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    <body><![CDATA[I read &quot;The Gap&quot; series, a five-novel saga from Stephen R. Donaldson.<br/><br/>I think Donaldson does better with SF than fantasy. The series is set in a future as created by something called the Gap Drive, an FTL travel method that sometimes drives people mad. It starts out with a compl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12756773">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Was recommended by a friend who I hold in high regard as far as book recommendations. To his credit the underlying story of this book had me really interested in what would happen next but the graphic seemingly unending rape and sexual torture was just too much to take. I have read enough reviews to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52898024">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i read all the books in this series (five i think) and it's pretty dark in general but this one is especially disturbing as it involves the habitual rape of the heroine(?). i'm not giving anything away, this happens pretty quickly.  despite the graphic violence, i really liked the gap series and i'm...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43247870">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Gap Series is SciFi as it should be! I love this series! I started reading the first book in the series in the early 90s, way before Amazon made it easy to obtain hard to find books. It's taken me months to collect all of the books in the series. <br/><br/>In the first, very short novel a scen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20937680">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was the hardest book to read.  If I had not been warned, I never would have finished it.  Even warned, I wanted to quit reading several times.  Luckily, it is a very fast read.  <br/><br/>It is not a 'stand-alone' book.<br/><br/>But, what a ride the the series is!!!  And the first book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72258368">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A vile book full of rape, misogyny, violence and obscenity, but absolutely necessary to read if one is to embark on reading the whole series (which is definitely worth it).  The only upside is it's very short.<br/><br/>I wonder how many people have been put off the series by the foulness of the fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68187453">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>This book is a bit of an odd introduction to the Gap series. It almost reads like a self-contained novella and wasn't meant to be extended into a series. Things really get good in the second book, <u>Forbidden Knowledge</u>, where the characters get flushed out and things feel more natural. You have to rea...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35841416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Stephen Donaldson's &quot;Gap&quot; series is one my favorite series. <br/><br/>My father handed me the first one, saying, &quot;This is full of violence and rape and you'll probably hate all the characters in this first book, but the story just keeps getting better.&quot;<br/><br/>He was right....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1813877">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ Hard-bitten space adventure. I liked the author telling the story through a casual observer then through someone a little bit more in-the-know and then telling the &quot;real story&quot;. I was uncomfortable with the violence and rape in this story.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I generally read more fantasy rather than true science fiction, but this series was so amazing. Its been years since I read them and now that I put them on my shelf here, I think that I am going to have to pick them up again. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Intense science fiction for adults only!  Subject matter here is very harsh and not meant for young readers.  A great science fictions story with elements from Richard Wagner's Ring Das Nibelungen.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because I have liked other Stephen Donaldson titles.  While the story is good, the book contains an excess of foul language, which interfered with my enjoyment of the story. ]]></body>
    
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