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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've sort of been putting off reading the Dalemark Quartet because I liked having a DWJ series in reserve, but my resolve finally caved.  You can tell this is one of her earlier books; it takes a little while to get into and the pacing is sort of odd at first.  Luckily it gets tighter and more inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39945297">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger.  Somehow Moril's family and the stranger are becoming  bound together in terror, flight, and music.<br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones is recognized as being one of the most outstanding writers of fantasy in recent times.    <br/><br/>The Dalemark Quartet books are for good readers who have enjoyed the Christopher Chant books by the same author.  The books contain the same ability to immerse the reader with real child characters having magical adventures in an imaginary world.    <br/><br/>This genre of fantasy writing is currently very popular due to the success of the recent 'Lord of the Rings' film.    <br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones has won the Guardian Award for fiction and has written over twenty novels in less than twenty years.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been quite a while since I read this, but it seems as good a place as any to say that I consistently enjoy Diana Wynne Jones' books. I can't remember one I didn't like.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What I generally love about Diana Wynne Jones at her very best is the complexity of her writing. Her worlds have immense detail, only hinted at in the actual text. Her characters have dimension and depth, they make difficult decisions and sometimes guess wrong. And right and wrong have shades of gre...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61181232">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd heard of Diana Wynne Jones, but couldn't remember where.  Turns out she's the author of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6294.Howl_s_Moving_Castle" title="Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones">Howl's Moving Castle</a> and Castle in the Sky.  I have yet to read either of those, however, just this one.  It was cute.  Not extremely moving, but a fun coming of age tale with bits of magic thrown in.  Perhap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48952924">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people -- from the past, present, and future -- nust join forces to reunify their beloved land.</p><p>When Moril inherits his father's prized instrument -- a Cwidder said to have belonged to one of the Undying -- he must learn to harness its strange power in time to prevent a destructive civil war.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Diana Wynne Jones has written so few actual series that maybe I had gotten the impression that series were not her strongest writing.  This is emphatically untrue.  <em>Cart and Cwidder</em> is an extremely short book, but its pages are crammed with a delicious beginning to a well-crafted quartet with hidden...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43835998">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The first three volumes of Diana Wynne Jones's spellbinding quartet of novels were originally published in this country in the 1970s, and soon won the mythical kingdom of Dalemark a place on the literary map.</p><p><em>Cart and Cwidder,</em> the first of these intriguing novels, relates the fortunes of Clennen and his family, itinerant musicians who travel the villages of Dalemark in their colorful cart. With warring earldoms and spies everywhere, there is little contact between the North and South of the country, and so the musicians often carry news-and sometimes, as now, a passenger. Who is this Kialan? Is there any connection between him and the sudden violence that overtakes them? The family's fate and Kialan's are bound together in terror and flight-and in music, for the songs of Dalemark mean more than they say.</p><p>Each book is a lure to the next in this classic, irresistible series.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cart and Cwidder starts off with Clennan the Singer and his family as they travel in their cart through the South Dales on their way to the North. The South Dales are under the rigid and heavy hands of their respective earls while the North is freer. The story focuses on Moril, Clennan’s younger s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22952431">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>For centuries, Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the Undying, the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people -- from the past, present, and future -- nust join forces to reunify their beloved land.</p><p>When Moril inherits his father's prized instrument -- a Cwidder said to have belonged to one of the Undying -- he must learn to harness its strange power in time to prevent a destructive civil war.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a series of baronies controlled by tyrannical leaders, a group of traveling musicians drift from town to town doing plays, puppets, and songs. The son of the group, who, like the rest of the family, misses his father, is about to be set on a journey that will challenge the power of the rulers, in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35775474">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There were a few things that didn't quite make sense, but overall I enjoyed the story and am looking forward to the other three Dalemark books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[For that post-Harry, pre-something heavy and involved time.<br/><br/>Recommended to me by my genetics prof (who saw me finishing a Harry Potter book one day on campus).  The Dalemark Quartet is more advanced reading than the Harry Potter books, but the same type of fanstasy and contains a long and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8297532">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger.  Somehow Moril's family and the stranger are becoming  bound together in terror, flight, and music.