fact, it seems like everyone in the family favors Bingo, except Anais’s fa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38549145">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half of this book had me laughing out loud.  The dysfunctional Irish family was so crazy that you had to laugh at their antics or cry (think Tenenbaums).  The second half of the book was not nearly as enchanting.  It sort of rambled on like one of Pop's drunken stories.  I still gave it fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60499631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend this book. It's associations are Irish-american, money, Atlantic coast New England. The characters are colorful and eccentric, and as a family - a dysfunctional tour de force. The writing is breezy, meaning that it carrys you, and not the other way around. The author obviously has a grea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55985100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story is told by the &quot;normal&quot; child in a very crazy family.  The 2 sons are named after dogs.  Their mother is insane, their father is an alcoholic.  They live in a family home in Martha's Vineyard during the 1980s along with the father's brother, who is also a drunk.  The mother's fat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65354117">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This author really knows how to put a good sentence together.  The story is about a boy named Collie (his whacko mom loved dogs) and how he managed to stay sane and grow to be a decent human being in the midst of the most dysfunctional family ever to exist.  It makes you laugh out loud and shed a te...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51244191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful dialogue and well-drawn characters, this story of Collie Flanagan, alternates between hilarity and despair.  He is the only semi-sane person in his extremely dysfunctional family.  This book is a case where I wish we could give half stars; the only thing that kept me from rating this four ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80455063">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[3 1/2 stars.  I listened to the tape and I think the reader could have done a beetr job. It was read in too sarcastic a voice. It was a humorous and poignant story. Wealthy, flawed New England (Irish Heritage) family.  Collie is the eldest son and the narrator, he is fairly normal and very unlucky i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75575924">more...</a>]]></body>
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