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    <body><![CDATA[Davie is a perfectly ordinary boy growing up in England in the 1960's.  He and his best mate Geordie are altar boys at their Catholic church, have a standing feud with the Protestant boys from the next neighborhood over and spend their free time exploring the secrets of the overrun Braddock garden. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68076955">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think that when I read this book again, I will likely give it four stars - maybe five. For now, I'm going to have to stick with three because when I got to the end of this book, I felt almost like I was someone's gollum: bland, dry, and flat. SPOILER ALERT (kind of): I think it had a lot to do wit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44641140">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've often what kind of mind a person has to write a book like this.  I was uncomfortable as chapter after chapter twisted creation as we might believe the world, animal, plant, and human creation to be.  The thought of cloning always drew from my inner most being uncomfortable feelings of morality....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47816855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reviewed by Holly for TeensReadToo.com<br/><br/>&quot;I am here master, command me.&quot; <br/><br/>Thirteen-year-old Davie and his best friend, Geordie, have a wild time when Stephen Rose moves into Crazy Mary's house; she's the craziest woman they know. When the church paster informs Davie tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21555185">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Use a piece of clay as a prop for the booktalk.<br/><br/>Here’s a simple piece of clay.  You can use it to shape things, make a bowl, an ashtray, or a sculpture.  But what if you can breathe life into your creation and make it come alive?<br/><br/>That’s what Stephen Rose tells Davie they ca...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9317024">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[WARNING: This book is highly disturbing and uses the word nowt a lot (heheheh it rhymes!) which, BTW, means &quot;nothing&quot; (literally- his overuse was driving me MAD)<br/><br/>OK-<br/><br/>I think that David Alomnd may possess a mental illness. No really. You'd have to be insane to write a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74223703">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good golem story set in Ireland. A lonely boy meets a new boy in town and the two of them fashion a golemn and imbue it with magic. The other boy wants to golem to do evil things while the main character struggles with the morality of what he's done. A good novel that doesn't get much attention fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51709905">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading <em>Catching Fire</em> and <em>Hunger Games</em>, I was at a loss for reading material.  So, Jeffrey brought me the newest David Almond since he knew I loved his first three.  BLECH!  I don't love this one.  It's basically just the Golem story retold.  But not well.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book was the most creepiest and craziest book i have ever read. the more i read the creepier it got. i guess you could say i liked it but some of the character were seriously, mentaly damaged and the story was so out there. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not usually one for horror movies, but I love horror novels.  This story was no exception.  I thought it was wonderful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Clay deals with themes that I find deeply intriguing: real evil, for example, and how seductive the dark can be to people who are basically good.  The book's main character, Davie, is a young adolescent in England -- a good Catholic boy who tries to do the right thing.  He falls under the influence ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2626573">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dark and disturbing and really a wonderful book.  I finished it full of uncertainties - not a bad thing on the whole.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was not all it could have been.  Or mabye I should just say that I like a happy ending, some sort of resolution and at least a laugh or two along the way.  I did not get any of these things from reading this book.  The writing was definitely good, you can't really argue with that, after al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1830361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far, even though i just read a chapter this book is really boring<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="67146221">
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    <body><![CDATA[magic realist, adult-like book with thought provoking issues ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i have this book but i cant get into it. is it good????]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished &quot;Clay&quot; and I'm still not sure.  Almond's writing is always a pleasure.  He has a real flare and a sense of beauty when it comes to lyrical prose.  So how come only three stars?  Despite the writing, I don't know, it just didn't have that &quot;thing,&quot; whatever that's s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9475564">more...</a>]]></body>
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