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  <title><![CDATA[The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes]]></title>
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  <default_description>The week it hit the stores, Weirdos from Another Planet! touched down at No. 1 on Walden's and B. Dalton's bestseller lists and No. 2 on the New York Times bestseller list.  How do you top such success? With The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, a large-format treasury of the cartoons from Yukon Ho! and Weirdos from Another Planet! (including full-color Sunday cartoons) plus a full-color original story unique to this collection. Its reservation on the top of the national bestseller lists is already confirmed!  Millions of readers have responded ot the tremendous talent of Bill Watterson. His skill as both artist and writer brings to life a boy, his tiger, and the imagination and memories of his ardent readers.  After five years of syndication and six bestselling collections, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes picks up where The Essential Calvin and Hobbes left off - bringing more of the irresistible antics of Calvin and his magical sidekick Hobbes to millions of eager fans around the globe.  As the strip's phenomenal success witnesses, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes is the authority on humor.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[The comic strip &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot; was, and continues to be, like the best gifts, unexpected and undeserved.  It touches all the bases, from highbrow, considerably exclusive wit, to pricelessly rendered slapstick, to flat-out potty humor, to laugh-out-loud (loud!) knockout punchlines, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4156454">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about a six year old boy and his best friend (who is a stuffed tiger) Hobbes.  This duo spells trouble.  Calvin thinks Hobbes is real but he is a stuffed animal but Calvin pretends to make Hobbes do things and his mom gets mad at Calvin but he blames it on Hobbes!<br/><br/>Calvin isn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24397723">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1987</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the comic that relates the adventures of Calvin and his toy tiger, Hobbes. Hobbes is seen by Calvin's parents as a plush toy and by Calvin and the reader as a pouncing and amiable &quot;real&quot; tiger — Calvin's slightly-more-sensible better half.<br/><br/>I enjoyed the early years of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68470741">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 04 14:10:06 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[May not be great literature, but Bill Watterson sees something which most of us don't. My life has been diminished by not having the joy of opening the daily paper to some new insight to ourselves through his eyes.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What else can I say? Part artist, part superhero, part ladies man.  Calvin has the style that the ladies are beggin for...and his tiger is pretty fly too.<br/><br/>Imagination is a wonderful thing]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[its a fun read<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="73775961">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the most perceptive, thought-provoking, and truly funny cartoon strips ever created!  Watterson not only nails life, he's hilarious.  He addresses everything from philosophy to film noir.  I was actually saddened when I learned he was quitting the strip!  Thank goodness we've got his books to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73775961">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever since I started my Garfield phase, everyone kept trying to get me to read Calvin and Hobbes, but the summary they gave me (It's about a boy and his stuffed tiger) wasn't selling it.<br/>Anyway, I finally agreed to give one a try. This happens to be the first one I ever read, and I absolutely l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69773854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is among the books published by Bill Watterson from the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip that I have enjoyed. My children have literally worn out these collections of C&amp;H comics, and with good reason. C&amp;H is a unique blend of homespun philosophy, side-splitting humor, and insight into the human (c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65607318">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Never fully understood, but this is my childhood.<br/>I own a bunch of these, and I truly feel like they serve the purpose of a family photo. They're beautifully insightful works that say so much in so little time.<br/>I can appreciate something that stands the test of time (childhood to adulthood...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66390848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was the first Calvin and Hobbes collection I read. It was fourth grade and I obtained my own copy last year around Christmas. I've found that as I get older and wiser in some ways, the strip has more resonance and hilarity. Of the comic strip in general, it touches on the deepest roots of human...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64033856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bill Watterson captured the world through the eyes of a little boy who loves his pet stuffed tiger. Calvin tries to see the world as his playground and with the help of Hobbes (his stuffed tiger) he helps us see the humor in the unlikeliest places. A joy to read and share with those that see the hum...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40068627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Calvin is always fun to read, and this book is no exception. Classic strips include the one where Calvin's dad tells Calvin the story about &quot;the hydraulic pump (fig. 1), the wheel shaft flange (fig. 2) and the evil patent infringement&quot;, and a couple of years' worth of camping strips (it ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67807621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It just doesn't pretend to be anything revelatory or world-shaking or...more than something amusing and thoughful. That's what makes me love it so much. A very small world, a tiny case-study cast...but just so spot-on. I love the thoughts; even more, I love the questions. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like the other hardcover treasuries, this one contains the earlier trade paperbacks in a large, hard bound form. I already had the earlier books but couldn't resist getting the hardcover treasury editions.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is just AMAZING and I read it whenever I'm bored and I get bored alot. It's about a kid named Calvin and his stuffed animal tiger Hobbes. His parents get driven crazy by him.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep this book in my bathroom and read it all the time.  I love the expressions that Bill Watterson gets out of his characters!  Truly one of the best comic strips of all time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite all time Sunday comic strips.  This little boy, Calvin, with his spiked hair and imagination the size of the world, struck a chord with me.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will always give high reviews for Calvin and Hobbes.  It is the best comic strip ever written, in my opinion, and I love each and every book.]]></body>
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