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    <body><![CDATA[Entertaining and humorous. Boy seeks vengeance on magelords who abuse their power. Elminster is introduced quite young and the reader follows his adventures as he grows older, stronger, and powerful enough to finally seek revenge on his parents deaths. Keeps you guessing as to how all the characters...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26702659">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Silly fun... not particularly well written, but his notes in this edition explain that he wrote the whole thing in a few weeks under some crazy deadline. You can definitely tell. Just all over the place. I'll probably read the second one to see where it goes...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really loved this book and actually love everything that Ed Greenwood wrote that I could get my hands on.  Elminster has to be one of the best characters I have ever had the pleasure of enjoying and I think I might have to see about picking up an old book to refresh myself with him.]]></body>
    
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