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  <title><![CDATA[The Chessmen of Mars (Barsoom, #5)]]></title>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1922</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[Depending on my mood, this is either my favorite or second favorite of the Barsoom books.  As with my other favorite, 'A Fighting Man of Mars', the hero of the story isn't that veritable demigod Virginian, John Carter, but a native Martian - in this case Gahan the Jed (or King) of Gathol - a small b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23515164">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54516827">
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  <read_at>Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 30 15:24:28 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue May 05 02:22:06 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[“The Chessmen of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs is the fifth book in the Barsoom series.  After “Thuvia, Maid of Mars” was something of a disappointment, this installment may be the best of the series.  As with the prior book, this one focuses on different characters than any of the earlier b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54516827">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67826278">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 17 19:33:47 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 17 19:41:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[  I spent my childhood devouring ERB's books and had recalled the Martian series as particular favorites. My cousin and I even made a martian chess set to play with but that was over a half century ago. Listened to the Tantor audiobook of this title -  oh, my! The reader was truly abysmal so maybe t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67826278">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="14811943">
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  <date_added>Thu Feb 07 07:58:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 07 08:13:02 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These were considered &quot;planetary romances&quot; according to one source back when this series from the creator of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was written.  This series of about 10 books started in 1912 and culminated around 1948.  There's an odd mention of a book in 1964, but the other had be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14811943">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="43355016">
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    <name><![CDATA[Robb]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Sat Jan 17 09:47:31 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jan 17 09:59:23 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been so long since I've read these books that the details are lost in the mist of time.  That said, I'm sure there are variations in the quality of story and prose throughout this series (it's Burroughs, after all), but I choose to remember the series as a whole, and rate it as I remember it th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43355016">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59291593">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jay]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 11 11:31:39 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 11 11:37:14 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cheesy fun, I love how the characters often talk to each other using full name and title.  I listened to a Librivox version, but I may pick up other of Burroughs work if I'm in the mood.  This is what good B or C movies replaced, then inexplicably became summer blockbusters like the Mummy series and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59291593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61144168">
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 25 21:04:27 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 25 21:06:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[These books were written in the early years of the 20th century, before the term &quot;science fiction&quot; came into usage. You could just as easily categorize them as fantasy. I'm putting them on my science fiction shelf because I think of them as proto-science fiction. It's an arbitrary coin-tos...]]></body>
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    <review id="52272990">
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    <name><![CDATA[Adrian]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 1981</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this whole series. It's pretty sexual and macho and they're all massive page-turners.<br/><br/>Same review for each.]]></body>
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    <review id="39191235">
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 03 08:16:20 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Dec 03 08:17:41 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[For out of this world adventure the Barsoom series is great.]]></body>
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    <review id="27612407">
    <user id="1336573">
    <name><![CDATA[Charles]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 18 08:16:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jul 18 10:52:35 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first, but by no means last, Sword &amp; Planet novel to feature a living chess game, or the Martian equivalent.  I just loved the fight scenes that take place on the Martian chess board.  Some day I'll do this with the Taleran series.]]></body>
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    <review id="10451268">
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    <name><![CDATA[Fred V]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ticonderoga, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1968</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 14 20:55:43 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Did you build a martian chess board? I did, while the book was essentially a pot boiler, the theme and apppendix was facinating!...fvp]]></body>
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    <review id="13595871">
    <user id="746637">
    <name><![CDATA[Sally]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 25 23:05:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 25 23:05:32 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Imaginative adventure, with some interesting concepts too.]]></body>
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    <review id="34973748">
    <user id="1181526">
    <name><![CDATA[Travis]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 10 07:37:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this series...]]></body>
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    <review id="79022671">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 26 06:15:25 -0800 2009</read_at>
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