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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fun and fascinating read, not only on its own merits, but also as part of what I like to call the 'male romance' genre.  This, along with other manly titles like 'From Here to Eternity', make me giggle because they so closely parallel women's romance novels in the point-by-point adherence ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13820192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First of all this is probably the biggest book I have ever read. I found it in my usual place, the second hand bookshop. And fortunately it caught my attention. Although at the beginning I had doubts whether I made a mistake of buying it because it was a little slow paced. But soon the pace picked u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38512280">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing well played-out story. Adventure, love, mystery, treachery all entwined in a story unfolding in a foreign culture, to most in this hemisphere.  This novel has it all, well worth reading, possibly my favorite book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This fantastic book is exactly what historical fiction SHOULD be.  It's sad that most efforts fail to live up to this standard.  A rousing tale of a Dutch navigator who washes ashore in 17th Century Japan and proceeds to become caught up in the strife and war that would usher in the Tokugawa era, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1036601">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Damn, but this was good. Incredibly long--it was unputdownable and still took two months to read--but at no point did I find it boring or tedious. Even at 1,152 pages (this might be the longest book I've ever read), there was very little I found unnecessary. With my ADD, I'm usually all, &quot;--oka...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54602285">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is crack. Clavell weaves a beautiful fish-out-of-water tale into a feudal Japan so rife with fascinatingly immersive Japanese and Samurai culture / lore / psychology, the book is as unputdownable as it gets. Is it historically accurate? Not really, but you won't care anymore once it's got ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8323978">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[1200 page saga of English pilot who lands in 16th century Japan.  Lots of political manuveuring, ritual suicide, and violence.  GREAT fucking ending.<br/><br/>Bear in mind that it is truly fiction -- historically inaccurate but still a lot of fun.  I carried this book around on the subway for a mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/85768">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An intriguing story about an English ship captain who is stranded on the coast of Japan in the 1600's.  Though the story is fictional, the premise of the book--a longstanding war in Japan for the shogunship (highest warlord and most powerful political player)--is based on actual historical accounts....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56157239">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book made such an impression on me that it prompted me to research the real life version of the characters and the Tokugawa era. I read ther book first in the early 80's and when my daughter was born I named her Mariko.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a BIG book it takes a patience for it to get good i really likes it, has a good mix of some forbbiden romance and also some action here and there but most of it is plot and revenge and romance and his always current thinking of getting the black ship and sailing back to england but as he ad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76558990">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was recommended to me by a friend.  He siad that it was the best book that he ever read.  I wouldn't say that but it was pretty good.  It was interesting that the Japanese thought of the Europeans as savages and as far as the European's sanitary habits we would probaly agree.  On the other...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77602078">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you have time to read a hefty brick of a book, this is a great one to get lost in. I was fascinated by the clash-of-cultures story which takes in 1500's Japan and involves a shipwrecked English sailor, scheming Jesuit priests, and Japanese warlords vying for power. I didn't know much about the hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63425714">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this I plunged into my Clavell period. Some of his other novels match up to Shogun but none surpass it. It is loosely historical as some of the characters and places are real. There really was a British sea captain who served the Japanese military of this time.  It is a gripping saga o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52387525">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a great lover of literature and so far I'm having trouble with this book.  I'm 400 pages in and I feel like the story has barely started which is frustrating to say the least.  It's also probably true since I still have 700 pages to go.  Also I feel like maybe there are some racist undertones th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75773912">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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