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    <body><![CDATA[Remember Will Smith's Wild Wild West movie.  It's about as tantalizing as that.  The drawings are good cartoons and i was turned on to this book because Niko Henrichon (who illustrated <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/105703.Pride_of_Baghdad" title="Pride of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan">Pride of Baghdad</a>) is a terrific artist.  Inevitably though, the story was dry (albeit creative in its attempt to hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54808762">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book before I was on Goodreads, and I had forgotten about it until just now when I saw it on the shelf as I was pulling books.<br/><br/>I remember that I liked this book, but I don't remember too much about it. If memory serves, the circus was kind of a front. Some (but maybe not all) ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40942946">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just yesterday, I finished reading The Five Fists of Science, in which Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla saves the world (or at least New York) from the evils of Thomas Edison and J.P. Morgan. Today, I plowed through Barnum!, which has the titular circus barker teaming up with a secret service agent to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3775269">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd never read anything by Howard Chaykin, but this was a pretty fun introduction (and it so happens he did all of the illustrations in the McSweeney's &quot;Thrilling Tales&quot; short story book I'm reading).  It reminded me a lot of <em>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen</em> (historical figures in wild ac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49009834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[What if the Greatest Show on Earth was mixed with Wild, Wild, West?  Well, if you've ever been dying to have that answer, Chaykin and his collaborators have it here for you.  <br/><br/>Nikola Tesla wants to split the United States with his wealthy conspirators and only P.T. Barnum and his motley cre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15070106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun historical fiction graphic novel. Espionage, Pt. Barnum, using circus freaks to save the country--what more could you ask for?]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If this was an ongoing series, it could have been the Jack of All Trades of comics, which might be good or bad, but it's a little underwhelming as is.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thinking of P.T. Barnum and his crew of oddities as Americas first secret agents was a bit silly at first, but aftyer reading for a while it begin to drawn me in. Its a fun read, but I'll tell you it reads like any silly cool hero agains the evil mastermind bad guy plot. It was fun and that is all I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24818788">more...</a>]]></body>
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