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  <title><![CDATA[The Warrior's Apprentice (Vorkosigan Saga, #3)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Between the seemingly impossible tasks of living up to his warrior-father's legend and surmounting his own physical limitations, Miles Vorkosigan faces some truly daunting challenges.  &lt;P&gt;Shortly after his arrival on Beta Colony, Miles unexpectedly finds himself the owner of an obsolete freighter and in more debt than he ever thought possible. Propelled by his manic &quot;forward momentum,&quot; the ever-inventive Miles creates a new identity for himself as the commander of his own mercenary fleet to obtain a lucrative cargo; a shipment of weapons destined for a dangerous warzone.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1986</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Lois McMaster Bujold]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Warrior's Apprentice introduced me to a memorable character--Miles Vorkosigan.  His adventures are so fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, one-thing-after-another!  It's great fun.  The series starring Miles has been around for a couple of decades, and I can see why it is so popular.  <br/><br/>In t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78562650">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>3.75 stars</strong> <br/><br/>I warped through this novel in record time, finishing almost before I realized it, because it was so much fun to read.  I returned to the world of Barrayar and the Vor to pickup Miles at age seventeen.  And how much trouble can one 17 year old &quot;cripple&quot; get into in s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68315285">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41235388">
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 18:29:08 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Heaps of fun after the first 80 pages of Miles playing Whiny McEmo. Honestly, Miles, you're a kind person, bright as a button and smart as a  whip, a charismatic and inspirational leader with a powerful and relatively wealthy family who love you. Your readily compensated disability, in this context,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41235388">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68950270">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 26 08:30:19 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 27 07:16:07 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Usually books that tend to have a focus on military action are not for me - but damn, I like this Space Opera!<br/>Everything starts, when he tries to search for Elena's mother on a trip that's masked as a normal vacation - whoop, sweet-tempered Miles accidentally picks up a deserter and an old far...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68950270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68050320">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miles Vorkosigan (going by Miles Naismith during most of this story) is an adolescent of long noble lineage, short stature, and a bone disease.  He has galloping hormones that are outstripped by his ingenuity, capacity for risk, and sheer inventiveness.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16094.Lois_McMaster_Bujold" title="Lois McMaster Bujold">Lois McMaster Bujold</a> has written a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68050320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="66311066">
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Aug 19 08:17:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miles Vorkosigan was born into a culture that has only just barely come to accept his birth defects and consider him a viable human being.  Twenty years earlier he probably would have been aborted or not survived his birth.  But due to his mixed parentage (his mother's culture is more forgiving) and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66311066">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56184338">
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    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Jun 04 13:52:28 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not completely sure how I managed to avoid the Vorkosigan series of books for so long, but I finally succumbed to the hype and picked up this one. Technically speaking, it's the third in Bujold's series, after <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61903.Shards_of_Honour_Vorkosigan_" title="Shards of Honour (Vorkosigan) by Lois McMaster Bujold">Shards of Honor</a> and <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61905.Barrayar_Vorkosigan_" title="Barrayar (Vorkosigan) by Lois McMaster Bujold">Barrayar</a> (also available in one volume as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61900.Cordelia_s_Honor_Vorkosigan_" title="Cordelia's Honor (Vorkosigan) by Lois McMaster Bujold">Cordelia's Honor</a>), but i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56184338">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68926019">
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    <name><![CDATA[Frank]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Aug 26 03:55:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 26 04:34:08 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Miles VorKosigan fails to get into miltary school due to failing the physical test because ofhis brittle bones.  He visits his maternal grandmother on Beta colony and proceeds to get himself in to trouble.<br/>The book is all about the adventures he gets into from deciding to buy a cargo ship to sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68926019">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="64786577">
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jul 24 09:11:07 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 25 00:26:41 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dans ce troisième tome, papa et maman laissent enfin la place à leur difforme, mais génial, rejeton pour sa première aventure en solo.<br/>Aventure qui commence plutôt mal avec deux jambes brisées (entraînant avec elles les espoirs du jeune Miles de servir l'empire). De dépit, il va aller s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64786577">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41249193">
    <user id="844556">
    <name><![CDATA[Yarrow]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Albuquerque, NM]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 20:30:19 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Feb 03 09:02:00 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[so far, the plot makes very little sense, but i like Elena.  it's entertaining, and her fantasy comes highly reccomended (by Martha Wells, no less, whose work i am crazy in love with), so i'll probably give the author another try.  particularly if she pulls this one together; i'm only about a third ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41249193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44615789">
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    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[OMG MILES. I can't help but love Miles Vorkosigan, even if I want to sit on him sometimes. I can't possibly say enough about the Vorkosigan series, and I am constantly trying to make my friends and family read it. The characterization is brilliant, and the action is spectacular yet accessible to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44615789">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55205102">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kate]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Diego, CA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[I do not normally like space opera, but Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series rises above space opera and debuts a new kind of hero.  There has never been anyone in life or fiction quite like Miles Vorkosigan, and I have followed him faithfully through many books.  This is his debut: a hyperactiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55205102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29004840">
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 01 16:09:28 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Karen asked me why I haven't been writing any reviews recently; surely I haven't stopped reading? No, the reason is that I couldn't figure out what I should say about the series of SciFi books and short stories by Lois McMaster Bujold called the Vorkosigan saga that I stumbled upon. I even reread th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29004840">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19801808">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Miles Vorkosigan. I can't say it enough. It is such a pity I can't find a real-life version of him, because I'd marry him in a heartbeat. Lois McMaster Bujold has a real gift for creating fascinating, deeply flawed characters that are so breathtakingly *human* it's hard to believe they don't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19801808">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="19713586">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my favorite series, from another favorite author (IMO her sci-fi is stronger than her fantasy, but that's just my opinion).  A friend introduced me to Miles Vorkosigan with this book, and it's been a delightful acquaintance.  Miles is an honorable romantic at heart, but he often faces problem...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19713586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The genre is technically science fiction, but when I met SF author Charles Sheffield about ten years ago (he was a guest speaker at a literary seminar), he dismissed the Vorkosigan saga as &quot;Regency romance in space.&quot;  And there's a smidgeon of truth in that assessment.  But in some ways th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16869433">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first exploratory journey into the world of Miles Vorkosigan was filled with tears--laughter-induced, to be sure, but they still blurred my vision.<br/>Miles is quite the original hero, not tall, handsome, or successful (at least in the beginning). The victim of a soltoxin attack on his parents ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16360146">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Taken as a whole, the Miles Vorkosigan series is simply outstanding.  The series is built around the character of Miles.  And through them we learn about his world, the forces that created him, how he thinks and acts and the people who love, hate, respect and revere him.<br/><br/>Taken as parts of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9267564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant.  I felt twelve again!  A fine cross between Ender's Game and the Stainless Steel Rat.  Technically a heist space opera in a light farce sauce:  there are a few too many author's devices and plot conveniences to make this believable.  Still, it's just so much fun.  Barryar, for example, is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47554820">more...</a>]]></body>
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