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    <body><![CDATA[If this book had been a movie, I can imagine that the pitch session would have gone like this: <br/><br/>Writer: Think: <em>Great Expectations</em> meets <em>Germinal</em>!  <br/>Producer: Germa-what? <br/>Writer: It's this French novel by … <br/>Producer: Nobody's gonna wanna watch a French story. What are yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66373612">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[[grabbed from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue69/books.html">this site</a>][return][return]This creation owes much to Charles Dickens. It also owes much to Mervyn Peake at least in a Gormenghastish way, but the writing is all McLeod. This is a sumptuous book, with a wonderful use of language. If you want a whiz-bang adventure story, well, sorry. Thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44576178">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[   I am so very ambivalent on this book. This is going to be a two-faced review, I think.<br/>   Husband found this book for me at the bookstore and we got it based on the back of the book. I loves me some steampunk and this looked like it would fit the bill. I also loves me some Dickens and it tur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68226813">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The blurbs compare this sprawling steam-punk-esque neo-Victorian novel to Dickens; I'd consider that unfair, but he is clearly the author's model. What Light Ages lacks in satirical with, it makes up for in strong, lyrical writing and interesting ideas. A magical metaphor for our oil-dependent age, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71876191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Finishing this book was a bit like being hit by a truck. In the good way. <em>The Light Ages</em> has almost everything I love in a sf/f novel: a plot that drops me into the world and leaves it up to me to figure out what's going on; a mystery revealed piece by piece; social issues I didn't feel hit over the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66408777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Others are reviewing this book as Dickensian. I find that wrong as Dickens writing style is different to me. I get caught up in Dickens with the minutiae of characterization. He will go on for pages about one minor character who are all linked, like Paul Haggis's movie Crash, at the end.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43788257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While comparisons to Pullman and Mieville are not off entirely off base for Macleod’s work of industrial fantasy it is a much slower paced  but if you let it take its time it weaves a subtler and deadlier spell like its obvious model, Keith Robert’s Pavane(did Pullman also use this for a model?)...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35468922">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While I'm usually drawn to the grand sweeping Victorian-era settings of novels like this (a plus when you combine them with some type of magic or fantasy elements), this one just didn't pull me in completely. I like big chunky books, but this one seemed too chunky -- there was just too much writing ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43582417">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Beautiful poetic language drew me into England of the industrial ages. But this England was fueled by &quot;aether&quot; -a magical stubstance that is mined, but its &quot;tailings&quot; or just the aether itself exact a terrible cost. It fuels the age and will bring the age to its knees. Society is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31774911">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hadn't read fantasy for many years so I found it a bit difficult to get interested.  After the first 1/3rd of the book I understood the setting well enough to become interested but still found it to be long-winded and tiring.  He does create some memorable and creepy scenes.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting steam-punk fantasy set in an alternate reality industrial age England where magic takes the place of coal (the fuel for industry).   I suppose if you were English and/or a fan of industrial age history and/or a fan of Dickens-era literature, this would appeal to you.  <br/><br/>As f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39832018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tour de force - briliant ideas of  a magical aether written in aetheral prose.  I really loved it.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is my dive into steampunk lit. I'm very impressed so far. I finished the book. Definitely on my top fifty. Great and creative plot. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried--I got to Page 140 and just couldn't pick it up again.  (snore)]]></body>
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