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  <default-description>Equipped with love, Mr Pye lands on the island of Sark; his mission is to convert the inhabitants into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. Mr Pye is, however, prone to excess and this is very nearly his downfall.
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;'It is all interwoven', said Mr Pye. 'One cannot segregate things in an arbitrary way - words and illnesses, tadpoles and tears, volcanoes and dominoes, are all interwoven. What affects one thing affects all the rest.'&quot; <br/>p.127]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 05 05:59:32 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A remarkably well constructed parable, which deserves to be better known. The moral is, roughly: don't be ashamed of being a good person, even if it makes you feel ridiculous. Peake finds a clever and original way to say it. <br/><br/><br/>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a strange little book!  Definitely didn't go in the direction I expected.  The chapter illustrations really added something, and I was most amused to learn that not only were they done by the author himself, but that they looked so familiar because he also illustrated Alice in Wonderland, amo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72685882">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I want to write more about this book soon, but suffice it right now to say that it is a true delight.  Peake has a gift for turning caricature into character through how much he really cares about the eccentrics he creates.  It would have been so easy to mock Pye and his desire to evangelize for the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33448695">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 01 12:52:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I'd give any book that happens on Sark a try.  Sounds interesting.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[It makes you think about what is really right and what is really wrong.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow!!! This book is....weird. Well, what can you expect from Mervyn Peake????????? I honestly had no idea of what was going to happen until the last 20 pages. Really Good. A great book for those who are ready for an adventure. Who thought that she was going to be the hero???????(Im not going to say ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24446118">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The literal symptoms of moral dilemmas, Peake carves his way around the island of Sark and jaunts Mr Pye through his maze of brambled descriptive writing. Mervyn at his subtle comic best, a pleasant read and Mr Pye himself could have been a character easily plucked from a Brecht or Dickens novel, so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16158407">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have yet to make it the whole way through this book.  Something creepy is coming and I am not ready to see it through.]]></body>
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