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  <title><![CDATA[Black]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;Enter an adrenaline-laced epic where dreams and reality collide.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head...and his world goes black.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world-a world where evil is contained. A world where Thomas Hunter is in love with a beautiful woman. Then he remembers the dream of the chase as he reaches to touch the blood on his head.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Where does the dream end and reality begin? Every time he falls asleep in one world, he awakes in the other-both facing catastrophic disaster. Thomas is being pushed beyond his limits...even beyond the limits of space and time.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Black&lt;/em&gt; is an incredible story of evil and rescue, betrayal and love, pursuit and death, and a terrorist's threat unlike anything the human race has ever known.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Some say the world hangs in the balance of every choice we make. Now the fate of two worlds hangs in the balance of one man's choice.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Ted Dekker]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Someone is shooting at Thomas Hunter. He runs for his life—zig-zagging, hiding, and executing some awesome martial arts—as men chase him through the streets of Denver. But when a silent bullet grazes his head, his world goes black and he wakes up somewhere else.  <br/><br/>In darkness. He does...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38638561">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few books have such an immersive world that you actually feel like you're living in it when you read it. Although this is true about the first book in the ring trilogy (being Black) by Ted Dekker, the book has some major flaws.<br/><br/>Characters sometimes seem unrealistic and do absurd things fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20146710">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I would highly recommend this book to anyone I know.  This was written about the Chronicles of Narnia on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://wikipedia.org">wikipedia.org</a> but applies to the Color Trilogy as well: &quot;The series contains many allusions to traditional Christian ideas,... however, the books can also be read purely for their adventure,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13672367">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Black by Ted Dekker. My personal opinions.<br/><br/>Black by Ted Dekker is a hard book to describe in a sentence. It has a strange feel that tells  you something like &quot;Never put me down!&quot; or &quot;Just read one more chapter.&quot; And it surely did to me. Black is about Thomas Hunter, a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73561040">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="60244984">
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 18 19:22:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book started slowly, and I read through many other books between starting this one and finishing it. But right about page 300, things started to pick up, and my attention was piqued. It also helped that I only had about 100 pages to go and needed one more book to get the book count to an even 80...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60244984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54320731">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[“Black&quot; written by Ted Dekker is the first book of a mind twisting thriller trilogy. As Thomas Hunter, the main character is fleeing from his pursuers, he is shot in the head then finds himself awake in another world where good and evil are separated by a designated river. He soon discovers t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54320731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just read the book, Black, by Ted Dekker. This book is a mystery/suspense fiction novel. Tom Hunter is a guy in his twenties who lives in Denver, in an apartment with his sister. He works at a coffeeshop, and has several manuscripts of books he'd like published at home. He also was raised in the P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52513250">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Thomas Hunter is caught between two different worlds and he must try to stop evil in both.  When Thomas Hunter falls asleep he crosses over to the other world.  The things that happen in our world coincide with the things that are happening in the other world. In our world a terrible mad man is abou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60256039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51039481">
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    <body><![CDATA[Black by Ted Dekker starts off with Tom Hunter getting shot at from people that have been looking for him from New York and his sister Kara now live in denver. He and his sister were raised in the Philipines until father left his mother. Tom spent some time with her in New York after they spilt up. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51039481">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Mar 26 21:37:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wanted to like this, I really did.  But at about 35%, I just had to stop, it was making me crazy.<br/><br/>I have no problem with time travel or alternate realities.  I have no problem with fluffy white flying and talking bird-ish creatures or wood that molds itself and glows from within or wate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49841350">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43606481">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is in a trilogy that I absolutely loved!  The books contained in the set are Black, Red, and White.  I had purchased the book because I had enjoyed the edgy writing of Ted Dekker in another book and wanted to read more of his work.<br/><br/>This book starts out as strangely as any I have ever...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43606481">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[        Have you ever had a totally vivid dream that you could have sworn was real? That’s what happens to Thomas Hunter in the book Black, by Ted Dekker. He will have lots of obstacles to overcome in both realities. <br/>	Thomas is in two completely different worlds, but both of them are real. E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73209676">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I just finished it this afternoon.  I thought it was going to be predictable when I first started but Dekker took the story in a totally different direction than I anticipated.  His symbolism and metaphorical references were wonderful without be overtly so.  They delicately appeared causing me to po...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66625502">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fleeing his assailants through deserted alleyways, Thomas Hunter narrowly escapes to the roof of a building. Then a silent bullet from the night clips his head . . . and his world goes black.<br/><br/>From the blackness comes an amazing reality of another world--a world where evil is contained. A ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57956234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71330207">
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    <body><![CDATA[A little bit shaky from the start, this book really comes into its own by the end. I'm not a huge fan of Christian fiction, simply because often the term is used like with so many other avenues to make excuses for sub-par art and watered down stories that are &quot;safe for the whole family.&quot; B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71330207">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71267249">
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    <name><![CDATA[Joanna]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished Black two weeks ago and passed it to Roger.  Black has quite a bit of Christian allegory, so I wanted to know what he thought and how he interpreted it.  Roger is now hooked on the series, already making his way through the third book in the Trilogy. (BTW, a prequel - the 4th book in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71267249">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first experience reading a book by Ted Dekker and let me say that it is a different kind of read.  I was put off at first by the way the chapters flowed from one to the next but as I continued to read this became a non-issue.  Ted Dekker really creates a main character that you connect w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64158769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To say Ted Dekker pushes the limits on traditional fiction is an understatement.  He's constantly testing the outer reaches of imagination, probing for places untouched.  Sometimes you're not sure you want to go there, but in the end you're left with a profound understanding of something deep and of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55754807">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book for the first few chapters. Fantasy/Thriller with Christian symbolism. However, the more I read, the more I disliked it. The romantic scenes were so cheesy they were down-right laughable, and so was the idea that in this &quot;peaceful, angelic world&quot; you could be paire...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65514669">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed this series as first a story, then as an allegorical style, and lastly because the romantic in me longs for that kind of love and acceptance that can only come through an acceptance of Christ as your Lord and Savior. Only Someone so much greater that ourselves, like a Father/ Cr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51100427">more...</a>]]></body>
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