false <![CDATA[1632 (Assiti Shards, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166765511m/16967.jpg 16967 5 When part of West Virginia is transported to 1632 East Germany during the Thirty Year's War, the new citizens repel marauding mercenaries, house German refugees, determine citizenship, and establish relationships and identities. 1172297 1997 1632 (Assiti Shards, #1) total:642|5:236|4:251|3:118|2:27|1:10| 642 2602 836 105 3 4 false false Thu Jan 17 14:31:33 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 17 14:31:43 -0800 2008
The Good: It's established in the introduction to the book that when the town ...more...]]> 2 1 true true Thu Oct 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 07:40:24 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 09:42:25 -0700 2008 once
I realize that disbelief needs to be suspended when you're dealing with this kind of fiction, but I need something to suspend it from. If you're going to have access to live grenades and Claymore mines, yo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Sep 28 19:25:11 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 19:34:43 -0700 2009
The premise of the book is that about a 6 mile radius sphere of a modern day ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Sep 30 00:00:00 -0700 2001 Tue Aug 25 09:41:05 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 09:42:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 13:44:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 20:43:54 -0700 2009 1 I'd like to give this one a 3.5. It's a good read, no doub...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Nov 18 09:28:44 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 09:34:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 10:44:26 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 10:51:28 -0800 2009
The idea behind the book immediately intrigued me when I read the back cover. Through some unknown phenomena, the town of Grantville, West Virginia and it's surroundings are transported back in time to 1632 in Germany.

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Essentially, what happens is that, via a more-than-improbable cosmic event, a ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jun 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 17:25:24 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 14:28:31 -0700 2008
Mmmm, it didn't bode well for my... sensitive overly PC brain to be re...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 13:02:16 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 20:35:47 -0700 2008 WWW.dailylit.com allows you to read installments as quickly as you can, and many of them are free. My plan was to read it entirely online. I couldn't. I had to have the book in my hand! I've requested the next in t...more...]]> 3 0 false true Sat Apr 26 07:58:02 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 08:46:39 -0700 2008 I'm hooked. I'd never read much of anything on the Early Modern Period before. It looked dull. It wasn't.

This series has become a sort of massive shared world/braided novel thing. A world-building, world-evolving tour de force following the ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Mar 20 16:40:10 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 17:35:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 01 18:13:27 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 16:20:47 -0700 2007
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Though there is a apparently a large following of this series, it failed to capture my interest like The Cross-Time Engineer series by Frankowski.

I suppose thats because there are so many characters and there is so much already at these people's dis...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:19:54 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 22:12:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=16967