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    <body><![CDATA[Reprinted from my website <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://secureimmaturity.com/?p=2673">Secure Immaturity</a>:<br/><br/>I’m trying to love Craig Ferguson while I can because let’s face it world. . .Craig Ferguson is coming! I’m not one of those intellectual yuppies who hates anything mainstream but there is, admittedly, something really fun about liking so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73892795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[You wouldn't necessarily realize it when watching him on television, but Craig Ferguson is quite a writer.  His novel, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/134203.Between_the_Bridge_and_the_River" title="Between the Bridge and the River by Craig Ferguson">Between the Bridge and the River</a>, is one of my favorite books, and <em>American on Purpose</em> is just as funny, well-written, and surprisingly poignant as the former.<br/><br/>Like Russe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81480740">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lively, funny, informative, and sometimes very moving autobiography by the Scottish late-night talk-show host. Not as good as his novel (on which he says he worked <em>very</em> hard) I suppose because his life isn't really as interesting as what his imagination can concoct. Some wonderful anecdotes--as wh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80327321">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how I came to start watching The Late Late Show; I'd never seen him on the Drew Carey show; heck, I didn't even know he existed. But for some reason I picked up a Late Late show or two on the TiVo, and became a fan, and when the book came out resisted for a while but finally gave in and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78375275">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really not much of a late night person, I'm lucky to stay up past 10:30 most nights. But once in awhile, I find myself awake AFTER I have fallen asleep...HATE that. Except that is how I *met* Craig Ferguson, host of the Late, Late show, on CBS, following the tired, ordinary Late Show with Dave L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77601291">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I just love biographies. Everybody has a story to tell and I always find them fascinating. Craig Ferguson does not disappoint with his life's story. He speaks VERY candidly about his alcoholism, making no excuses for his behavior. I really like that personal responsibility. I found equally fascinati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75886223">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[“It’s a great day for America everybody!” in a thick Scottish borough is how TV’s Craig Ferguson begins his monologue each weeknight. As host of The Late Late Show, Craig follows David Letterman, spinning his unique and very different style of late night comedy. Fans of the show are well awa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74937294">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve loved Craig for years.  His Late Late Show is the only late night talk show that I watch on a regular basis.  What I love about his talk show is that he doesn’t do a standard monologue of lame jokes.  He just stands in front of the camera and talks with honesty and warmth about anything and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73046369">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was made all the better because I listened to it rather than reading it - and it was read by the author.  Yay!  Six CDs of Scottish accent!  I have only seen tiny snippets of the Late late show with Craig Ferguson as I usually nod off somewhere between 9 and 10 p.m. (it's just my way), but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80322667">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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