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  <title><![CDATA[The White House Mess]]></title>
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  <default_description>An uproarious comedy about a presidential administration totally off the rails. This fictional political memoir by the Personal Assistant to President Tucker, Herbert Wadlough, offers a unique, utterly self-serving inside view of the ill-fated Tucker administration, 1989-1993. &quot;A brilliant satire . . . A witty, very funny, intricate spoof.&quot;--Bob Woodward.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1986</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The White House Mess</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Christopher Buckley]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Mar 12 04:54:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Mar 13 04:21:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars. Fictitious &quot;memoir&quot; written by the personal assistant to the new president during the 1989-1993 administration, detailing the crazy happenings in the White House. You wonder what kind of stuff really happens at the White House that we never hear about. On a personal note, part o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49013243">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Elizabeth]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 11:17:47 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jan 15 12:39:12 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 17 11:17:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley (pp. 224)<br/>One of Buckley’s earliest novels is a clear miss.  While microscopic bits of the satirical style that makes his later novels such fun are evidenced in this work, they are few and far between.  This may be because the material is just too c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43151927">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30499397">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 18 18:16:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Sep 12 16:00:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After completion of this novel, I look forward to reading &quot;Thank you for Smoking,&quot; finally.  I have had so many terrible experiences with the book to movie, movie to book disparity, that I had been loath to put myself into such a potentially painful situation again.  I had never read any o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30499397">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20445148">
    <user id="1094831">
    <name><![CDATA[Scott]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Birmingham, AL]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[West Wing fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Apr 18 06:12:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 24 07:33:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA['The Washington Mess' by Christopher Buckley is hilarious.  I found myself giggling, chuckling, and several times outright laughing as I read it. If you liked West Wing, I can't recommend this book highly enough. The only way I can describe it is as a hybrid mating of West Wing and well, pick any of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20445148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37184094">
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  <date_added>Sat Nov 08 09:48:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 08 10:47:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just plain awesome. Loaded to the brim with snappy dialogue that translates what press releases might actually be about. Some slow parts, but more than enough to keep you locked in until you reach the end. A hilarious non-partisan send-up of political memoirs, turf battles and government.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37184094">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75092082">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 19 21:23:29 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 19 21:30:27 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of Buckley's novels are smart and very funny (and occasionally crude and profane) and really do skewer anyone and everyone who lives 'inside the Beltway&quot;they are even funnier if you ever did live in DC or just follow it closely.  I think my favorites are &quot;Thank you for Smoking&quot;,&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75092082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9933141">
    <user id="659188">
    <name><![CDATA[ryan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Dallas, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[All]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 04 10:54:04 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Feb 10 12:59:21 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The brilliant Christopher Buckley, who served as the chief speechwriter for Vice President George H. W. Bush, lampoons the self-serving banalities of political memoirs in an outlandish political satire that is buoyed by unflagging zest. From the inauguration crisis, when President Reagan refused to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9933141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71932422">
    <user id="1710557">
    <name><![CDATA[Bookczuk]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Charleston, SC]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 20 18:21:17 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 20 18:21:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wasn't quite as enamored of this as I'd hoped to be, but then again, it just could be my state of mind. Or it could be the difference between the world in 1986 (when the book was written), an alternate 1989 (when the book took place) and 2009.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71932422]]></url>
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    <review id="17517442">
    <user id="954862">
    <name><![CDATA[Jim]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 11 10:50:50 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 11 10:55:47 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[ The man never misses.  This one is told as a memoir by the kind of old-friend White House regular who is usually scorned as a freeloader, but has personal value to the president anyway.  It’s bright and witty and insightful with a feeling of parody written by one who was an insider. (Buckley was ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17517442">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17517442]]></url>
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    <review id="75301683">
    <user id="1278382">
    <name><![CDATA[Crbianfool]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 21 16:41:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Oct 21 16:42:30 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good but not great.  Political pseudo-memoir satirizing Clinton WH.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75301683]]></url>
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    <review id="72401007">
    <user id="2316753">
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  <date_added>Thu Sep 24 18:41:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 24 18:42:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this guy.  ]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72401007]]></url>
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    <review id="42019423">
    <user id="1853347">
    <name><![CDATA[Matthew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[More lesser Christopher Buckley.  Stick with Thank you for Smoking.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42019423]]></url>
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    <review id="33002216">
    <user id="1475258">
    <name><![CDATA[Lisa]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Paul, MN]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[anyone who needs a good laugh, especially in this political year.]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Found on a &quot;bargain book&quot; table]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1988</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 16 08:52:02 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 16 09:04:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count>3</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I laughed so hard I cried at several points.  I highly recommend this book, especially if you think that many aspects of politics are ridiculous.<br/><br/>My favorite parts include the Inaugural debacle when President Reagan doesn't &quot;feel like&quot; leaving the White House, The planning of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33002216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="34313390">
    <user id="327391">
    <name><![CDATA[Mason]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Winston Salem, NC]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[mweatherly1@triad.rr.com]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Oct 01 15:16:28 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 04 18:48:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a departure from the usual books that I read.  I had seen the author on CBS Sunday Morning and thought I would try one of his books.  I enjoyed the book.  Buckley has an easy writing style and the book is full of humor.  I will definitely read more if his satirical fiction.]]></body>
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    <review id="4974229">
    <user id="266107">
    <name><![CDATA[Rhea]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 23 08:51:27 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 22 20:33:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is by the same dude who wrote Thank You for Smoking. This was probably very popular when it came out in '86 and I find it quite funny and engaging in a smart way. Cool concept, too -- writing about a president elected a few years in the future.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4974229]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="40149422">
    <user id="1571110">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 05:29:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Christopher Buckley -- too, too funny. Totally unbelievable DC stories, but totally hilarious. Didn't love this as much as some of his others; I think it was the journal style in which it was written. But, great laugh out loud momnets. ]]></body>
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    <review id="1076109">
    <user id="78615">
    <name><![CDATA[denise]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Mon May 07 05:33:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 07 05:33:00 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Christopher Buckley!  This was the first book of his that I ever had the pleasure to read.  Thank you to my friend Trevor for recommending it to me.  If you love political satire, this book is for you.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1076109]]></url>
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    <review id="33006710">
    <user id="1378745">
    <name><![CDATA[Mary]]></name>
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 16 09:57:55 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 31 16:11:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I normally love any book written by Christopher Buckley, but this one just didn't do it for me.  This one fell flat for some reason.  There are sparks of satire, but I think this one was too time-specific.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought the satire here was really good and enjoyable, but the book is mainly a series of very funny vignettes, not really a cohesive novel the way Thank You For Smoking was.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny look at the bs that goes on in Washington.]]></body>
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