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    <body><![CDATA[For the most part I really enjoyed reading The Coffee Trader by David Liss. The main protagonist is Miguel, a Portuguese Jew, living in Amsterdam, and working as a broker in the emerging stock exchange.  Miguel and a Dutch woman, Geertruid, scheme to corner the coffee market.  Hampering there effort...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6491534">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very strong book to read. By that, this book has depth. As a historical novel, you want some glimpse into the world as it was so that you leave with some factual understanding of that period admidst the fiction. In Coffee Trader you learn a great deal about Amsterdam, the center of finance...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43786427">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was fantastic on so many levels. Liss does an excellent job portraying 17th century Amsterdam, providing a view of a culture that has been considered famously tolerant - and shows the limit of that tolerance. This is an issue that has been famously re-examined recently, about how the Dutch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53093019">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[With all my other obligations lately, I have been so tired that I have not been up to my usual readable self...<br/><br/>The Coffee Trader is keeping me engaged!  During this story, Amsterdam has already emerged as the center of the world's trade, attracting merchants from every land of importance. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52386492">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is where the rating scale for Goodreads is not quite right.  I acknowledge that this is a really good book that I liked slightly less than it deserves, only because there were parts of the story (ie, finance) that I really didn't care for.  Hence the 3 stars instead of 4.  Still, it's a well-to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40041683">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Coffee Trader is the first book I have read by David Liss.  I enjoyed reading about the Amsterdam commodities exchange of the 1600's.  The main character, Miguel Lienzo, a trader who has recently had a run of bad fortune on the exchange, envisions a means of gaining riches and finds that he is n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39082975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I guess I'll read this one. It can't possibly be as good as his other two. It's about coffee. Who can write this much about coffee?&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;Ugggggghhhh it's about stocks in coffee. It's not even about coffee coffee?&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;It takes place in Amsterdam? Weed.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71629195">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm really glad I read The Conspiracy of Paper first, because I don't think I would have bothered if The Coffee Trader was all I had to judge by.  <br/><br/>The book wasn't bad, but it wasn't really good, either.  The primary part is I found the main character completely unsympathetic so it was re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37415058">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Gostei muito da história de Miguel Lourenço e da forma como se conseguiu desenvicilhar dos seus problemas num país para ele tão estranho.<br/>Nota-se a grande pesquisa histórica do Autor sobre os mercados do café no Sec. XV, altura em que a Holanda dominava grande parte dos negocias da Europa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38450730">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think my enjoyment of this book partly came from having a miserable cold and needing to lose myself in something. It was loaned to me by my mom 2 or 3 years ago and it has never seemed that enticing so it has been sitting on my nightstand for some time.  However, I would give it a 3.5 if that were...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40100702">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another fascinating novel set among the 17th-century Dutch. This one is surprisingly fascinating because it's about an attempt to corner the market, on the Amsterdam mercantile Exchange (as that business form was just emerging) of a newly emerging product--coffee. A Portuguese Jew who has fled the I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66450910">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is vintage D. Liss. Our hero, Miguel, is in considerable financial distress after being a successful trader.  He has to live with his younger brother and endure his sister-in-law's hapless state.  All the while, he tries to dig his way out of debt, not really knowing who is for him and who is a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39335781">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The setting of this book was absolutely fascinating once I started reading: Amsterdam in the mid 17th century--a place and time that I had little knowledge about.   At this time they were the leaders of capitalism with exchange markets, stocks and betting on future prices of commodities. David Liss ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32704773">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was good, not great, and I'd recommend it to people who are interested in the history of Jews in Europe during the Inquisition and beyond, or if you're interested in getting a down and dirty look at the way capitalism operates. <br/><br/>The whole time I was reading this I was thinking of this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21843372">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because my husband really enjoys David Liss's writing and suggested I might like it.  I rarely read anything he does (because I am not interested in all the ins and outs of wars, how to be a spy or navy seal, or how differences in Teslas improve MRI imaging), but I thought this might be ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21792610">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I keep debating whether or not to give this three or four stars. I really enjoyed reading this and literally couldn't put it down. I haven't read during a meal (at least not a meal where I wasn't eating alone) in a while. I haven't read anything else by Liss (though I do have a copy of Conspiracy of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7777226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I’ve been a fan of Liss’ work for a while now; his two earlier novels, A Conspiracy of Paper and A Spectacle of Corruption, both set in early 18th-century London, are excellent.  This is a prequel of sorts; it is set in late 17th-century Amsterdam, and the main character, Portuguese Jew Miguel L...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4170672">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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