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    <body><![CDATA[Stewart Dagman (Dag), a mid thirties British bloke, is engaged to be married to his live-in girlfriend of ten years, Andrea Ellis. And guess what? She's pregnant. But Dag also has this fresh young &quot;bit on the side,&quot; Cat Gray, and guess what? She's pregnant too. So what's a guy to do?<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5809937">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[(Spoilers)<br/><br/>Not the worst thing I ever read, but two things bothered me about this book.<br/><br/>1. The author is extremely long-winded in all of his humor. I felt like I had read two paragraphs until he got to the punchline, and by then I had forgotten what in the hell he was talking a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45302626">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled across this while browsing the library stacks and I'm glad I did.  I love this book.  It's a manual of everything that can go wrong in a man's life after between the quarter-life and mid-life crises.  Stewart Dag finds himself having to choose between his pregnant fiancee and his equally ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19608394">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You soon realise why this book is in the bargain bin. The author has clearly read a bit of Tony Parsons and Nick Hornby and said 'I'll have a piece of that, thank you'. If you took out the over-wrought metaphors, you'd have nothing left. Started out with promise, but rapidly headed into territory th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13735431">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was definitely on my list of &quot;embarrassed-to-admit-I-read-it&quot; books.  I was going through a  let's just call it 'thought-provoking' period of my life and was somewhat bitter, you could say.  The title speaks for itself as to the content of the book.  It was mildly entertaining en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1805145">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't even get past the first chapter.  Too much...crap.  Why can't people say something straight forward?  Beating around the bush makes me tired.]]></body>
    
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