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    <body><![CDATA[People kept on asking me why I was laughing.<br/>This book is INSANE. In a really, really good way. You get the awkward pre-pubescent boy vibe and also the completely random, sharp, witty mind of a 12-year old. I think he was twelve. Sometimes the book seems absolutely incredulous, but it's so enter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35070315">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely not South Africa's Catcher in the Rye, despite the many plot parallels and the blurb making big claims.  Still, pretty good.  As a parent, I was kind of creeped out by the author's acceptance of a horrible boarding school. Are beatings, uncontrolled bullying, insanity,rampant drunkenness,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16349274">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a cool book.  It is written in the form of a diary of a 14 year old boy living in South Africa.  The year is 1990 and it is his first year at an elite private boys boarding school.  The hilarity ensues.  All of his experiences and thoughts are  realistic and although the feeling of the book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9292268">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fans of Adrian Mole and Georgia Nicholson will appreciate this latest entry in the adolescent teen diary mode.  With wacky family members, teen romance problems, and faithful friends, Spud doesn't disappoint the reader.  The added benefit is that it takes place in South Africa at the time of Nelson ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14877075">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book has been number one on the bestseller list in South Africa for the last couple of years. Now it is number two, only because the its sequel is number one. With a tag line that touts it as the South African <em>Catcher in the Rye</em> and a rave review from my Penguin rep, I knew I had to read it. To...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5979335">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All the reviews say it's very funny but maybe it's not my type of humor or something because I didn't tjhink it was hilarious.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you like Georgia Nicholson but you're ready for something deeper, more 'guy,' and better-fleshed, read Spud. Though it's set in the 1990's, the references to historical events are few and far between and vague enough that the story will feel fresh for a long time. <br/>The main character, Spud (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76586567">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spud is about a boy named John Milton, who just joined a boarding school. He has a hard time adapting to his friends and he is being made fun of and being called Spud. The main character is John, and he narrates the story. The setting is in Durban, South Africa. John's main internal conflict, is him...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76479860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[	I stumbled upon this novel in advisory and was slightly discouraged when I saw how long it was. But after reading the blurb and a look at the cover, I thought it would be an easy read. As I flipped through the novel, I saw that it was written in journal entries which I thought was very interesting....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51745801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The adventures of John Milton “Spud” despite its oddness and quirkiness is able to connect with anyone. Refreshingly original and funny the book has a very South African feel but written in such a way as to delight anyone. With astonishing wit and cleverness, as only a 14-year-old spud can provi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7337711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I really put off reading this wacky boarding school tale of the early 90's in South Africa until I didn't have any choice.  It was assigned to me as one of the four of the Peach Nominees for which I had to make Readers Rally questions.  It did really grow on me more than I expected, and while ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63188804">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mom read the book to my sister, and recommended it to me (with the disclaimer that it was pretty inappropriate and that she had edited a lot of it). I immediately picked it up - I love South African lit. The book was really fun and silly - Spud is an entertaining narrator, and his adventures with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63333441">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good but not great. I found the plot to be kind of ridiculous. The book tells a story about a white man who moved from the sunny side in California to the desert in Africa. He moves there because his father gets a job but the truth is he is very unhappy there, His girlfriend comes to v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51750734">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one! Just like King Dork and Little Brother! Another absolutely wild male fantasy. Shrimpy boy Spud manages to get the attention of THREE DIFFERENT GIRLS! GOOD LORD! I think this must be some kind of crazy wish fulfillment on the author's part.<br/>Also, there's the thing that's starting to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57294412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious!  A 13 year-old leaves his wacked out family for boarding school and just when you hope that he will learn about normal behaviour - here comes the Crazy Eight and more sadistic prefects than you can count - and the teachers??  A drunken literature-loving professor with a trouble marriage, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40641472">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful book about children being children, the resilience of children in general, children coming of age, falling in love, having to deal with adults. Funny to boot. I often laughed out loud.<br/><br/>Synopsis (there is no spoiler, unless if you want to know if Spud gets his girl). Spud goes to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80193419">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Our tour leader in Africa lent me this coming-of-age book after I'd heard her laughing constantly while reading it.  It's written as the diary of a prepubescent boy in a South African boarding school just before the end of apartheid.  The descriptions of the students' antics are hysterical, as are t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64640458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Sally Kruger, aka &quot;Readingjunky&quot; for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>SPUD has been compared to THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, but I see it more as a twisted Harry Potter minus the magic and the nasty, evil villain. It is boarding school at its craziest and best. <br/><br/>Even though it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22059971">more...</a>]]></body>
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