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    <body><![CDATA[Not to enter into the great Tolkien-invented-modern-heroic-fantasy-and-everyone-else-is-just-an-imitator debate but I've loved this book for a long time and it pains me to see it dismissed as a cheap copy of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">The Lord of the Rings</a>. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/656983.J_R_R_Tolkien" title="J.R.R. Tolkien">J.R.R. Tolkien</a> based middle earth on his research, and while a wonder...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19970388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After a slow start, the book delivered what all the critical acclaim was about.  Deep characters, elegant prose, creative and unique concepts that blend nicely with familiar mythology to be thought provoking.  This is a masterful piece of epic fantasy.  Not for beginners to the genre though, the com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30525383">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Guy Gavriel Kay s fantasy trilogy about a land called Fionavar is a little over 20 years old. I ve never heard of this Canadian author before, but an online friend was so adamant that I should read it that he ordered the books from Amazon and had them delivered to me as a gift.[return][return]The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42338956">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong><u>The Review</u></strong><br/><br/>I generally don't write a review for a book unless I finish it.  I don't think it's fair to the author or to others interested in the book.  <br/><br/>I didn't finish this book.  <br/><br/>However, I did spend a significant amount of time on this book, so I think I do have ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29632203">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Five Canadian college students are transported to a magical kingdom, and all of them are pretty blasé about it. Their lack of reaction cued me in pretty early on that I wasn’t going to like this book. None of these characters felt like real people to me; the students are pretty interchangeable (o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12726980">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first introduction to Kay was the stand-alone novel, Tigana. It took me a while to really get into Tigana, but I really started to appreciate Kay's eloquent style, fleshed out characters and whit in dialogue and plot development. I decided that before going on to read the rest of his works, I had...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8239834">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being a  fan of Guy Gavriel Kay on the basis some of his other works (particularly The Sarantine Mosaic and Tigana, books which I find to be among the best in the fantasy genre), I was incredibly excited to read this, his first novel. I have never been a fan of the &quot;person/people from our world...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1057047">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[everyone says this is a LOTR rip off, but i personally can't stand the narrative style of LOTR. every five years or i try to read LOTR and i just can't. i get maybe 100 pages in, if i'm being extra patient, and then chuck the whole endeavor. and truly, an endeavor is what it feels like: long and ard...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6257836">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a twist on the usual children or teenagers go to another world to save it, because the five people who go to Fionavar are young adults, college-aged people who are not quite mired in the day-to-day kinds of responsibilities that would keep them from accepting an invitation to visit another w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46152278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a sword-and-sorcery type of fantasy novel with a dash of parallel worlds sci-fi and a little angsty personal drama mixed in too. While there are definitely some similiarities to other famous fantasy trilogies - I particularly kept remembering <em>Lord of the Rings</em> and <em>The Belgariad</em> - Kay changes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59954881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful novel. I was intrigued by the fact that the framing concept (normal people drawn into fantasy world and become integral players in saving the world, etc.) is similar to Chronicles of Narnia, and yet it keeps getting compared to Lord of the Rings. I'll be honest by saying that I was ready t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79539957">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(This review is for the whole series.)<br/><br/>These books were pretty good and a fast read. I'm told Kay's later work is even better but I like to get a feel for an author from their beginning so I started here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really wish I'd started this series years ago. Kay brings a blend of Tolkien-ish fantasy and modern reality to the table in 'The Summer Tree.' I was initially reminded of Alan Dean Foster's 'Spellsinger' series, as the 5 main players come from our Earth, but the comparisons quickly fell by the way...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68878813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Three and a half stars - kinda overblown in many parts (I prefer my fantasy understated and practical in style) but even knowing that in the next book the author brings in Arthur, for god's sake, I still went and found the next in the trilogy on finishing this one. So there's definitely something th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53995906">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Guy Gavriel Kay seems to be highly regarded in the fantasy field, so I've been wanting to reading some of his books for a long time now. Obsessive-compulsive that I am, I tend to like to read things in chronological order. This isn't always a good thing, particularily in the case of an author's firs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41195903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42348533">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am glad that I read Ysabel first because if I had started with this one, I don't think I would have been in a hurry to read the rest of the series. There were parts of this story that I really loved - particularly the character relationships, not of the 5 people from Earth, though they were intere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42348533">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55227913">
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  <read_at>Thu May 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book I truly enjoyed, more so than I expected.  Having read a couple of previous books from this author, I knew I would like this.  However, I enjoyed this firs book (of 3) to a much higher degree than anticipated.<br/><br/>This book seemed to grab at a much more emotional level than the othe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55227913">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know that point ten minutes from the hour when you realise the storyline in the show you're watching can't possibly resolve itself, then you see 'To Be Continued' and just know deep in your soul that you won't remember to come back and watch the next part, which in turn means you just wasted an ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41371073">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I spent years of my youth looking for an appropriate heir to my favorite book(s) - <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">The Lord of the Rings</a> - and wasted a lot of time reading mediocre fantasy. Of course, I did encounter and enjoy Terry Brooks, David Eddings, and, more recently, Robert Jordan and others that I thoroughly enjoyed. Litt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42093360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Strictly speaking, fantasy is never believable, but I do appreciate an internally consistent world that &quot;makes sense&quot; if one accepts certain premises. With The Finovar Tapestry trilogy, I didn't find that. I simply can't believe that just the right five people were assembled on just the ri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38654871">more...</a>]]></body>
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