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  <title><![CDATA[The Lords of Discipline]]></title>
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  <default_description>A novel you will never forget...&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; This&#160;&#160;powerful and breathtaking novel is the story of&#160;&#160;four cadets who have become bloodbrothers. Together&#160;&#160;they will encounter the hell of hazing and the&#160;&#160;rabid, raunchy and dangerously secretive atmosphere&#160;&#160;of an arrogant and proud military institute. They&#160;&#160;will experience the violence. The passion. The&#160;&#160;rage. The friendship. The loyalty. The betrayal.&#160;&#160;Together, they will brace themselves for the brutal&#160;&#160;transition to manhood... and one will not&#160;&#160;survive.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; With all the dramatic brilliance he&#160;&#160;brought to &lt;i&gt;The Great Santini&lt;/i&gt;, Pat&#160;&#160;Conroy sweeps you into the turbulent world of&#160;&#160;these four friends -- and draws you deep into the&#160;&#160;heart of his rebellious hero, Will McLean, an&#160;&#160;outsider forging his personal code of honor, who falls&#160;&#160;in love with a whimsical beauty... and who&#160;&#160;undergoes a transition more remarkable then he ever&#160;&#160;imagined possible.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>The Lords of Discipline</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Pat Conroy]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[those who want a glimpse into what goes on at a military college. ]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic book!  Pat Conroy does an excellent job conveying the life of a student at Carolina Military Institute (based on the Citadel).  Conroy has a wonderful writing style that really enables the reader to visualize everything in the novel, from the atmosphere of Charleson to the vicious beating ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14397638">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jun 24 16:28:17 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 24 16:34:51 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A powerful, moving story written in Conroy's trademark poetic style.  Some parts of it were harder for me to read than even the descriptions of mental illness in The Prince of Tides, or the Holocaust story woven through Beach Music.  I found it immensely disturbing that young men could be so cruel t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2336284">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11741331">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 05 17:26:55 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Conroy's humor in this book, the way he uses it to diffuse some incredibly raw scenes.  I cried so hard when Pig walks down the line and the men turn their back on him.  And then the train.  Ugh.  It absolutely broke my heart.  I love all of Conroy's books for their descriptions, for introduc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11741331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9302932">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Nov 19 07:16:04 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon May 19 06:01:34 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book over the course of two days in September 2000. I could not put it down. It was recommended to me by a friend who attend The Citadel. I rarely read books as fast as I read this one. I highly recommend it.]]></body>
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Linda Griffin]]></recommended_by>
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  <date_added>Fri Jul 18 23:46:18 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 26 04:18:01 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was introduced to this book at Pat Conroy by my high school algebra teacher. She was reading the book just after it came out and suggested that we all read it. I think I may have been the only one who did.<br/><br/>I immediately fell in love with this work. Conroy's descriptions of Charleston ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27687134">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2671045">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lori]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Norman, OK]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Jul 03 09:27:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 19 20:21:26 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are sections of this book I could recite from memory. Two very different passages -- the walk of shame and the big basketball game -- were regularly done as &quot;prose&quot; pieces in my high school drama class, and as I read them, I could hear my classmates' 15-year-old voices in my head. (H...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2671045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11489866">
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    <name><![CDATA[George]]></name>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[E V E R Y  O N E!!!]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 02 17:36:51 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 30 16:58:50 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This would be the 3rd unforgettable book I've read by Mr. Conroy in the past year, and to date. I just love reading his work. There is no other way to put it. He just simply writes, in my humble opinion, the most beautiful sentences I have ever read. He has an unflinching capacity to be so  brutally...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11489866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="11346281">
    <user id="729365">
    <name><![CDATA[Tom]]></name>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 31 12:13:55 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 31 13:47:50 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title of this book makes it sound like Fabio should be posing on the cover. However, the book is absolutely riveting. It's about Will Macleans's trip through four years of The Citadel, the military college in South Carolina where Pat Conroy did in fact go. It's structured around his task of tryi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11346281">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10252515">
    <user id="669275">
    <name><![CDATA[Drew]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Greensboro, NC]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[fans of exceptional literature]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 10 21:36:22 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 10 22:23:38 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is quite simply my very favorite book of all time. Pat Conroy draws upon some of the events of his days as a cadet at The Citadel to tell the story of Will McLean, a senior who attends the fictional Carolina Military Institute in Charleston, South Carolina on a basketball scholarship. Will is c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10252515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24398224">
