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  <title><![CDATA[Fallen Dragon]]></title>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">7</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">2001</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Peter F. Hamilton]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not quite up to snuff compared to his earlier masterpiece (I had high expectations!).  It was a little harder to follow, a little more convoluted, and a little less satisfying, although I can't put my finger on why.  The parallel plots with simultaneous flashbacks made it hard to read is short incre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16740399">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a bit of a mish-mash. It follows three characters but really only one of them gets their entire life story told through numerous flashbacks interspersed throughout the regular plot.  The plot, essentially, is that the world of Thallspring is being invaded by pirate creditors who buy up ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50587432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39719728">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jon]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Dec 16 15:56:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty good book ... suffers from a great deal of back story, so the entire novel feels like your losing ground, until 100 pages from the end. Fortunately, it is all entertaining. <br/><br/>Another unfortunate aspect is that there are no likable characters. The protagonist is pig-headed and on the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39719728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68697720">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Tue Sep 01 09:01:36 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I bought this book because I was interested in Peter Hamilton's writing (primarily The Reality Dysfunction) and this book was available on the Bargain Bin for $6.<br/><br/>Having read it, I would say it was easily worth the full price.  Fallen Dragon is a great mix of military sci fi, politics,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68697720">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46426709">
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  <read_at>Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of the Peter F. Hamilton novels I've read (which is a large majority of them), this is my favourite.  It avoids most of the problems I have come to associate with him and has one great merit absent from them: it is about something!  As usual it is a fast-paced thriller but it stands alone, not linke...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46426709">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44327865">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 25 16:09:59 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jan 25 16:21:01 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fallen Dragon is Space Opera by a British Author.  It depicts the life Lawrence Newton, entranced by space exploration.  It depicts a society whose space colonization is controlled by large corporations, who have descended into extracting past due debt with 'asset realization'.  This accomplished vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44327865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51986547">
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 -0800 1969</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 08 15:54:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 08 15:54:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this book teetered on greatness, there is a reason I bought it for $1.99 on the closeout rack.The future &quot;worlds&quot; that he creates are awesome, and the most basic plot pulls you along to determine what happens.However, I finished this book by sheer determination, reading paragraphs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51986547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31882071">
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    <name><![CDATA[Andy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 02 22:01:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 04 08:43:16 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In true Hamilton form, you need to read the 200 pages of back story and preparation before you get to the 500 pages of action.<br/><br/>This book brings some developments to their possible conclusions: The Zantiu-Braun company attempting to &quot;rescue&quot; humanity by colonizing space and makin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31882071">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26193018">
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 03 04:59:47 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 17 01:59:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[J'ai rarement eu un avis aussi mitigé sur un bouquin. <br/>Mais avant d'aller plus loin, un rapide résumé ne peut pas faire de mal. <br/>Dans un récit structuré par les flashbacks sur la vie et la carrière de Lawrence Newton, héros supposé de cette histoire, l'auteur nous conte ses mésave...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26193018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="21810923">
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    <name><![CDATA[Mcgyver5]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Paul, MN]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 30 02:34:20 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed May 07 16:08:25 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jul 30 02:34:20 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I grabbed this at random off the shelf at the library.  600 odd pages went by like a flash.  I was geeking out for many reasons:  A perfect little guerrilla war that makes me worry that the author has fantasized quite a bit about how to be an effective terrorist.  A high-tech forensic examination th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21810923">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29244174">
    <user id="1132713">
    <name><![CDATA[Joshua]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Boise, ID]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 04 14:57:33 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 05 20:31:22 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[You have three main characters in the book, all fighting against each other in different ways.  Yet, somehow, you are trying to root all three of them on.  That, my friends, is impressive.  Hamilton once again creates believable, if not lovable at least enjoyable, characters with all the flaws and f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29244174">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="72306575">
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    <location><![CDATA[Madison, NJ]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 23 21:26:31 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 23 21:47:46 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Hamilton book.  You're reading along and then all of the sudden something really shocking happens.  That kept me going.  He's long on description though, but has some in depth characters.  Ending is very tidy.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="75126087">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dev]]></name>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 20 09:24:01 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 20 09:26:01 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hamilton continues to display excellent storytelling skills melded to a strong grasp of cutting edge sci-fi.  Strong characters and that move back and forth in time and a nice twist of an ending.]]></body>
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    <review id="71096543">
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Sep 13 15:22:18 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good stand alone novel. Lots of good tech and settings with a believable future for humanity if a bleak one. I like the ending especially, the story never quite goes where you expect it to]]></body>
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    <review id="41687167">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great single book, where you don't have to have ready any other books fro the author.  There is a great twist in this book that happens at the very end that was most unexpected.]]></body>
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    <review id="11802893">
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an interesting read, especially from the point of view of the economics described in the book. Imagine a space-traveling society that actually has problems sustaining space travel... Not your usual &quot;Star Trek&quot;-ian society where &quot;everything&quot; has been solved. :) That's why...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11802893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67579034">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[mp3]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't say I'm a huge fan of Hard Sci-Fi but when I picked up this book I have to say that I didn't know what I was missing.  Most of Hamilton's book are pretty thick from what I can tell and I look forward to reading more.  He really knows how to develop a thought-provoking world with in-depths ch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25004643">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Dec 22 09:42:03 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Peter Hamilton novel. If you're looking for a good space epic, this is it. It has space travel, debauched riches, future tech, some philosophy-lite, combat scenes, and vegetarians.<br/><br/>Unlike Hamilton's other novels this one is completely stand-alone in a self contained universe. It pro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10870312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26284258">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kevin]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[nerds]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Jul 04 06:39:29 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decent scifi novel about a future where space exploration has proven to be unprofitable, so the few colonies that have been established are regularly pirated by rival corporations over and over again. Thee are 3 main characters and their stories are interwoven well; the only problem is the ending su...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26284258">more...</a>]]></body>
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