# Book reviews from the edge of reality

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-from-the-edge-of-reality/122967>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 8, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-from-the-edge-of-reality/122967 "2002-08-08T15:19:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-from-the-edge-of-reality/122967/1 "2002-08-08T15:19:36Z")

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This isn’t _really_ related to a literary critique, I’m guessing it belongs here, but mods may feel free to move it.

[Read the reviews](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0449148149/qid%3D1028762077/sr%3D8-5/ref%3Dsr%5F8%5F5/104-6957724-0603902) (near the bottom) of the Family Circus hoeuvre.

Make me want to write my own review of some of my favourite comic strips “Your a Good Man Charlie Brown.”

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**Author:** ![lauramarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@lauramarlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lauramarlane)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/book-reviews-from-the-edge-of-reality/122967/2 "2002-08-08T15:51:55Z")

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I’ve always felt that Cathy was a metaphor for the human condition…the age old struggles with family, relationships, and bathing suit season. And now, of course, I don’t think I’ll be able to read Family Circus in the same way again.