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    <body><![CDATA[The main character is an ass and unfortuntely, he fails to be an ass in that smart-aleck, secretly kind-hearted way that some anti-heros manage to pull off so well.  Bottom line:  a book about an ass.  Thank you Peter David.  Because I don't have to deal with enough asses on a day-to-day basis.  *ro...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32882871">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read to page 94 of this book (out of 647).  I didn't like the writing style.  It seemed incohesive and jumbled.  There were a lot of over-used cliches.  And the main character seemed to have &quot;I was there&quot; first-hand knowledge of events that happened before he was even born.  Please.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A recommendation from danniangel &amp; mousme, as well as Fenris from the SDMB/UB, I picked up a used copy of Sir Apropos of Nothing a month or so ago &amp; started reading it over the weekend.<br/><br/>The book starts in media res, with Apropos caught cuckolding a knight; as a squire, this is definitely ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5701172">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is terribly written. You know the old adage &quot;show, don't tell?&quot; Apparently nobody told Peter David. The book reads as if he had no idea where the story was going and just made things up as he went along, things work out too conveniently and the characters are not very likeable. I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61494206">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ Apropos' mother has told him since he was a lad that he was destined for great things, however, he was always skeptical, not fitting the hero type with his bad leg and the propensity for his own self-preservation. He does seem to have a knack for getting himself into and out of bad situations with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17144442">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Whaddya do if you realize you're not the hero of your own story? How lame could you feel? How impotent and pointless would your existence seem? I didn't expect this theme or anything as...erm...profound to be found in this book (read the back cover and you'll understand). I was looking forward to so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2615840">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p> They were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they had no idea that the result of that twilight brutality was going to come after them years later looking to settle the score... <p> The &quot;result's&quot; unlikely name is Apropos: A rogue, a rascal, a scoundrel, a cheat...and those are his good points. Lame of leg but fast of wit, the only reason Apropos doesn't consider chivalry dead is because he's not yet through with it. Herewith, Sir Apropos of Nothing -- his story in the words of the knave himself. <p> Apropos, all too aware of his violent and unseemly beginnings, travels to the court of the good King Runcible, with three goals in mind: to find his father, seek retribution, and line his own pockets. However, Apropos carries the most troublesome burden a would-be harbinger of chaos can bear: He may well be a hero foretold, a young man of destiny. It is not a notion that Apropos finds palatable, having very low regard for such notions as honor, selflessness, or risking one's neck. Yet when Apropos finds himself assigned as squire to the most senile knight in the court -- Sir Umbrage of the Flaming Nether Regions, whose squires tend to have a rather short life span -- Apropos is forced to rise to the occasion lest he be dragged under -- permanently. <p> His difficulties are compounded when a routine mission to escort the King's daughter home after a long absence goes horribly awry. Suddenly Apropos finds himself saddled with trying to survive while dealing with a berserk phoenix, murderous unicorns, mutated harpies, homicidal warrior kings, and -- most problematic of all -- a princess who may or may not be a psychotic arsonist. <p> Featuring a hero cut from cloth similar to that of such entertaining blackguards as Blackadder and Flashman, Sir Apropos of Nothing is a skewed version of classic, mythic adventure that is by turns hilarious and frightening, slapstick and serious, and filled with drop-dead laughs and drop-dead people.</p></p></p></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Perhaps it's because I started this right after finishing The Martian Chronicles, but this is not starting well with me.<br/><br/>Also, I'm not as fond of puns as the author seems to be.  I say this after finishing the first chapter.<br/><br/>ETA: I gave it three chapters, and that was plenty.  ...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay, I admit I read it because of the punning title.  That and I had nothing to do one evening and there it was.  Goofy fun with some seriousness thrown in.  I kind of liked Apropos when the comedy moved along, but every time it got serious I remembered what a jerk he is.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I expected to like this a lot more.  Maybe my expectations were too high.  There were some nice puns and humor but it just seemed much too violent and bitter for the type of humor/fantasy/adventure that it seemed to be.]]></body>
    
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