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    <body><![CDATA[Dang, I wish I had let this series go after the second book.<br/><br/>So the first book introduces Miriam and Worlds One and Two (ours and the Clan's). The second book spends a huge amount of time bringing us into World Three and the missing branch of the Clan's family. But in book three (The Clan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70097814">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's just getting silly, at this point.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miriam Beckstein (American business journalist) found out in Book 1 of this series that her family comes from an alternate world. a family of world-walkers, who think disturbingly similarly to the Mafia.<br/><br/>Miriam, (now Countess Helge) tries to be a 21C modern woman, starting her own busines...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30559795">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series has its first less-than-stellar entry in &quot;The Clan Corporate&quot;. I would have to say that my review here, though, is merely an indication of how much I've grown to love the series and its characters over the course of my frantic weeklong immersion in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26205757">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miriam is now being confine to her families world and not allowed to cross time travel.  Then she gets involve with sticking her nose into secret family business.  Her Uncle writes a death warrant her but suspends.  She is to be married to the idiot son of the King.<br/><br/><br/>This would tie t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54329556">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a good installment in the Merchant Princes saga. I liked how Miriam tried to keep her dignity and sense of self even when things look bleak. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, The Merchants' War.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Continuing the series. I've kind of decided this is the only set of Stross work where he's managed to move through the pastiche into something of his own, and it's pretty good. He should do more of that.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book takes a darker turn than most of the first two, and brings the action up a notch, but with far too much character introspection and speculation/mental torture rather than story.<br/><br/>It also has far too much of a 9/11 influence on where things are going, something that annoys me in m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73224849">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Slowed down again...and there were nagging errors in proofreading throughout the series that drove me bonkers, but the characters were still engaging.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These books keep managing to get worse. The first one had a fantastic concept that drew me in, but the execution made me wince: The writing is quite frankly terrible, and I'm sorry to say it keeps getting worse. I'm pretty sure there's a point in this book when the author randomly starts inserting t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47570885">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Economic sci-fi, now with a strong dose of post 9/11 gov't paranoia thrown on top as a special sauce. I love this series. =-)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this was one of the weaker books so far.  The intrigue in the book did not hold my fancy and the action was kind of sparse.  There is now a &quot;transcription&quot; section that didn't make much sense to me until later in the book.<br/><br/>(probably if I read it properly, it would have m...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the third book in Stross' Merchant Princes series.   There's quite a bit less action that in its predecessors, but it sets the stage for the struggle for control of Niejwein and the Clan itself. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably my least favorite of the series so far. I enjoyed it, but I kept feeling like I was missing something. There was a lot of unwritten subtext that just flew right over my head.]]></body>
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