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  <title><![CDATA[Death's Jest-book]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Reginald Hill]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Death's Jest-Book finishes off the story started in Dialogues of the Dead. A surprise ending. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Death's Jest-book was very long in the tooth, and a little difficult to read because of all of the Brit slang, some of which made no sense to me.  I did wade through it, and found sections that were very engrossing.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far so good - my first Reginald Hill]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 08 16:09:34 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent.. weird but excellent ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reginald Hill and his excellent creations Peter Pascoe, a literate Yorkshire police detective, and his boss &quot;The Fat Man&quot; Detective Superintendent Andy Dalziel, are two of the most engaging and entertaining policemen working these days.  Throw in an ambience of non-London England in curren...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6224662">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good riddance, Franny Roote!  I was entirely sick of him by the end of this.  Diappointed more wasn't made out of the Rye/Hat situation, that could have been really good.  Liked the last one so much better!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A kind of sequel to Dialogues of the Dead, which it would be useful to have read before this. It works well as a stand alone in the series, but works better as a complement to the earlier novel referred.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the second time I have read this.  Whilst it was a compulsive page turner the ending is not satisfying.  It is very much a sequel to the equally unsatisfying &quot;Dialogues of the dead&quot;.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[558 pages of English detection - good plot, way too long for solution to mystery]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three is the top mark I give to mysteries. Love the Pascoe and Dalziel series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hated the way Peter acted in this one and the way it ended.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[cheeky british crime noir... a fun read...]]></body>
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