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Title: Their problems are our problems, reading about theirs helps us deal with ours
Review: Part of the appeal of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts comic strip is that nearly everyone has a better life than he does. Everything he does fails in one form or another, from trying to kick the football to flying a kite to being a friend. This book concentrates more on the other characters in the strip; a large number of the captions are about Snoopy, Woodstock and Spike. They too have their foibles and desires that remain unsatisfied.Yet through it all, we are amused, for while their problems are similar to ours, we can laugh at that the Peanuts characters because fundamentally they only exist in our minds. As we translate the marks on the paper into events we interpret in our own way, our similar problems become tempered and easier to deal with.
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