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  <title><![CDATA[The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence (Night's Dawn Trilogy)]]></title>
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  <default_description>Curse of the Blessed.
Joshua Calvert, owner of the Lady Macbeth, is cursed by his good luck; Ione Saldana, Lord of Ruin, is cursed by her royal birth; colonists trapped on the stinking jungle world Lalonde are cursed by their faith; entire planets are simply cursed...
And a data chip from a long-extinct alien race, the Laymil, holds the only clue to what the phenomenon is - a force unknown to science, an invasion unknown to history. The Laymil called it &quot;the Reality Dysfunction.&quot;
But they might have called it Hell...</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Reality Dysfunction Part 1: Emergence (Night's Dawn Trilogy)</original_title>
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  <average_rating><![CDATA[4.02]]></average_rating>
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        <author id="25375">
      <name><![CDATA[Peter F. Hamilton]]></name>
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    <review id="8990952">
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    <name><![CDATA[Servius Sextus Heiner ]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 19 21:00:44 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 12 00:14:01 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 17 17:53:49 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I actually rate this book as a 3 ½ stars. I am a big fan of Hamilton’s. But I must admit that starting his books can be tedious. They read like a technical manual to start off with. Lots of 7000 kilometers this, and red dwarf that… This book was no different. It was like reading a Carl Sagan Co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8990952">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11180677">
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    <name><![CDATA[Jacob]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Dec 28 16:01:12 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Dec 28 16:23:41 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Knight's Dawn trilogy is by far my favorite series of any genre.  From the opening scene to the last page, Hamilton keeps the reader in a state of frenzied excitement as the climax steadily builds across six paperbacks.<br/><br/>Perhaps the best part for sci-fi fans is that he knows how to sou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11180677">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="26193088">
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    <name><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[ceux qui peuvent lire 3000 pages sans s'endormir.]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Mon Jul 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 03 05:01:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 09 12:57:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Bon, après avoir lu tout un tas de bouquins, je peux l'affirmer sans l'ombre d'un doute, c'est la mise en place la plus longue que j'aie jamais lu.<br/>Il y a dans le tas quelques idées très intéressantes, comme les édenistes, et quelques scènes de sexe habilement placées et joliment décrot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26193088">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="26193080">
    <user id="1156136">
    <name><![CDATA[Nicolas]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hellemmes, France]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Des lecteurs très patients]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jul 03 05:01:20 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Aug 09 13:08:26 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Je l'avais déja lu en juin 2003, et j'en avais dit bien des choses :<br/><blockquote><br/>Dans ce second tome, on continue à suivre les déambulations de nos héros dans un unvers de plus en plus déjanté, mais toujours aussi <br/>rigoureusement déjanté. <br/><br/>Contrairement à bien des ouvrages, o...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26193080">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="520704">
    <user id="44544">
    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sun Apr 01 11:13:47 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Apr 03 16:59:24 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[[I've read the entire series but this will be my only review.]<br/><br/>I would not recommended this book for younger readers due to disturbing levels of violence and horror imagery.  But, if you're an adult fan of horror and science fiction this book is probably your &quot;cup of meat.&quot;<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/520704">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="58219931">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ruhegeist]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jun 02 15:05:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jun 02 15:20:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found the short sections in each chapter far too easy stopping points which made the book slow going.  Each chapter itself was too short.  Each plot thread not developed enough to keep my full interest.  The characters were interesting and the plot compelling but after getting a whiff of where it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58219931">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58219931]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="15649878">
    <user id="278515">
    <name><![CDATA[Stefanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Alexandria, VA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of early Piers Anthony science fiction]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Eric]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Feb 17 16:29:05 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 09 08:42:23 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[as other reviewers have offered, it takes easily the first 100+ pages to get into the story, which is very dense, and it's hard to see where everything is going. part of it may be the fact that i read it in four to ten-page bits, leaving me adrift when i should not necessarily have been in a story t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15649878">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="50325864">
    <user id="2103905">
    <name><![CDATA[Bruno]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Recife, 30, Brazil]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 24 14:42:13 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 15 20:44:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked it, but... This is not really my favourite kind of sci-fi writing. The book is apparently well constructed, and when I say that I mean we cant really know where the story is going, so no conclusions yet. I couldn't grasp what is the main plot after all, as so little is revealed throughout th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50325864">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="31865581">
