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  <title><![CDATA[Divided Kingdom]]></title>
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  <default_description>One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Parry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. Reacting to their country&amp;#8217;s inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violence, the powers that be establish four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each. These new partitions are reinforced with concrete barricades and razor wire. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, working as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2005</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Divided Kingdom</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Rupert Thomson]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I agree that on the surface this is indeed a 'dystopian' novel.  It has the standard beginning -- there is a description of a very different future that hinges on a drastic change made by a totalitarian government.  It's supposed to pave the way to paradise but of course the result is dreadful for m...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73225193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rupert Thomson has proven to be a master of the English language, gifted in weaving multi-plotted stories into the fabric that is the main tapestry of his novels. Previous novels, such as &quot;Dreams of Leaving&quot; and &quot;The Insult&quot;, also endow Thomson with a crown of originality . It is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18667855">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose it was only a matter of time until I would encounter Rupert Thomson's work, because my affinity for dystopian novels/stories has continued to grow since I read the highly influential <em>1984</em>. Similar to Huxley's <em>Brave New World</em>, Orwell's <em>1984</em> and <em>Animal Farm</em>, Atwood's <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17514023">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 17 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like Rupert Thomson a lot.  Ever since the neon orange spine of a paperback copy of his novel Soft called out to me at a London airport book shop prior to boarding an overseas plane back to the States in the summer of 2004 I've been hooked.  By now I have read each of his eight novels published th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5097983">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A disturbing twisted near view of our future. Intriguing. Poetically written. And one that’s hard to classify. I loved the first half of the book (at this point, it was five stars all the way) but from then on, much like the protagonist (which may have been the point) it seemed to meander without ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46014121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A quirky, poetic vision of an alternative England set in the near future.<br/><br/>I didn't give myself enough time to really savour the complexity of the plot as it was a selection for a library reading group. Still I now have my own copy and plan to revisit it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting read; a Britain divided along the lines of temperament and character, almost a ninteenth century approach to psychology. <br/>Well worth reading. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Certainly a serious and thoughtful book, but I was generally left the feeling that it wasn't worth the time it took to read it.  This is not a feeling I generally get from books, thus the poor rating.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a very interesting concept, but it seemed to by and large just kind of ramble around in circles.  It was predictable and there were some pieces that seemed to be there just because the author felt the need to increase the page count.  The 'white people' were the most infuriating; they just ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14084602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="40687114">
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    <body><![CDATA[A surreal version of a future world. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://legalmama.today.com/2009/07/25/divided-kingdom-by-rupert-thomson-a-review/" title="http://legalmama.today.com/2009/07/25/divided-kingdom-by-rupert-thomson-a-review/">http://legalmama.today.com/2009/07/25/di...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74420708">
    <user id="1317086">
    <name><![CDATA[Jeanette]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very clever plot : ). ]]></body>
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    <review id="24587774">
    <user id="1241701">
    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Louisville, KY]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a sucker for dystopia novels. This one is unique in that it doesn't take the usual path of Mad-Maxland. In standard fascist style, a country is split into fourths based on 4 general psychological dispositions. A Government agent escapes on a trip through all 4 areas, which is strictly verbotten,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24587774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely and depressed piece on a future of confusion and the lack of life's spark.  Despite the wonderful pacing and driving narrative I felt the piece was exactly 1 chapter too long.  Ten was simply not needed and substantially deflated the romance left lingering after nine.]]></body>
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    <review id="29346958">
    <user id="651227">
    <name><![CDATA[Justin]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love bleak novels set in dystopian/supposed utopian Britain. Divided Kingdom is just a different take on the formula popularized in Brazil or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5805.V_for_Vendetta" title="V for Vendetta by Alan Moore">V for Vendetta</a>. <br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="2904314">
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    <name><![CDATA[Alex]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rupert Thomson's HORRIBLE vision of the future, where the UK is split into 4 zones, where people are replaced according to their humour (phlegmatic, melancholy etc.) Pretty damn good except he seemed to lose his way at the end a little (I think he always does).]]></body>
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    <review id="7132707">
    <user id="408190">
    <name><![CDATA[sisterimapoet]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[West Sussex, WS, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Sadly this didn't live up to my expectations.  A great idea, but poorly executed.  I feel that Thomson tried to cover too much in the space of the novel.  If he had tightened his focus a bit more it would have been a far stronger novel.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dystopian fiction that skirts the edge of sci-fi, but not enough to make it suck. As with all Thomson's books, the ambiguity level is high. The least difficult of his books on a purely reading-for-entertainment level. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Unreadable.  Interesting concept - a society divided on personality types but even the concept is full of holes in its execution, and the plot was horrendous.  I gave up about half way through.]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Steve]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 19 12:52:39 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Apr 23 10:17:50 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a fan of Rupert Thomson, having read four of his previous novels, and always interested in seeing what he's up to. This was quite good, though a bit slow at points.]]></body>
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