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    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 13 07:09:53 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Feb 05 09:04:31 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rare indeed is it that I, someone early to bed and late to rise, finds himself wide awake at 1:30am unable to even consider going to bed until the book being read is finished. This almost unbelievable scenario took place last night as I kept turning the pages of this book.<br/><br/>This is the 3rd...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24398224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5166062">
    <user id="279142">
    <name><![CDATA[Joanie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Weymouth, MA]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 27 07:08:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 27 07:53:44 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great book by Conroy. This book is a little different than Beach Music and Prince of Tides, it's about Will, a student at a millitary college. (not too hard to figure out it's supposed to be the Citadel)  A black student is accepted to the school for the first time and the whole school is up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5166062">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="11219320">
    <user id="616153">
    <name><![CDATA[Maurica]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Rochester, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Cadets]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 29 10:23:03 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 24 17:09:01 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this book and I recommend it for anyone who has been a cadet. Though this book was written in 1980, set in the 1960's and written by a graduate of The Citadel, I find situations that I can identify with having been a member of the Corps of Cadets at Virginia Tech. Some things never ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11219320">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="67174888">
    <user id="1320536">
    <name><![CDATA[Keira]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Lakewood, OH]]></location>        
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 12 20:05:24 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Aug 12 20:18:48 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was very well written, with excellent description of both setting and characters.  I especially liked Conroy's accuracy in explaining complex feelings.  His metaphors really struck a chord with me.  However, what earned this book a three was its mediocre plot.  I pretty much knew what was g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67174888">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45025273">
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    <name><![CDATA[Leftbanker]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far the best Pat Conroy novel. A very well-crafted story that stays on the topic—something Conroy forgets in his subsequent novels. This book is one of those novels that you would read again in a single sitting if you came across it one day and had a few hours to spend. For my money <em>The Lords o...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45025273">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="24896412">
    <user id="809104">
    <name><![CDATA[Amanda]]></name>
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  <date_added>Thu Jun 19 09:18:41 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 19 09:20:02 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not into the military and never thought that I would like a military story, but after reading &quot;Beach Music&quot; I had to read more by Mr. Connroy. This story is excellent.  All of his tales have an ounce of autobiography to them.  Connroy had a military upbringing, and this is brought out ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24896412">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="75622110">
    <user id="854592">
    <name><![CDATA[Judy]]></name>
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  <date_added>Sat Oct 24 17:31:14 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 24 17:38:12 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was considering buying South of Broad, the new novel by Pat Conroy, when I realized that I STILL hadn't read The Lords of Discipline which had been on my to-read list for over a decade.  Okay, check it off.  I think that so much time had gone by between Pat Conroy books that I had forgotten about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75622110">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[Maureen]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[ This book is a harrowing thriller about four cadets at an unnamed military academy that closely resembles The Citadel.  Although there is a murder involved, the treatment of the plebes by the upperclassmen and the punishments meted out for not striving to be just like everyone else are some of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23820869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was born in Charleston, went to school at the College of Charleston back in the '80s and dated several Citadel cadets.  What I found so incredible about this book was the number of characters in the book that I knew!  Okay, I don't really &quot;know&quot; them, but the characters in the book are a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17744402">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My very favorite Pat Conroy book, and I love most of them. The plot is woven in Conroy's complex style of twists and turns that never do exactly get tied up in neat little bows although they do finally intersect. That's what makes his novels so real. Also, I sorta kinda halfway fell in love with the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19811247">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've always liked Pat Conroy, and this is my favourite of the books I've read by him. Set in Charleston, South Carolina's military academy, The Citadel, among a group of mismatched friends, the book takes the reader through the life of one student from arrival and initiation to his graduation four y...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43323146">more...</a>]]></body>
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