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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very fine entry in the all-too-small category of superb short comic novels.  <br/><br/>It's written in the second person by the person--guy, gal, it's never spelled out, it works either way--who is constantly doing better than you, constantly patronizing you, constantly stealing your ide...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58926268">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;...then I turned in that green form so I could graduate.  You know, the green form.  You didn't turn it IN?  No, not the blue form.  The green form.  They gave it to us at freshman orientation.  You lost it?  Sorry.  I mean, that really sucks.  But it was kind of a big deal.  I don't know if t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/765145">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is hilarious and a super quick read, like one day at the beach quick.  It's basically an homage to passive agressiveness and fakeness among women.  I guarantee you will see someone you know in this book.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the perfect book to read while perched on a sand dune, half paying attention to the book and half being mesmerized by the Pacific Ocean.<br/><br/>It's not great literature, but it's pretty funny satire. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the cover of this book quite misleading -- I thought it was one of the business self-help books about misplaced cheese or moving from better to best based on the green green background and the diablito putting his arm around the obvious protagonist (I even began thinking, who in my office wo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20073715">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is hilarious -- many laugh-out-loud lines and a very quick read.  Definitely recommended if you want to relive 1990-2004 with an awful, stunningly successful, incredibly cutting underminer as your companion...]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Successful, gorgeous, and beloved by everyone you know, the Underminer remembers your every foolish ambition and humiliating mistake&#8212;and never fails to remind you. The Underminer makes you feel suicidal. But the Underminer is your friend&#8230;Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan do us all a public service by capturing the elusive evils of an age-old archetype. To understand and resist <em>your </em>toxic friend, you need <em>The Underminer.</em><br/>&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious, hits a little too close to home...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun and interesting, but I think I liked the short film version better.  It was like a distilled version of the book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had two or three laugh-out-loud moments, but overall it was just irritating and depressing. I know that was sort of the point, to portray a character that makes our protagonist feel that way, but I feel like all this book did was annoy and depress me, which I only have time for if it's als...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22497596">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;You can't escape him. He swerves in and out of your life as if effortlessly walking through a crowded restaurant. He's a passive-aggressive master. He's as undetectable as a whisper and as effective as a tiny toxic pill. You probably went to school with him, and he knows everything you've done-every foolish secret ambition you've nurtured, everyone you wish you'd never slept with, every lame, fleeting trend you've embraced. The Underminer throws you into a spiral of self-doubt each time you see him. But...the Underminer is your friend. With this book, Mike Albo and Virginia Heffernan channel this hilarious and mysterious evil that we all have encountered. Through 15 years of booming successes and miserable failures, they pursue this powerful &quot;friend&quot; as he slowly and relentlessly dismantles the life of a nameless victim. Here is the subtle slayer of your hopes, the tactful destroyer of your dreams: the Underminer.<br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Underminers! I've always hated the people who pretend to be your friend and yet subtly jab at you, so you never know where you stand. This entertaining book was reviewed on Diane Ream's show, and so I read it. It is very funny, written in chapters of conversations, only you only hear the underminer ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25745870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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