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    <body><![CDATA[The one where Chris is a novice in a 21st-century Cuban monastery until suddenly, in the night, he's thrown back to the age of piracy. The book takes the form of a memoir which a present-day Chris, now a priest, is writing as he plans how he can get back to the past and to the woman he loves.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17166506">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gene Wolfe is my favorite sci-fi author, and this book has his distinctive voice.  All of his protaganists are tall, handsome (but don't think they are handsome), skilled (but don't think they are skilled), successful in strange ways, and they all follow a rather unexpected &amp; tortuous path through l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10762334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pirate Freedom revolves around the memoirs of a present day priest about his life as an adolescent acolyte in a modern day monastery who through some never quite explained fluke is thrown back into the golden age.  Soon the protagonist is put into many situations where he experiences many situations...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39142916">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Pirate Freedom&quot; was remarkably good; much like virtually everything Wolfe writes.  Based on his past work Wolfe has set a staggeringly high bar for himself; I now expect anything written by him to be insightful, ingenious, surprising, delightfully cryptic, staggeringly well researched, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9776214">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gene Wolfe is getting old. I hate to acknowledge it, but it is so. This book uses what is becoming an over-used plot, the same main character (basically) as The Wizard, The Knight and Soldier of Sidon, and puts him in the Golden Age of Piracy. Despite the opposing views of a priest and a pirate, he ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16305352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gene Wolfe is one of my favorite authors.  He is a genius of narrative structure.  True to form, this book is a bit of mind-bender, time-warp, wrapped in a very authentic historical pirate story.  As a fan of pirate history, I've never read anything that's made the history seem so real.  I recommend...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48116081">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had all of the familiar Gene Wolfe elements that the other reviewers have mentioned, except my favorite--the crazy, mind-blowing stuff that could only come from this man's bizarre imagination. Without that, all we have here is a fast-moving, somewhat pedantic narrative full of lots of mund...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43712647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I'd rate this a four if it wasn't Gene Wolfe. It's not his best book . However Wolfe's middle of the road effort is better than most authors' best work. Here we have the expected Urth style anti hero enmeshed in a rather unique situation. However the characterizations and plot twists are mor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11104725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure why this was marketed as science fiction.  There's a flimsy time-travel framing story, but the book is mostly a pirate memoir, and not a very interesting one.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like all Gene Wolfe books, the best you can ever say is that you have a vague idea of everything that is going on.  This is one of his simpler books, and there is much enjoyment to be had from just reading it.  There is, however, much more from trying to figure out what is really going on.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is intelligent sci-fi, although there really is only a small bit of sci-fi - accidental time-traveling. It's unusual in that the narrator who is telling the story in more or less current times is a priest, but through some bad luck becomes a pirate in another time. Most of the story is about hi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36651555">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a great blend of swashbuckling pirates, and time travel. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read from 1/31 to 2/2.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wolfe packs his tale with so much incident that to summarize Captain Chris's exploits would take nearly as long as the novel itself. Suffice it to say that every possible trope of the pirate tale is expertly deployed. We have stowaways, maroonings, storms at sea, duels with guns and swords, noble vi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6536784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am a great fan of Wolfe and find his tales always interesting.  He is truly a fine writer.  <br/><br/>There's such depth in these books. This one, like much of his most recent fiction, give me the feeling that I'm just on the cusp of understanding something momentous, but it slips away at the la...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9100148">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Gene Wolf says to himself, &quot;Self, I can write about <em>pirates</em>, properly researched and everything; why write anything else?&quot;<br/><br/>Coming from an author legendary for the subtlety of his works, this book is a suspiciously straightforward story about a man mysteriously transported to the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22539218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An oddball book from Wolfe with a time-travel element that's never quite explained.  The adventures of a young monastic student in Cuba who unexpectedly finds himself in the 18th century and, perhaps even more unexpectedly, finds himself a pirate.  Not even close to Wolfe's best work, but an enterta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26680193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A competent and entertaining story, with the familiar partial view of a story, from a narrator who is not obviously unreliable, but admits his reluctance to fill in all the details.  A youth slips far back in time and surprisingly quickly becomes a ruthless pirate, trying hopelessly to balance his r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55371938">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one I've just finished.  The others Gene Wolfe books were a while ago.  He is one of the best writers I have ever read.  This is one of his best and most accessible.  More adult than YA, but sexual content is private.  The writer's voice is amazing.  Hard to explain.]]></body>
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