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  <title><![CDATA[Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume]]></title>
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  <default-description>An American graphic novel first! The complete 1300-page epic adventure from start to finish in one deluxe trade paperback. Three modern cartoon cousins get lost in a pre-technological valley, speanding a year there making new friends and out-running dangerous enemies. Their many adventures include crossing the local people in The Great Cow Race, and meeting a giant mountain lion called RockJaw: Master of the Eastern Border. They learn about sacrifice and hardship in The Ghost Circles and finally discover their own true natures in the climatic journey to The Crown of Horns.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-day type="integer">11</original-publication-day>
  <original-publication-month type="integer">9</original-publication-month>
  <original-publication-year type="integer">2004</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jeff Smith]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Mar 20 09:38:39 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[A friend gave the Bone single volume collection to me a gift one year.  I wasn't familiar with the series prior to that but had just finished a semester of graduate english lit courses that focused on cultural studies and serial fiction.  Bone is Lord of the Rings meets Dickens.  I loved it.  The be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/341258">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Oct 08 16:14:36 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[all graphic novelists will enjoy this fast paced series]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[4 1/2 stars. This is my final review of this fantastic (and meticulously detailed, cartoon-meets-realist) fantasy epic.  Now that I've completed it, I had to dock one-half star for a (to me) incomprehensible ending.  I'll save my discussion of that to the end though, so that I can lead with the rave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34868777">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue May 13 10:22:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to a book group I attend and came with a fairly strong recommendation.  It's also a book that a lot of people recognize.  I was traveling with it and people would see it and say, 'Is that Bone. Cool!' or the like.  I guess I've started to think about it as 'The Hobbit' of g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21384413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19676962">
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I burned through this graphic novel (aka, fancy term for comic book)in 3 days, struggling to resist the urge to stay up until wee hours of the night in order to finish it. It is absolutely delightful! The characters are so memorable—the protagonist loves Moby Dick, the greedy Phoney Bone, a rat cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19676962">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 28 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When the Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, are chased out of Boneville and into the desert, they think they’re done for.  Even worse, a storm of locust separates the cousins, leaving them to wander alone through a strange valley.  When winter falls (quite literally), Fone Bone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17796752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12988558">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Jan 21 11:59:21 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If somebody had come up to me with this brick and said, &quot;Hey, you should read this!  It's like Walt Kelly having a J.R.R. Tolkien-inspired fever dream!  For hundreds and hundreds of pages!&quot;  I probably would have blinked a couple times and changed the subject. <br/><br/>But this adorably...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12988558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49553512">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Mar 17 09:02:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Until reading this book, I couldn't think of the last time I was actually sad to see a story end.  I've read plenty of excellent books in recent years, but none that have left me feeling so sorry to reach the last page!<br/><br/>I'm not sure why I never read this graphic novel earlier -- I think I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49553512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<br/>	Most of the time, when someone drops a brick of a book in your lap, you know right away that you are not going to read it because let’s face it, it’s too big! But every once in a while comes that brick of a book that’s gripping and still awesome, regardless of its size. I have encounter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51437477">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2146366">
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 19 21:11:18 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[1300+ pages of... well, good times. Bone starts out light and happy then moves into a darker tone but never dwelling on it. It was originally published in a monthly book starting in 1991 and eventually ending in 2004. How Jeff Smith could keep a cohesive story going through those thirteen years I do...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2146366">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="389262">
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    <body><![CDATA[From the humble beginings as a sort of silly comic, this series unexpectedly grows into a fantastic fantasy epic.  Smith has some of the best comic timing in the art, as his control over panels and pacing is unparalleled.  That said, the only draw-back is that of any one-volume tome - its unwieldy a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/389262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8992149">
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    <body><![CDATA[Got this as a birthday present after having read the various volumes one by one. You can't help liking the little bubbly-looking Bone or get interested in his adventures. Despite the comic book format this story is both serious, inventive and amusing.]]></body>
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    <review id="46182144">
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    <body><![CDATA[The thickest book on my bookshelf and definitely the most fun. The epic story of Fone Bone, Rose, Phoney Bone, Smiley Bone and Bartleby is to me not only the equal of other fantasy sagas such as Lord Of The Rings and His Dark Materials but superior. And I loved His Dark Materials!<br/><br/>Jeff Sm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46182144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="49424024">
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    <body><![CDATA[Although the graphics were in black &amp; white (versus color of the smaller editions), it was still visually appealing. The contrast between the comic-style Bone characters and realistic scenery and supporting characters made it engaging; I also liked the floppy-eared dragon who appeared every once in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49424024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67305491">
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading about four volumes of this series, I finally just went ahead and picked up the Complete Volume to finish it off.   I have to say, I was very impressed with the series and can see why it was so popular.  The story was funny, and at times, suspenseful and thrilling, and the characters we...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67305491">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, call this one a guilty pleasure: a 1300 page comic book that I didn't want to end. The humor is quirky and entertaining, but the story telling is quite impressive. A lot of things may not seem too original (the overall story feels like Lord of the Rings), but it still manages to feel fresh. Ke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38510074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[First off, this book is massive 1300+ pages. Reading it is like holding two bricks taped together. That, plus the fact that it is a &quot;graphic novel&quot; might scare some readers off.  Too bad for them though, because the story telling here is so good. It starts off cute and funny (like Pogo + D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68274992">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started this on a Monday night, right before bed, and was kicking myself all week.  I should have started Saturday morning and read all weekend, because this book is <em>painful</em> to put down.<br/><br/>At 1300+ pages, it never felt too long.  The story snaps right along, and the art is gorgeous -- eve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49300862">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading Bone knowing absolutely nothing about it. I didn't know Jeff Smith, I knew only that Bone was a giant black and white graphic novel and that a friend of mine loves it. The story starts with three odd characters that through a series of events and coincidences get involved in an epi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49103392">more...</a>]]></body>
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