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  <title><![CDATA[Canticle (Forgotten Realms: The Cleric Quintet, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;High in the Snowflake Mountains sits the Edificant Library, a place of scholarly study for priests, bards, and others. Now from the hidden vaults beneath the library a devastating curse is unleashed, and a young cleric must battle the terrifying creatures set loose by a malevolent, consuming essence.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Best-selling fantasy R.A. Salvatore begins the saga of Cadderly, the scholar-priest, and his loyal companions, as they battle an age-old evil.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Canticle (Forgotten Realms: The Cleric Quintet, #1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[R.A. Salvatore]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 27 23:59:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 17 01:03:24 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book In Salvatore's Cleric Quintet series.  I actually heard him speak once, and he said that he didn't want to write a book about a cleric, but about a monk (hence Danica being a monk).  Interestingly enough, this series turned out to be one of his most popular.<br/><br/>It star...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41068083">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="40872285">
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  <read_at>Thu Dec 22 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Dec 25 06:14:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Dec 25 06:22:25 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[R.A. Savatore is one of my favourite authors but I never like his main character; whom I have been informed he models on himself, so I don't like him but his work is pretty alright.  What I like about his works are the supporting and side characters, if the stories could solely be up of these endear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40872285">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="62709294">
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  <date_added>Wed Jul 08 19:26:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 08 19:28:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't think I even finished it. Main character is a TOTAL Gary-Stu. His character flaw is that he cares too much. I just couldn't keep reading anymore.]]></body>
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    <review id="56515130">
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  <date_added>Mon May 18 13:32:37 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 18 13:33:31 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I became engrossed in these characters lifes and adventures and it encouraged me to read the rest of the series, which is unlike me.]]></body>
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    <review id="73312635">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 03 11:00:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 20 18:45:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm... this was ok... More than any of his other book, it often felt like someone narrating a D&amp;D game. I know that's what these stories are, and that's fun, but it seemed a little too obvious at times. Still fun, though.]]></body>
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    <review id="23561358">
    <user id="1077882">
    <name><![CDATA[Melissa]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 02 18:19:32 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 02 18:31:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took a bit of work for me to get into this book.  Finishing it was more a matter of determination than desire. I have the whole series (luckily picked up at a library book sale for almost nothing), so I'm working on book 2 now; it might take a while to get through this series, but I will. I'm jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23561358">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23561358]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="33339544">
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    <name><![CDATA[Brian]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 20 06:59:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 20 07:02:44 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have attempted to read <em>Canticle</em> at least twice.  I find it to be slow and uninteresting.  I have spoken with a few people who have read the series and they have said it is slow, but it does pick up later and that the rest of series is really good.  So maybe I will start again...someday.  ]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="8397708">
    <user id="202063">
    <name><![CDATA[Cameron]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Oct 29 13:22:40 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 29 13:24:53 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had very high hopes for this book.  I read it on vacation and while I did finish, I didn't feel an urgency to read &quot;just one more chapter&quot; like I do for those books I really love.  It was a good book, but didn't love it and will not rush to read the next in the series.]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="20640855">
    <user id="1096242">
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 21 09:34:54 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 21 09:35:51 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Putting a review here, because this is a different series.  Takes place in approximately the same time and place as the books involving Drizzt, but with totally different characters, and a bit of a different feel.  These books were fabulous, all five of them.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20640855]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="13897412">
    <user id="712749">
    <name><![CDATA[Heinleinfan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 28 20:44:23 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 28 20:45:30 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Salvatore!!<br/><br/>This series is absolutely full of great characters.  The books are all quick, fun, adventerous reads, so it's easy to breeze through the whole quintet.<br/><br/>Doo-dad.  Hee hee!]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13897412]]></url>
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    <review id="744402">
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    <name><![CDATA[lamarcus]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Sierra Vista, AZ]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Apr 16 10:40:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed the Dark elf novels and so i picked these up; written before Salvatory wrote of Drizzt.  These 5 books were ok, but that's it, ok.  It didn't hold me like the afore mentioned series.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="34897830">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stephen]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Oct 09 08:40:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 31 17:04:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading the Dark Elf trilogy, I've found that any other characters just don't grab my attention. Perhaps if I continue through the series this story's adventurers will grow on me.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34897830]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="6791948">
    <user id="419011">
    <name><![CDATA[Que]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[swords and magic and Clerics]]></recommended_for>
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  <date_added>Tue Sep 25 15:57:04 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Sep 25 15:57:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[R.A. Salvatore has written yet again, a great series! read the whole series....]]></body>
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    <review id="24379431">
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    <name><![CDATA[Aaron]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 12 20:22:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 12 20:23:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[it was a pretty good book, action, wizardry, and sword fighting.]]></body>
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    <review id="16645728">
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    <body><![CDATA[When I need a new series to consider....]]></body>
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    <review id="78916675">
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