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  <title><![CDATA[Mapp and Lucia (Penguin Modern Classics)]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1931</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[E.F. Benson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Aug 15 19:00:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 18 13:21:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected a little more from this book, but that's not to say I didn't like it.  These books are really well known and loved, but I'm totally new to them.  (Reminds me of a friend who as a child thought she had discovered a very unknown and small band called &quot;The Beatles&quot; of which she mus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67551463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17848876">
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 16 03:36:45 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 19 02:35:58 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, aka Lucia, used to being queen of her society in the village of Riseholme. When she moves to Tilling, a pretty village by the sea, she tries to wrest social control from the hideous Miss Mapp and a battle for social supremacy ensues. <br/>This is a very funn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17848876">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29189793">
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 04 03:05:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 04 03:13:36 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quick, fun read; pretty much what I expected from the description on the back. You can see at the same time why Auden was a fan and why it isn't that famous any more. It's sharp and clever and occasionally kind, but the characters aren't really vivid or lovable enough, or the prose quite brilliant e...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29189793">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38246864">
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    <location><![CDATA[West Hollywood, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 13:49:08 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 02 13:30:08 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the Lucia serie some years ago, and in French (which means I probably lacked a lot of the subtleties of Benson's writing), but I remember laughing out loud and being utterly charmed by his characters. It's hilarious, very British, and it says a lot about British society in a humorous, ironic,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38246864">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61708372">
    <user id="82944">
    <name><![CDATA[Bob]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 30 20:11:04 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 30 20:17:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[As with the prior books in the series, the references to period-specific (UK 1920s) culture give it some extra amusement and depth - this volume touches on exercise faddism (eurythmics, the first glimmerings of yoga in the West) and the still-controversial introduction of daylight saving time in the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61708372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55135943">
    <user id="162084">
    <name><![CDATA[Sherwood]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed May 06 08:22:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed May 06 08:26:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Total guilty pleasure.  I don't like the stories when Lucia is humiliated, because she has a good heart despite her snobbery. But what could be more fun than to see Mapp defeated?<br/><br/>When life is tough, there is nothing like relaxing with these stories, and revisiting the war of the poppy sk...]]></body>
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    <review id="10590129">
    <user id="682829">
    <name><![CDATA[Kat]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lakeland, FL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 17 17:10:02 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 02 11:34:03 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I adore these books - absolutely love Georgie and his bibelots. You just get lost in this tiny world of pugs, flowers, Queen this and that and just queens. You'll never hear Beethoven the same way again and Lucia is just perfect. These are period pieces, but they are filled with the quaint images of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10590129">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46126008">
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    <name><![CDATA[Elaine]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 12 05:46:05 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 12 05:49:49 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A series of six hilarious books, filled with silly characters doing silly things in small-town England (a fictional Rye); not for everyone--you have to like silly British humor.]]></body>
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    <review id="48793822">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sandy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[wonderfully comic tales of Lucia trying to take over as the social leader of a small English village - I have read all the Lucia stories and love them all ]]></body>
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    <review id="16784450">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alison]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Burleson, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Mar 01 13:55:38 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 12 14:23:50 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is as close to a perfect comic novel as I've ever read. Of course, it helps that I'm a fan of the small-English-village genre. (Why yes, I used to watch those English comedies on PBS on Sunday nights!) Benson brings together the two women who rule their respective villages and the result is a c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16784450">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38225393">
    <user id="226314">
    <name><![CDATA[Carmen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Nov 20 09:40:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 20 09:42:00 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time.  Social satire in provincial England from the 1920/30s.  I re-read the whole series about every other year. ]]></body>
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    <review id="60427362">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kathleen]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Jun 20 12:03:10 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 20 12:04:02 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[among the most fun series of books ever!<br/><br/>If I knew I'd be stranded on a desert isle, I think I'd bring these to take my mind completely off things]]></body>
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    <review id="51620957">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the funniest books I've read.  It got me through some crisis times by taking me into the wonderful, wicked world of Lucia.]]></body>
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    <review id="58747181">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cupertino, CA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Examiner~y2009m5d27-10-authors-Jane-Austen-fans-should-read" title="http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Examiner~y2009m5d27-10-authors-Jane-Austen-fans-should-read">http://www.examiner.com/x-562-Book-Exami...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1566460">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nancy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Palm Springs, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu May 31 13:23:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
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  <read_count>6?</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I just don't think books get any better than this. I adore Lucia and have read each of Benson's Lucia novels at least six times.  And, as many a Luciaphile has stated---the humor NEVER pales.<br/><br/>What's so funny? The tiny town of Tilling has a rather strict social structure and when two stron...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1566460">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64592948">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 22 18:58:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 22 18:58:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very funny book. These women are Vicious!]]></body>
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    <review id="3908896">
    <user id="241691">
    <name><![CDATA[Kay]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1981</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 01 09:56:37 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 28 10:24:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Battle of the titans!  This is probably my favorite book in the Mapp and Lucia series.  When Lucia moves in to Mapp's &quot;territory,&quot;  sparks are bound to fly -- and they do, spectacularly, but of course overlaid with a layer of civility that masks true feeling.  Benson is better at dissectin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3908896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2811522">
    <user id="171870">
    <name><![CDATA[Cheri]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[OK - this book is LOL funny. It is also the volume of the series in which one hears... wait for it... the wryly compassionate voice of... still waiting? Alexander McCall Smith. I came by this author because Smith mentioned him in an interview (still online at Powells, I think). <br/><br/>Some folk...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9873708">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel like such a slacker, but I just couldn't get into this book and I have so many other books to read that I decided to skip this one.  It's a classic and I am sure if I had the patience right now I would enjoy it, but I'll have to save it for later.  I didn't like any of the characters, but acc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14061049">more...</a>]]></body>
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