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  <title><![CDATA[Someone Like You]]></title>
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  <default-description>There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers...there's the lady who murders her husband with a frozen leg of lamb...not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass scream...Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has already attracted a huge following which can only be more disturbed, alarmed and - thankfully - amused by 'Someone Like You'.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't even know Roald Dahl wrote children books until I was in my twenties. My first introduction to this author was the TV scripts from the Alfred Hitchcock Show of the 50s and 60s, noticeably &quot;Lamb to The Slaughter&quot; in which a betrayed housewife kills her husband with a frozen leg of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57479658">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For anyone who thinks of Roald Dahl purely as a children's book author, this is the book to change your mind and make you think admiringly about Dahl's considerable powers as an adult writer.<br/><br/><strong> Taste </strong> &gt;&gt; A bet goes too far between a man desperate to acquire a reputation of one who ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52453067">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nach Küsschen, Küsschen das mich wirklich begeistern konnte, wendete ich mich gleich diesem Buch von Roald Dahl (1916-1990) zu. Man darf ihn getrost als den Meister der makaberen Kurzgeschichten bezeichnen. Und so ist auch dieses Buch mit wunderbaren Erzählungen deren Schwarzer Humor seinesgleich...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39496300">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roald Dahl has a style all his own. This collection of short stories was entertaining, and each story had a twisted twist... some made you think, some left you somewhat-hanging, but it was a good read, and fun to read with someone else. My mother-in-law and I both read the stories and then talked ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65635855">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of those books that I couldn't really get into until about half way through. It seems like he puts all the good stories at the end. Like everyone else has written, this isn't the Roald Dahl of children's books. Lots of revenge stories, lots of built up resentment, meek men, overpowering ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21776809">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, ingenious like always, Dahl. Short stories all filled with his characteristic suspense and horror. Definitely recommended, this is a book I will read again.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was surprised to find Roald Dahl in the adult section, so I tried it.  They are funny stories, some with a really good twist at the end.  A bit dated, but worth a read if you like his children's stories.]]></body>
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    <review id="38629583">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A dark and strange collection, the stories in <u>Someone Like You</u> are better than those in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44516.Switch_Bitch"><u>Switch Bitch</u></a>, mostly because the misogyny is turned down to a more comfortable level.  That said, they still feel rather dated, with Dahl's stiff portrayals of men and women and society in general, and most of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38629583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An awesome and very creepy collection of short stories. Hands down, the best is &quot;Skin&quot;, about a man with a very unfortunate tattoo. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More suspense short-stories. Yay!]]></body>
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    <review id="25447593">
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a refreshing book of short stories. There is nothing fancy to these stories--the author sets up a premise, gives some spare yet telling detail, and usually adds some sort of plot twist that surprises and pleases. Some of these I had read before, in high school or college, where they were rightl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25447593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6689792">
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    <body><![CDATA[buku ini nyeritain persahabatan cewe2 yang sifatnya berbeda satu sama lain...yah,emang standar cewe bgt siy..gitu2 aja...<br/>dari kepribadian mereka yang berbeda, masalah2 mereka yang berbeda satu sama lain..sampe menyatukan mereka dalam persahabatan dan ikatan kasih sayang satu sama lainnya..(aaa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6689792">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15641382">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a great taste of the darker side of Roald Dahl.  You can actually sense his darker side in most of his children's books he's written, but here it is undiluted.  Some of the stories are more whimsical, some have nasty twists, some are just quirky and fun.  It makes me want to read more of hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15641382">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Terribly disturbing... especially when you read it at the age of 9 (My question is, what was this book doing in the library of an elementary school??). <br/><br/>But the stories are oh so deliciously twisted. You think Roald Dahl only wrote cutesy children's books? No, my friend. This is Roald Dah...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4838447">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Roald Dahl stories are such an institution people that have never read him even know his stories. You know the one about the wife who beats her husband to death with the leg of lamb and then destroys the evidence by ____. Yeah, you can probably finish that one, I know you can. Roald Dahl rules!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very CREEPY!  One thing learned very well from this book:<br/><br/>You NEVER hide an evidence.  You COOK it and let the police eat it.  <br/><br/>Mr. Dahl never failed to amaze me.  An amazing adult Roald Dahl's book.  Well, to me, his works are always amazing anyway! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dahl has a really macabre sense that reminds me of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2014794.The_Thirty_nine_Steps_" title="The Thirty-nine Steps. by John Buchan">Alfred Hitchcock</a> stories of my younger days!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[very twisted, very surprising, and very adult- dahl's adult short stories have always been a guilty pleasure for me. i read most of them about 14 years ago and i still remember some of the stories with a shudder.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A treat to go back in time and read these stories again. I went looking for the 'Ratcatcher' trilogy at the end and couldn't resist revisiting the others.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made me appreciate reading short stories again. Roald Dahl's dark, bizarre and sometimes grotesque stories are brilliantly written.]]></body>
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