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  <title><![CDATA[Glory Road]]></title>
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  <default_description>A Vietnam veteran idling away his time on the Isle du Levant, Oscars eye is caught by the most beautiful woman he has ever seen, sleekly muscled and with regal bearing. When she offers him a job with great adventure and great risk he blindly accepts, little realizing just what an incredible trek he has let himself in for: a journey through some of the twenty universes where Star is Empress, on a quest to retrieve the stolen Great Egg. The grandest pure adventure from the genres master storyteller, Glory Road is a masterpiece of escapist entertainment with a typically Heinleinian sting in its tail.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1963</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Glory Road</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Robert A. Heinlein]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I picked up my copy of &quot;Glory Road,&quot; I was met with a cover depicting a buxom woman in tights, a dwarf and a guy dressed like Robin Hood battling what appears to be a fire-breathing dinosaur and a blurb proclaiming this one of the &quot;best SF novels of all-time.&quot;  And I thought...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39912917">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review of Glory Road -- This is science fiction from one of the early masters of the genre. I picked it up once when I had a coupon from Borders largely on the recommendation of a blogger I liked, who cites it as his favorite book of all time and, in fact, has taken many elements of his on-line pers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8565229">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12281860">
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  <date_updated>Fri Jan 11 15:54:14 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this on the recommendation of my Father, who talked it up pretty big.  It's a pretty good adventure based upon an attractive - if common - premise: an anonymous man finds out he's the chosen one and receives an array of cool weapons and takes on a bunch of enemies and wins the girl.  The last...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12281860">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5647753">
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 12 15:55:36 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[great adventure, generally just a fun fantasy/sci-fi novel. the only real drawback (other than his seemingly bizarre obsession with spanking women) is that for the last 60 pages or so, it seems like heinlein just gave up. the adventure is over, and the hero spends the last pages whining about wantin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5647753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="4293646">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 08 21:26:15 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 08 21:26:23 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Of course I had heard of Heinlein, but this was my first exposure to one of his books. It occasionally reads like bad adolescent fantasy, but I think there's something worth reading here. It's a somewhat silly book, and I kept picturing Heidi Klum as Star, which was distracting. It's also a very sho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4293646">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17891152">
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;willing to travel, no family or emotional ties, indomitably courageous and handsome of face and figure. Permanent employment, very high pay, glorious adventure, great danger&quot;<br/><br/>Doesn't every guy wish they had answered a classified like that?]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[After I Will Fear No Evil I was hesitant to pick up another Heinlein book, but we have so many on our shelves.  Heinlein spends too much time emphasizing Star’s inherent femininity, making her cloying and obnoxiously obsequious.  However there’s never a point where she seems to need saving and s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44273997">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are a fan of Heinlein, this is one of his most fun, and a great introduction to his writing style.  It has that &quot;never know whats coming&quot; feel in a lot of parts, and one of the greatest twists in ANY book i have ever read.]]></body>
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    <review id="38364631">
    <user id="1677340">
    <name><![CDATA[Marc]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like most Heinlein's but I don't like fantasy.. I thought this might be good but it didn't do that much for me.    Its about a guy (Oscar) that meets a strange woman and is taken by her and pulled through a series of worlds.  The woman, Star, had selected him as her hero after countless years of r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38364631">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23092549">
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating and infuriating in equal measures. I was wrapped up in the adventure even as I was arguing in my head with the opinions of the highly opinionated protagonist. <br/><br/>Possibly my favorite Heinlein.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="1762885">
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    <name><![CDATA[Isiscaughey]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[The only Heinlein fantasy novel is as excellent as anything he writes.  As per usual, he takes many of the cliches of the genre and turns them on their head.  Very true, funny, and accurate as hell.]]></body>
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    <review id="9004113">
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    <name><![CDATA[Linda]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 12 09:13:21 -0800 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Many people miss the point of this book's ending. Heinlein didn't run out of steam - he wanted to explore the idea of what happens after the happy ending.]]></body>
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    <review id="5852718">
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    <body><![CDATA[it was pretty good. i liked how all the stories come together to one conclusion.]]></body>
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    <review id="364693">
    <user id="34033">
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    <body><![CDATA[Good ole fashioned adventure for kids of any age.]]></body>
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    <review id="47538463">
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    <name><![CDATA[John]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to reread books by favorite authors, and I read all of Heinlein's stuff when I was a teenager.<br/>Most of them are hard to find now, so when I see them in a used bookstore I usually snap them up.<br/>For the most part, this one is justly forgotten. I'd describe what it's about, but it does...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47538463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Apparently, this is one of Heinlein's few attempts at fantasy. He does it quite well and it is notable for two things. Firstly, Heinlein cannot resist the need to rationalise the miraculous. Magic arises from a more advanced mathematics and science than our own. Secondly, we see this fantastic world...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52892044">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I finished &quot;Glory Road&quot; I put the book down with mixed feelings.<br/><br/>Short plot description: after returning from an unnamed war our Hero meets a Beautiful Woman who needs Help to recover a Stolen Item. Thus begins a Quest which spans several worlds and universes...<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29069820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(written 12/02)<br/><br/>This book started out strange and got stranger.  My Dad loves it, says it's Heinlein's fantasy work.  The story is interesting enough, leaving you reading to the end before things are explained.  But I can't get over Heinlein's male-centric style where females are just there...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12840694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel bleeds into fantasy, unusual for Heinlein, even though he keeps star gates around for shuffling our hero off to other worlds.  By my taste, once you're wielding a sword and taking on dragons, science fiction is a stretch.  :-)<br/><br/>That said, this novel was immensely fun.  Though no...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68635033">more...</a>]]></body>
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