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  <title><![CDATA[The Reluctant Swordsman (Seventh Sword, #1)]]></title>
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  <default_description>The last thing Wallie Smith remembered was a fog of hospitals, grim-faced doctors, and pain. So when he woke in the body of a barbarian swordsman, attended by a beautiful slave girl and a wizened old priest nattering about the Goddess, he assumed it was a fever-dream.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But the World could not be dismissed so lightly. A naked little demigod called Shorty explained that the Goddess needed a swordsman. If Wallie undertook the job and succeeded, all that World had to offer would be his. If he refused, the results would be...unpleasant.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Wallie was not convinced, but Shorty was exquisitely persuasive. Soon Wallie found himself bearing a magnificent sword, with no idea how to use it -- and the servants of the Goddess were out to stop him.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">12</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">4</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1988</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Reluctant Swordsman (Seventh Sword, #1)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dave Duncan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Genre: High Fantasy<br/><br/>A very fast-paced tale of a modern fellow (Wallie Smith) who's brain/mind/soul is transplanted into a sword-swinging hero's body due to a meddlesome Goddess. The world he's cast into is lush, succeeding in being both foriegn and envoking the &quot;Age of Legends&quot; ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18837197">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I consumed the opening pages of this fine story, my miserable excuse for a brain could not but help attempt linking this work to <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/674289.The_Reluctant_Sorcerer" title="The Reluctant Sorcerer by Simon Hawke">The Reluctant Sorcerer</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/103168.Simon_Hawke" title="Simon Hawke">Simon Hawke</a>.  Hawke also wrote a trilogy featuring someone from our world forced to adapt in an alternate, medieval one; and its no coincidenc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42724672">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Few authors in the fantasy genre are capable of coming up with as many unique magic concepts as Dave Duncan and his very best work is the Seventh Sword Trilogy.  Book 1 is The Reluctant Swordsman and I remain as blown away today as I was when I first read it 10 years ago.<br/><br/>The Reluctant Sw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27676699">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38132879">
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Duncan creates a compelling and exciting world and environment.  His characters are real and believable.  The hero, Wallie/Shonsu, has just the right elements of self-doubt, internal struggles, and irrationality to make him real. These are definite page-turners for me!]]></body>
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    <review id="46822855">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this story and series.  It was very original, a bit Thomas covenant like, but still pretty original and very well written.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46822855]]></url>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book]]></body>
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    <review id="44687703">
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    <body><![CDATA[The Seventh Sword]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44687703]]></url>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorites. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Review located <u><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://ubiquitous-absence.blogspot.com/2009/10/fine-blend.html">HERE</a></u>.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very imaginative series. Multilayered story. Not quite as good as the &quot;Kings Blades&quot; series but was entertaining.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The weird title threw me, but in the end I liked this book and the entire series.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this author was recommended, not sure what books]]></body>
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