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    <body><![CDATA[High Society is a look at the UK through the shadowy tinted glasses of the drug fuelled underworld, and an proposition to turn the legislation on drug crime on its head. The reader soars through a number of different narrative strands that meet and depart throughout the plot, the characters ranging ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62257905">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book as a couple of protagonists, and each of them is telling their story either by themselves or it is narrated by the 3rd-person-narrator. As a result, the settings, perpectives and storylines are changing all the time. This did not necessarily help at the beginning to get into the story. Als...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18689429">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book. It explores drugs and celebrity in English society but the real genius is the way Elton links that to the issue of honesty and hypocrisy - not just on the obvious levels but on a deeper, more general one. What he ends up with is a searing indictment of dishonesty on any level. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64177595">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this story. The idea of legalizing recreational drugs is indeed intriguing, and quite sane when proposed in this book. Makes perfect sense. Except nothing is perfect and perfect sense is the most imperfect perfect there can be. Still, it does give one cause to wonder.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite Elton work. I read it on my honeymoon in Thailand and it was a topic of conversation for about 6 months following. Everyone loves a good &quot;leagalise everything?&quot; debate]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another one of my favorites of all time... I read it in London, makes a great case for legalizing all drugs.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Again Ben Elton has to be one of my favoured authors there's always something to like in his novels.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The war on drugs has been lost, but afraid to face that fact, the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime, and this story takes us through the landscape it has created. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Legalise it! When Parliament, the head of police and a wide range of experts are telling us that the UK would be much better off if drugs were legal, it is surely time to reexamine our prejudices. To help us through the quagmire of personal and ethical issues Ben Elton offers a novel with a wide ran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19354725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Will this really happen if all drugs are made legal? If only marijuana was made legal? Who knows?<br/>This book, at first glance, seems preachy but if you think of it through Elton's somewhat misanthropic eyes you realize he's just trying to tell us we're already scum enough without drugs to add a s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11383957">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know, I mean it was ok as a story. A little far-fetched in places, it seemed like he was trying too hard to sound qualified to write a story about hard drugs. He attempts using street phrases and he just didn't come across as authentic. An interesting theory, but an utterly implausible one, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16469578">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting reading this and then seeing Season 3 of The Wire, in which the police kind of &quot;legalize&quot; drugs. I don't know, this book didn't really make me think drugs ought to be legalized, but Elton always does a good job of weaving a lot of characters' stories together, like a gro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34083282">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The war on drugs has been lost, but afraid to face that fact, the whole world is rapidly becoming one vast criminal network. From the Groucho Club toilets to the poppy fields of Afghanistan, we are all partners in crime, and this story takes us through the landscape it has created. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow it has been so long since I have read a Ben Elton book, I forgot how absolutely captivating they are.  This story is told through the eyes of several people who have a connection to drug abuse in their lives.  Not much can be said without ruining the story but many twists and turns were taken an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32585388">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ben Elton is certainly one of the sharpest social commentators writing novels these days; <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198463.Cerebus_Book_2_High_Society" title="Cerebus Book 2  High Society by Dave Sim">High Society</a> is no exception. At times excruciating to read, it is nevertheless very hard to put down. I was up until the wee hours finishing this.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34711942">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Mouth motor on drugs in the UK!<br/>A very tenuous ‘plot’ but great narration using all the different voices and the characters tied in together very well. Some of it is appalling, some of it is funny but all is well written. <br/>With the amount sex and swearing it’s definitely not a book t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7188241">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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