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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111106.The_Unusual_Life_of_Tristan_Smith?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1171648534m/111106.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/111106.The_Unusual_Life_of_Tristan_Smith?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/22595.Peter_Carey">Peter Carey</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19997614?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>It is an odd book. I really like Peter Carey, but I'm not quite sure what he was trying to get at in this story. Still, it is well written, with magical elements and a picture of a weird world, and it is written as a quest which I always like. It somehow seems like it owes something to the Tin Drum by Gunter Grass, but maybe because they both feature deformed midgets. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1077169?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>