    <user id="1342752">
    <name><![CDATA[Dave]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Austin, TX]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 09 18:02:56 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 02 18:39:09 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Oct 09 18:02:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this whole trilogy twice before. With all the other volumes it comes out to over 3000 pages to get lost in. Let's see, for 12 year old girls there is a telepathic, sentient huge space-going... pony. For young boys there is the best Star Captain in the universe. Space Battles, Space Vampire...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31865581">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="16583533">
    <user id="545336">
    <name><![CDATA[Mike]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Lunas, NM]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[SciFi combat, hard science fans]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 27 23:07:22 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 29 13:50:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Don't you just love the feeling when a book reaches out and grabs you...you can't put it down and you don't want to finish it too quickly.  That is this book. Some really interesting scifi ideas such as biological engineering in many areas, how planet colonization might really occur, strange but bel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16583533">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16583533]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="41084392">
    <user id="2943765">
    <name><![CDATA[Donald]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portland, OR]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Tue Dec 30 18:16:58 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Dec 28 08:57:10 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Dec 30 18:16:58 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great Sci Fi.  Only problem is that this is only 1/2 of the book.  It literally ends in the middle of the story.  I'm waiting for the second half from Amazon now ...]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="33965155">
    <user id="1569146">
    <name><![CDATA[Joshua]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <date_added>Sat Sep 27 08:57:43 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 27 08:57:56 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is space opera on an epic scale, with dozens of characters, hundreds of planets, universe-spanning plots, and settings that range from wooden huts and muddy villages to sentient starships and newborn suns. It's also the first part of a two-volume book that is itself the first book of a series. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33965155">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33965155]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="10722785">
    <user id="177753">
    <name><![CDATA[Lew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Saint Louis, MO]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 09:50:15 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Dec 19 18:53:44 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 01 09:46:53 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book and look forward to reading the other books in the series.  This is the first book by Peter F. Hamilton and will not be the last.  A great sweeping Space Epic.  The only compliant is that is slow to start.  I actually reread the first two chapters after I finished the book...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10722785">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10722785]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="20852368">
    <user id="889975">
    <name><![CDATA[Richard]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Chico, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 1999</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Apr 23 22:21:04 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Apr 23 22:21:17 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sci-fi space zombies have never been done as well as. Sheer amazingness. The entire philosophical concept of the after life and souls as handled in the The Night's Dawn trilogy is worth the entry ticket alone, nevermind the brilliance hard sci-fi and action and hot chicks and zombies and...<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20852368">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="45142946">
    <user id="47901">
    <name><![CDATA[Andrew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>2</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Feb 02 09:22:24 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Feb 02 09:25:09 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got about halfway through, and I had to let it go. The plot, while engaging and even a little challenging to follow at first, settled into a very predictable track, and the characters are not compelling enough to keep me reading now that I have figured out what is going to happen. Which is a shame...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45142946">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="10870453">
    <user id="74271">
    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[San Francisco, CA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74271-dan]]></url>
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Peter Hamilton Fans and sprawling sf fans]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 22 09:44:56 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Dec 22 09:49:02 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The premise is that of a horror novel--What if the dead come back to life by taking over the bodies of the currently living?<br/><br/>This is the first novel in a multi-volume epic. Hamilton creates an enormous far future universe. The shear amount of imagination on display is astounding. Lots of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10870453">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10870453]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="2941764">
    <user id="31186">
    <name><![CDATA[jackie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Santa Monica, CA]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of a six book series involving the future of the human race, the destruction of our race and about 57 main character.  So yeah, it's a little hard to follow until you get into it (which may not even happen in the first book!) but worth it for the space-travel set.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just what I needed - a good sci fi fix.]]></body>
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