<br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones is recognized as being one of the most outstanding writers of fantasy in recent times.    <br/><br/>The Dalemark Quartet books are for good readers who have enjoyed the Christopher Chant books by the same author.  The books contain the same ability to immerse the reader with real child characters having magical adventures in an imaginary world.    <br/><br/>This genre of fantasy writing is currently very popular due to the success of the recent 'Lord of the Rings' film.    <br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones has won the Guardian Award for fiction and has written over twenty novels in less than twenty years.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this series 4 times. She has a wonderful style with intricate plots --- i remember wondering how they would all fit together. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The first three volumes of Diana Wynne Jones's spellbinding quartet of novels were originally published in this country in the 1970s, and soon won the mythical kingdom of Dalemark a place on the literary map.</p><p><em>Cart and Cwidder,</em> the first of these intriguing novels, relates the fortunes of Clennen and his family, itinerant musicians who travel the villages of Dalemark in their colorful cart. With warring earldoms and spies everywhere, there is little contact between the North and South of the country, and so the musicians often carry news-and sometimes, as now, a passenger. Who is this Kialan? Is there any connection between him and the sudden violence that overtakes them? The family's fate and Kialan's are bound together in terror and flight-and in music, for the songs of Dalemark mean more than they say.</p><p>Each book is a lure to the next in this classic, irresistible series.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The &quot;Dalemark Quartet&quot; is, in my mind, a series that Diana Wynne Jones wrote before she &quot;became&quot; Diana Wynne Jones.  Skip it.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger.  Somehow Moril's family and the stranger are becoming  bound together in terror, flight, and music.<br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones is recognized as being one of the most outstanding writers of fantasy in recent times.    <br/><br/>The Dalemark Quartet books are for good readers who have enjoyed the Christopher Chant books by the same author.  The books contain the same ability to immerse the reader with real child characters having magical adventures in an imaginary world.    <br/><br/>This genre of fantasy writing is currently very popular due to the success of the recent 'Lord of the Rings' film.    <br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones has won the Guardian Award for fiction and has written over twenty novels in less than twenty years.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This series was a fun, relaxed read, but nothing special. The beginnings were a little slow.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger.  Somehow Moril's family and the stranger are becoming  bound together in terror, flight, and music.<br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones is recognized as being one of the most outstanding writers of fantasy in recent times.    <br/><br/>The Dalemark Quartet books are for good readers who have enjoyed the Christopher Chant books by the same author.  The books contain the same ability to immerse the reader with real child characters having magical adventures in an imaginary world.    <br/><br/>This genre of fantasy writing is currently very popular due to the success of the recent 'Lord of the Rings' film.    <br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones has won the Guardian Award for fiction and has written over twenty novels in less than twenty years.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Plot keeps moving ahead at a good pace.  Nice character development. Fun action.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>The first three volumes of Diana Wynne Jones's spellbinding quartet of novels were originally published in this country in the 1970s, and soon won the mythical kingdom of Dalemark a place on the literary map.</p><p><em>Cart and Cwidder,</em> the first of these intriguing novels, relates the fortunes of Clennen and his family, itinerant musicians who travel the villages of Dalemark in their colorful cart. With warring earldoms and spies everywhere, there is little contact between the North and South of the country, and so the musicians often carry news-and sometimes, as now, a passenger. Who is this Kialan? Is there any connection between him and the sudden violence that overtakes them? The family's fate and Kialan's are bound together in terror and flight-and in music, for the songs of Dalemark mean more than they say.</p><p>Each book is a lure to the next in this classic, irresistible series.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Cart and Cwidder (The Dalemark Quartet, Book 1) by Diana Wynne Jones (1995)&quot;]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Cart and Cwidder is the first in the best-selling Dalemark Quartet of books and tells the story of Moril and his brother and sister who are travelling musicians journeying through Dalemark, until one day they pick up a mysterious passenger.  Somehow Moril's family and the stranger are becoming  bound together in terror, flight, and music.<br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones is recognized as being one of the most outstanding writers of fantasy in recent times.    <br/><br/>The Dalemark Quartet books are for good readers who have enjoyed the Christopher Chant books by the same author.  The books contain the same ability to immerse the reader with real child characters having magical adventures in an imaginary world.    <br/><br/>This genre of fantasy writing is currently very popular due to the success of the recent 'Lord of the Rings' film.    <br/><br/>Diana Wynne Jones has won the Guardian Award for fiction and has written over twenty novels in less than twenty years.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't bother and I can't believe I'd say that about any dwj books!]]></body>
    
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