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    <body><![CDATA[After a couple of dud books that I had been looking forward to, I was really relieved when I picked this one up and was hooked almost from the first page. Maybe it helped that I skipped the long introduction and got right into the story.<br/><br/>This is a retelling of the Biblical story of Jacob ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15669616">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of story in this one! Long, involving story of two brothers on the outs because of the offense one gives the other and the way the father treats the two of them. The Master is well portrayed, through several different points of view, all handled very well, showing the Master to be an enormously...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70155102">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic of sibling rivalry, akin to the story (somewhat) of Cain and Abel. The final confrontation between the brothers in the vast American wilderness is priceless.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting characterization and a somewhat shitty ending. Definitely worth a read. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Kidnapped" title="Kidnapped">Kidnapped</a>, much to my chagrin. This has an odd sense of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Poe" title="Poe">Poe</a> about it; almost a synthesis of some Poe short story and Stevenson's usual adventure formula. Probably my least favorite of all the Stevenson novels I've read, counting Treasure Island.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the darkest books I've ever read!  Agonizing and thrilling at the same time. A story of brotherly rivalry taken to a bloody extreme. Definitely NOT in the same vein as Treasure Island or Kidnapped. Read for Dr. B's Scottish lit class. <br/><br/>12/21/07.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Set in Scotland during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, in the exotic French Indies, and in the North American wilderness, the story has as its hero one of the most compelling yet horrifying studies of evil in nineteenth-century fiction&#8212;James Durie, Master of Ballantrae. The Master is about his infective influence&#8212;on his younger, less attractive brother Henry; on Henry's wife Alison; and on those narrators whom Stevenson so skilfully employs to present their experiences of this charming, ruthless, and evil man.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I felt like Robert Louis Stevenson failed to bring out the evilness of the Master of Ballantrae- it kind of felt like I got an outline of the horrible things the character was capable of, but no meat to make it interesting. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had never even heard of this book until it was picked by our book club.  It was GREAT!  I would put it in the same orbit as The Woman in White. (if you have seen the old black and white movie you do NOT know the story.)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fabulous book! A close tie for my favorite Stevenson book. The style is classically Stevenson, and the story is so amazing that I finished this book too quickly. A must read!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's difficult to put this book down although it's not as good as Treasury Island.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good writing, but a horribly disturbing and depressing story!]]></body>
    
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