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    <body><![CDATA[The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action is by far one of the funniest books I have ever read. The book has no real linear story but it is extremely funny and says a lot about the world we live in and the people who are in it. The book can generally be called tongue and cheek, but I think that the tho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8856405">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book when sending out Darwin Award stories in e-mail to your friends was &quot;cool&quot;. After reading the book I realized that reading one or two in your in-box beat sitting down and reading a whole book of them. <br/><br/>If you like to read on the can this would be a good book to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38338339">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>This book, a companion to the website of hte same name, was a quick and enjoyable read. Great stories of urban legends, and of actual Darwin Award winners: those who &quot;ensure the long term survival of our species by removing themselves from the gene pool in a sublimely idiotic fashion.&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[These books are kinda horrifying.  They portray these people's deaths as a funny anecdote.  This is a portrayal of how our society has become desensitized to the point of not even caring about death except as a casually funny story.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This books contains compilation of Human stupidity. The story describe how crazy idea is implemented and ended in tragedy. Although the reading is quite interesting, it is told on formal languange. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I gave this book as a birthday gift because I thought it would be entertaining. At the party we sat around listening to the stories that were read in it. It was kind of depressing in a funny way. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this book hilarious. now I know better than to speak ill of the dead but come on. most of these people really asked for it. What in the world WERE they thinking? LoL]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny for sure and a great book to pick up and read anytime, though not particularly well written. The wordplay used by the author can be distracting and obnoxious. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What could be more funny than a book about people doing soo many stupid things that they end up killing themselves? Of these are true and are not fictional.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome bathroom book, best read in small doses.<br/>Not too informative or special, just another of those blogs-turned-book cases, but still entertaining.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Seriously, who could make this shit up? If you make it into this book, you've effectively removed yourself from the world and the gene pool--thank god!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a funny compilation of stories about how people remove themselves from the gene pool (unfortunately by dying).]]></body>
    
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