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  <title><![CDATA[The Sun, the Moon, &amp; the Stars]]></title>
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  <default_description>Once upon a time there was a kingdom that lived in darkness, for the sun, the moon and the stars were hidden in a box, and that box was hidden in a sow's belly, and that sow was hidden in a troll's cave, and that cave was hidden at the end of the world. 

Once upon a time there was a studio of artists who feared they were doomed to obscurity, for though they worked and they worked, no one was interested in the paintings that stood in racks along their studio walls.

The Sun, the Moon, &amp; the Stars is a tale of two quests, of two young men who are reaching for the moon. And the sun. And the stars.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1987</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steven Brust]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thought this book would be really interesting. I was wrong.<br/><br/>Alright, well, that doesn’t capture all of it. The story was told in a very unique manner, I liked hearing about the narrator’s artistic creative process, and interspersed in the plot was a Hungarian folk tale. So maybe you...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15669421">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 20 09:36:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[But is is art?<br/><br/>Yes. Categorically, yes. Steven Brust has one great gift and that is his ability to tell a tale in such a way that it almost feels like he is in fact, right there telling it to you. This comes through very well in his Taltos series, but it reaches a pinnacle in The sun, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2163806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51699557">
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Apr 24 10:36:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This books is different from Brust's other novels.  In this book he &quot;retells&quot; a Hungarian folk tale while also exploring the life of a young artist.  Apparently this was part of a series of retold fairy tales.  The s tructure of the book was interesting.  Very regimented, each chapter had ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51699557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="69205156">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 08 10:46:13 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A short &amp; sweet book. Not much of a plot, but a good narrative voice and an interesting format. Largely about artists, which I'm not, which may be why I didn't really get the parallelism between the contemporary part and the Hungarian folk tale part, but each separately is a nice read so it doesn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69205156">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoy Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. Maybe it's the humor that accompanies Vlad that appeals to me so much. So I was excited to read a fairy tale by Brust. Unfortunately, I didn't really like it. The story is about a group of struggling artists in the 1980s and their attempts to make an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21366395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10382547">
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  <date_added>Thu Dec 13 13:13:40 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 13 13:28:40 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book explores an artist's journey in understanding himself, those he cares for, and his own creative process. Intertwined with this is a Hungarian folk tale which also tells of a journey to enlightenment. The book is complex and well written. The somewhat archaic folk tale melds nicely with the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10382547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17343856">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Here the meaning of what it is to be an artist is laid out plainly, and a little not so plainly.  There's also a great deal of introspection involved, which leads to the necessary evalution of aspiration.  It'd difficult to sum up why this book is so good, and exactly how it changed me.]]></body>
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    <review id="28308677">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a while ago, but I remember loving it.  It says some very poignant things about art and artists and weaves the modern story and the Hungarian myth together to a wonderful effect.<br/>Bones?]]></body>
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    <review id="22894752">
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    <body><![CDATA[Based on a Hungarian fairy tale featuring Csucskari, a gypsy who tries to find the sun, moon and stars and restore them to the vacant heavens.]]></body>
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    <review id="5050243">
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1992</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was exciting because how it was written .  It's narration was moving. Super read. Science ficton award winning author Steven Brust.]]></body>
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    <review id="23690075">
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 04 10:38:18 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favoite book for a really, really long time.  I haven't read it again for a while, but I think it might still be.]]></body>
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    <review id="36701698">
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    <body><![CDATA[My feelings about this book can be entirely summed up as huh?]]></body>
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    <review id="33056071">
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting.  Not quite like his other books that I've read.]]></body>
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    <review id="1614750">
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    <body><![CDATA[A fantasy story that also explores the creative process.]]></body>
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