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    <body><![CDATA[Every once in a while, an author whom you know has talent is bound to fail you.  Card was my favorite author as a teen and I devoured nearly all of his (many) works.  Chances are, if you are even reading this, you've already read Ender's Game and/or others of the Ender series.  Stick with them.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45100438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I had no idea what to expect from this book. I hadn't read anything about it, but I saw it was from Card and so I listened to it on our way to and from California. I didn't even read the jacket cover since it was an audio book I downloaded.  I won't say too much other than I really enjoyed it. I thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33322385">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a cool book! Card combines two really different ideas here, modern day Los Angeles and Shakespearian mythology, and does it in such a way that is smart and entertaining. And though it sounds strange to say it, it is also a very believable story.  ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Orson Scott Card has the distinction of having swept both the Hugo and Nebula awards in two consecutive years with his amazing novels <em>Ender's Game</em> and <em>Speaker for the Dead</em>. For a body of work that ranges from science fiction to nonfiction to plays, Card has been recognized as an author who provides vivid, colorful glimpses between the world we know and worlds we can only imagine.<br/><br/>In a peaceful, prosperous African-American neighborhood in Los Angeles, Mack Street is a mystery child who has somehow found a home. Discovered abandoned in an overgrown park, raised by a blunt-speaking single woman, Mack comes and goes from family to family -- a boy who is at once surrounded by boisterous characters and deeply alone. But while Mack senses that he is different from most, and knows that he has strange powers, he cannot possibly understand how unusual he is until the day he sees, in a thin slice of space, a narrow house. Beyond it is a backyard -- and an entryway into an extraordinary world stretching off into an exotic distance of geography, history, and magic.<br/><br/>Passing through the skinny house that no one else can see, Mack is plunged into a realm where time and reality are skewed, a place where what Mack does and sees seem to have strange affects in the &quot;real world&quot;; of concrete, cars, commerce, and conflict. Growing into a tall, powerful young man, pursuing a forbidden relationship, and using Shakespeare's Midsummer's Night Dream as a guide into the vast, timeless fantasy world, Mack becomes a player in an epic drama. Understanding this drama is Mack's challenge. His reward, if he can survive the trip, is discovering not only who he really is . . . but why he exists.<br/><br/>Both a novel of constantly surprising entertainment and a tale of breathtaking literary power, <em>Magic Street</em> is a masterwork from a supremely gifted, utterly original American writer -- a novel that uses realism and fantasy to delight, challenge, and satisfy on the most profound levels.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;What I learned from this book&quot;: Orson Scott Card should stick to science fiction, at which he does a consistently good job, and avoid the tricky genre of modern-day fantasy. This reads like a really, really bad Neil Gaiman wannabe, with inconsistent (not intentionally conflicted, just slo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25758206">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A modern look at Oberon, Puck, Titania through the eyes of a young black man in Los Angeles.  I really enjoyed this book.  Card's heroes are compelling, smart and heart-strong and this mix of the old world fairies in modern life is a new one, not an old story retold.  I am not sure if I should put t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50524877">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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