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  <title><![CDATA[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon]]></title>
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  <default-description>Callahan's Place is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but. Pull up a chair, grab a glass of your favorite, and listen to the stories spun by time travelers, cybernetic aliens, telepaths....and a bunch of regular folks on a mission to save the world, one customer at a time.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1977</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Spider Robinson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1986</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spider's best work is his first work (His first three, to be exact, though he will vehemently insist, &quot;it is NOT a trilogy, damn it!&quot;) <br/><br/>Callahan's Place is a bar, and yes, Michael Callahan serves alcoholic beverages, but that's where any similarity to any other drinking establis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59384691">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 12 22:48:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[All I can say is, I want to go make a toast at Callahan's Place, and become a regular at this bar where the patrons are lifelong friends and &quot;family&quot; first, rotten punsters second, and drinking buddies last. <br/><br/>This is a collection of short stories about Callahan's Place, a rather...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55896371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9361287">
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  <date_added>Tue Nov 20 12:33:35 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 20 12:35:20 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading the Callahan's books is like sitting down for a cup of (Irish) coffee with old friends to me. Everyone needs a little Callahan's in their life. &quot;Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased; thus do we refute entropy.&quot;]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[i no longer need to read spider robinson. ]]></body>
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    <review id="27306324">
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 15 08:20:10 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 18 22:37:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was pleasantly surprised to find that Callahan's Crosstime Saloon offers an entertaining  demonstration of folk (ie: the author) coming to terms with the state of the world at the end of the 1960s, as most evidenced by the second story &quot;The Time Traveler&quot;.  Wikipedia sums up my observati...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27306324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41498387">
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 10:43:30 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 10:51:44 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These short stories, all tied together with a common place/cast, make you feel like maybe human beings aren't such cruel animals after all.  Opening the first several Callahan books feels like a refreshing visit with old friends.  You know them, and their quirks, and that if they're involved with a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41498387">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41855313">
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  <date_added>Sun Jan 04 12:22:33 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 04 12:23:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imagine Cheers if it had a bit more a sci-fi bent, weird aliens and science parables as well as all the things that show had to say about the human condition. That's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, a strange, hilarious and often touching setting for Robinson's short stories. All of his Callahan's books...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41855313">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72663522">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 27 11:08:15 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 27 11:08:15 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spider Robinson is The Giant of SF in the 80s and 90s, rightfully inheriting the crown from Heinlein.  But when we read these first stories back in the 80s we only knew that here was a man who really understood the depths of the human heart, and the way that &quot;ordinary&quot; life can be understo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72663522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61913654">
    <user id="2472822">
    <name><![CDATA[Rebecca]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 11:49:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 11:49:55 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>12</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[There is not ONE of the Callahan's books that I would not highly recommend.  They are all wonderful, funny, engaging reads.  No, sadly there is no real Callahan's, although the Place has spawned MANY on-line sites that come close (and a few that don't).  We should all find a Callahan's to go to.  Or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61913654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38975840">
    <user id="1328950">
    <name><![CDATA[Judy]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Nov 30 16:56:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Nov 30 16:59:04 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG -- there's no better way to understand Spider Robinson than to read this book.  Read the entire series, in order, starting with this one.  The friends and soon-to-be friends who gather at this saloon are like no others anywhere!  Everything written by Spider Robinson is unique and exceptional.]]></body>
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    <review id="51998115">
    <user id="1798996">
    <name><![CDATA[Valerie]]></name>
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  <date_added>Wed Apr 08 17:31:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 08 17:35:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frankly, I'm not sure I have read everything in this book.  I encountered the Callahan's stories in SF magazines (Analog particularly), and haven't had much to do with anthologies.<br/><br/>I learned some of my favorite puns from this series.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="28418096">
    <user id="1367392">
    <name><![CDATA[Colin]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Seattle, WA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jul 27 08:18:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jul 27 08:25:05 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love the story of the author for starters- as he wrote his way from nighttime sewer security guard to full time author.<br/><br/>Robinson encapsulates everything I enjoy about good prose from story to story and in the process brings you into a great world where you feel comfortable and look forw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28418096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="58751790">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lynda]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sun Jun 07 10:16:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 07 10:17:57 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of short stories.  They are mostly very good.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="45889620">
    <user id="1786615">
    <name><![CDATA[Thomas]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun stories, fun characters, easy read]]></body>
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    <review id="68233956">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jonathanstray]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amusing, kinky.]]></body>
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    <review id="74627092">
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 15 10:20:40 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was a fine book of short stories held together by the locale but overall the appeal was a little over the top as far as the emotions of the people were concerned. I enjoyed it overall]]></body>
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    <review id="15889196">
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    <body><![CDATA[Enjoy a well written story? Enjoy a good pun? Then pour yourself a God's Blessing (that's Irish coffee to most of the world) and pull up a chair and read anything in this series of books by Spider Robinson. He creates characters you can laugh at, laugh with, love, care and even cry about. If you're ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15889196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was ok, if you like puns. I have to say the hippy-ass 'everyone should love everyone' moral of every story got to be a little much; it would have been better if most every problem didn't require a deus-ex-machina to resolve. It is, in fact, amazing how many stories did require resolution t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17503421">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I received this from a friend after an enthusiastic recommendation.  Robinson's stories, however, didn't have a big impact on me.  I had trouble caring about the bar or its patrons, and believing that so many pivotal events could take place in a mundane setting.  The writing is good, though, and I c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11986247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[everyone needs to read the first five 'Callahan' books (and then stop).  Must have at least a tolerance for puns, and you might have to slog through the first book, but as a 'trilogy' the first three make a great series, and are quick reads.  The two books about Callahan's wife are pretty darn good ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2655464">more...</a>]]></body>
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