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  <title><![CDATA[The Last Coin]]></title>
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  <default-description>From Publishers Weekly:

In Blaylock's contemporary fantasy, the fate of the world falls into the hands of a daydreaming eccentric named Andrew Vanbergen. This quick-tempered Californian is muddling through the conversion of his rambling home into an inn and cafe when he unwittingly becomes one of the Caretakers who have kept the world safe for nearly two millennia. The danger is that someone like Andrew's mysterious guest Jules Pennyman will gather together Judas Iscariot's original 30 pieces of silver, thereby summoning up an apocalyptic magic. Against a lyric vision of the Southern California coast, cosmic conspiracy theories bump heads in a gleeful farce to produce another strange and wonderful book from the idiosyncratic author of Homunculus and Land of Dreams.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1988</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Last Coin</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[James P. Blaylock]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this book in the late 90â€™s and loved it. Ten years or so later, and Iâ€™ll admit to struggling with it this time around. This is more a reflection on me than the book - unless the fiction fairies have been subtly altering the plot whilst I wasnâ€™t looking. Still enjoyable, just somet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43043523">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 20 11:02:52 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a long time ago and really liked it. I'd like to find another copy and read it again.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 11:05:45 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The funniest modern fantasy novel.  Evar!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The pernicious Mr. Pennyman aims to gather the last of the thirty pieces of silver given to Judas Iscariot. Standing in his way is Andrew Vanbergen, Vancouver innkeep and cereal connoisseur. Vanbergen has to be one of the dumbest protagonists I've come across - genuinely doltish, the sort of person ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8073779">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Mar 07 13:48:49 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the same cover, not the same edition, but close enuf.  Blaylock is in that minority of SF writers who're also clearly comical.  I like that combination.  Other writers that spring to mind are the team of G. C. Edmondson &amp; C. M. Kotlan, Ron Goulart, &amp; Rudy Rucker.  I'd read more by him if I ever ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17255965">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Oct 15 11:44:50 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whimsy is a tricky beast, and rarely successful. This book is sort of like the movie &quot;Amelie&quot; for me. I didn't find the main character's antics very charming or amusing, so they end up reading as psychotic and irritating. Reminded me of novels I read in junior high school, though I don't t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46549363">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is quirky, which, I understand, is how many of Blaylock's novels are.  It is pretty funny and enjoyable, but if you're looking to laugh out loud a lot, I wouldn't say this book brings that on.  It definitely brings on some smiles, a few chuckles and an admiration of the characters.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tim Powers lite, very enjoyable.  I found myself constantly laughing at the ceaseless internal monologue of the main character.  The story was engaging if not earth-shattering.  I'll be reading more from Mr. Blaylock.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the way he wrote. the characters came to life. the older man in this one cracked me up.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolutely fantastic. One of my favorite books of all times.]]></body>
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