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  <title><![CDATA[Trinity]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;p&gt;From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with &lt;i&gt;Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz,&lt;/i&gt; and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the &quot;terrible beauty&quot; of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost -- a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice -- an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land . . . and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.&lt;/p&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Leon Uris]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1978</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In all of Leon Uris's books, the schema is very simple. There are good guys, and there are bad guys, and nowhere is there room for even a shade of ambiguity. This kind of cartoonish view of the world leads to books which might be better classified as propaganda than as historical fiction.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4789466">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't know how I forgot to record this book...I just found it in my garage, one of the few that escaped garage sales or Goodwill!  I keep it around hoping to one day re-read it. I recall running late for work, or returning from lunch, during the time that I read this book because I simply had to w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49224283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1986078">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 14 19:51:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 17 08:46:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Leon Uris is a fantastic storyteller. This book follows the events of an Irishman named Conor Larkin who, by nature, was larger than life. Larkin needed the 19th century as much as the 19th century needed him. The end is a crashing, tragic, dazzling explosion of nonstop events. It makes me wish I wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1986078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="76245901">
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    <location><![CDATA[Houston, TX]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Nov 11 11:18:36 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the select few on my bookshelves that I've bothered to read more than once (quite a feat, as the book is roughly 800 pages or so) and has got to be one of my top five, if not my absolute favorite book of all time.  This is the first Uris book I read, and I became an instant fan.  Leon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76245901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72787938">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dennis]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 28 11:45:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 18 20:40:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Conor Larkin from Ballyutogue is the embodiment of Irish republicanism at the height of the Victorian era when Britain still exerted maximum control over its global empire, including Ireland.  He and best friend Seamus O’Neill learn early in life about the horrendous wrongs repeatedly foisted upon...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72787938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="57986436">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1976</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun May 31 16:20:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 31 16:28:10 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I read this, I think I read it on two levels. First, I went through a period where I couldn't put Leon Uris down. And I think this was still in that period because I was in college then. And I certainly remember sitting at the kitchen table reading one or another of his books late into the nigh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57986436">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62123306">
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    <name><![CDATA[Bridget]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 04 10:14:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 04 10:29:54 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's so much to say about this book. I can't say it all here, but I think this guy wrote a spot-on review of it, so if you want to know more about it, check out the link below. I will just say that Trinity is a book that changed the way I see the world, and as horrifying as the story was at times...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62123306">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42017431">
    <user id="1841938">
    <name><![CDATA[Midoil1]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Andreas, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jan 05 16:06:48 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jan 05 16:12:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an old book that I am embarrassed to say I only picked up in 2008.  Why can't the catholics and the protestants live togather in Northern Ireland?  I can't even begin to cover it all in this review but I will say that I will never look at the British the same ever again.  My last name, Tuck,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42017431">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41293371">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jonathan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Ithaca, NY]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Dec 30 10:09:13 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 10:13:42 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Reading Trinity gave me a much better understanding of the conflict between the Irish and the English, the Catholics and the Protestants.  You can read as many textbooks as you like, but getting the novelist's perspective on daily life and conflict between these parties really illuminates the hatred...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41293371">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="61921565">
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  <date_updated>Thu Jul 02 13:07:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the Leon Uris of Battle Cry, Exodus, and QBVII. Not so much the Leon Uris of The Haj and Mitla Pass. Of all he wrote my favorite is Trinity. Thirty years of Irish history, the intersecting lives of three families, and Conor Larkin. Trinity is a long book that flies by. Action, love, suspense...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61921565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50274118">
    <user id="1568652">
    <name><![CDATA[Brian]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Philadelphia, PA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 24 07:09:54 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 09 07:10:00 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I could not put all 800 pages of this book down.  Fantastic book, makes me want to catch the first plane to Ireland.  Also makes me want to strangle an Englishman... which I guess is scary.<br/><br/>The main characters and events in this book are completely fiction, which I don't like.  Uris even ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50274118">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67332247">
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    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Clark, NJ]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Thu Aug 13 20:49:34 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yet another book I'm emotionally attached to ... I know it's schmaltzy and predictable and every time I read it I want it to end differently.  Maybe a little less death, misery, unhappiness, maybe for one (or more) of the major characters to live, whatever.  With all that said though, I can't stop l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67332247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25881761">
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    <name><![CDATA[K]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 29 21:33:35 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 13 22:03:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great classic historical fiction - highly recommended! Set in the late 1800s / early 1900s, the story centers around the life of two Irish boys growing up during Ireland's struggle for freedom from the British.  I began this book feeling uninformed about the reasons behind the current day fighting b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25881761">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="17847524">
    <user id="804897">
    <name><![CDATA[Bruce]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everybody interested in history to know how things got to how they are today.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Mar 16 01:03:22 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 16 01:24:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually own a special leather-bound edition of this book I like it so much.  One of my favorite reads, the story of Conor Larkin through the early and middle parts of 20th Century Ireland is difficult to put down.  The story begins with a wake and quickly establishes the tableau of the Larkins' a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17847524">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17847524]]></url>
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    <review id="16544181">
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    <name><![CDATA[Abi]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 27 14:29:40 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 19 12:39:08 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the book to read if you want to understand the Irish Question, and the fact that there really was no answer to it. I read it when studying 19th century British political history, mainly from the perspectives of Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, all the key players in English politics, but this nove...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16544181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10532739">
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    <name><![CDATA[Tomás]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Dunmanway, West Cork, Ireland]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 16 19:34:19 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[In Trinity, Leon Uris takes history apart and allows readers to look beyond events as taught. So that we might truly understand  what history feels like.<br/><br/>Important, when we study or talk of our past history... Before my Nan passed away, I would walk into the kitchen &amp; she would lie back i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10532739">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10532739]]></url>
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    <review id="45118652">
    <user id="1984308">
    <name><![CDATA[Huw]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Cardiff, Q4, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[Wow, fantastic, epic novel about the struggles of the Irish. Totally compelling characters, and an epic story of the battles between Irish Catholics, Irish Protestants, and the British. Heartbreaking and hard to put down as well as amazing in it's coverage of Irish history. A must read, one of Uris'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54700400">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[To be fair to this book, I had very high expectations going into this because I was told that the main character, Conor Larkin was the only other character as well developed as Jamie Fraser from Outlander fame. Unfortunately, that didn't quite pan out, but then again, that was an unrealistic expecta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37831629">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned so much about Ireland and the Catholic/Protestant issue.  I just wish someone could write an uplifting book about Ireland.  Every book I have read is filled with poverty, alcoholism and domestic abuse.  Oh, and good for nothing husbands.  I'm sure there's got to be something positive to be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44816692">more...</a>]]></body>
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