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  <title><![CDATA[Puckoon]]></title>
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  <default_description>It's 1924 and the Boundary Commission is deciding on the new line between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. With much pushing and shoving, the border finds it's way down the middle of Puckoon, dividing house from outhouse, man from wife, and pub chairs from bars. Something must be done!</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1963</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Spike Milligan]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 15 08:58:54 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are going to get one Spike Milligan novel, this is it.   For those who don't know (or who are American), Milligan is probably one of the great comic writers in the British language.  Lots of word-playing, and very funny.  He is also part of the Goons along with the always fantastic Peter Sell...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6240675">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Milligan is utterly mad, and I loved every second of this book, even when the plot became so wholly twisted up in itself under the sheer weight of characters. Sure, some of the gags are puerile and obvious, but as anyone who knows me is aware, puerile and obvious are my stock in trade.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 15 18:08:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The funniest book I have ever read. It causes hysterical laughter which no other book has ever done. A bit disjointed, yes, but the comic gems liberally contained totally override this.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[another review reminded me of this one. Completely daft and best read when you're a teenager. That's when I read it. I've categorised it as a novel but it's Milligan arsing about really.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Laugh out loud funny. Classic spike.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are geniuses and there are geniuses. He wrote other novels but none betters this. It took him four years and he swore he'd never write another.<br/><br/>Humour has moved on and it's easy to look back on Milligan and not realise what he did to humour. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1968</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this as a schoolboy in the 1960s, sitting in the school library with a hanky stuffed in my mouth and the tears rolling down my face. Don't bother with the film - it is a very pale and not particularly funny shadow of the book.]]></body>
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    <review id="2379644">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, Spike.  Beckett with a different personality disorder.  Why doesn't our continent acknowledge his comic genius?  We were ready for the Beatles and the Pythons, and he beat them both.  Plus, he euthanized Catchphrase Comedy once and for all.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the funniest books ever. I almost got thrown off a Glasgow city bus once. I was reading this and couldn't stop laughing. Everyone thought I was mad or something!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Such a joyful book, full of the trademark Milligan humour. The energy picks you up towards the end of chapter two, and doesn't let you down until the finale.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hilarious! LOL and be awed at the same time by the talent of this extraordinary author. Can't wait to read the rest of his foolishness.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the funniest book ever written.... its hard to find... but worth the search.. get this now...you wont be dissapointed]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Irish people and Irish problems are funny.]]></body>
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