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  <title><![CDATA[Orca (Vlad Taltos, #7)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels are wildly and deservedly popular.   Here Vlad--wanted all over the Empire, and trying to elude capture--aids a  young boy who saved his life and probes the secrets of the House of the Orca.  </default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">3</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Orca (Vlad Taltos, #7)</original_title>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I had just read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/140151.Athyra_Vlad_Taltos_6_" title="Athyra (Vlad Taltos, #6) by Steven Brust">Athyra</a>, I decided to reread Orca to see if it changed in rating. And it almost did, but the writing just had not improved enough. Brust described very well the kind of Financial melt down we suffered last year, but in such a dull way that the Chandler pastiche just does not work....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65101273">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The worst of the series in my opinion. The book starts well, but never goes anywhere. The plot poofs into nothing by the end. The resolution is flat and unsatisfying, and Vlad is shown to have been a buffoon for most of the book. A subplot about Vlad helping a young man, which had potential to be th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45424276">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Orca are the Empire's mercantile class, so this had a lot to do with banking and trade.  Bits of it seemed almost like a thinly veiled-- It's not an allegory, I guess, if it's a story about banking describing banking, is it --critique of current affairs, but I checked the publication date and it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11701177">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This might not have been the greatest Vlad Taltos book ever written, but with the economic climate being what it is today, it rings amazingly prophetic. While this book doesn't deal with the usual eminent danger to Vlad's life and constant action that so many others seem to focus on, it does play ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52755416">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Orca is the story of Vlad and Kiera's investigation into the death of an Orca who had built a financial empire out of paper.  Part of the story is narrated by Kiera as letters and conversation with Cawti.  The reader learns about Vlad Norathar and hints are dropped that Vlad and Savn travelled with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54975168">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Huh? Where did that bit about Kiera come from? Does it add anything to the story? No. Itâ€™s not enough that this is the most confusing, boring, and pointless of Brustâ€™s novels to date. Heâ€™s not satisfied in alienating the reader with stupefying bank laws. Now he has to pull out the tired old â€...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55265582">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Multiple points of view...yeah! The story told within a story told in a story... And Kiera and Vlad working together! ...And some stunning (for me at least...I might not be too observant, though) revelations at the end.<br/><br/>FUN!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the better Taltos books; unfortunately depends on some of the other books.  Contains a revelation which I shall not spoil.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading from Kiera's perspective. She is definitely one of my favorite Brust characters. Why do like the assassin and thief so much more than anyone with a reasonable job? I think this finally explains why I dislike Sethra - she's like the antithesis of Kiera. I wonder though how sh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38817166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the strongest book in this series, but well written. A change from the usual pacing and plot of the previous books of the series, this is more mystery and caper than action and adventure.<br/><br/>An entertaining note is the description of a credit crisis that closely mirrors the credit crisis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20367277">more...</a>]]></body>
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