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  <title><![CDATA[Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;i&gt;Journey to the Land of the Dead. All Expenses Paid!&lt;/i&gt;

Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living.

The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, and return, alive, to the land of men.

But being an Easterner is not exactly like being human, by Dragaeran standards anyway. Thus, the rule doesn't apply to me&amp;hellip;I hope.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1988</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Steven Brust]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dans ce quatrième tome, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/27704.Steven_Brust" title="Steven Brust">Brust</a> s'amuse à nouveau à remonter dans la vie de Vald tatlos, pour nous faire découvrir comment il est devenu l'ami de puissants (Morrolan, Sethra Lavode et Aliera), et ce avec un style incroyable qui me rappelle certaines des folies de <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7628.Iain_M_Banks" title="Iain M. Banks">Iain M Banks</a>.<br/>Oh, bien sûr, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74052164">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Feb 04 20:40:20 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Feb 04 20:40:20 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A strong entry in the series, this book covers Vlad’s early days. The only problem with it is that Brust chose to tell two separate stories, and to interweave the two by jumping between them every two or three pages. It just doesn’t work – neither story can develop a rhythym, and there’s no ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45423491">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting use of time shifting, though constantly moving back and forth between the past and present, while relatively straight forward, gets a little confusing.  Also, this book (and most of them, it seems) are short.  Perhaps that's a good thing, as I'm sure some authors tend to pile on the word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70712448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54542846">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 30 19:38:03 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 30 19:41:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the better Vlad Taltos books.  This one deals with elven mythology.  Steven Brust does some creative things with narrative which I rather liked.  If this book has a flaw, it's that there's not enough here, plot-wise.]]></body>
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    <review id="38817102">
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Dec 12 10:46:06 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the main story of Morrolan and Vlad getting to know each other in the Paths of the Dead. It explained why Morrolan and Aliera are always ready to help Vlad without question. I had know idea how much he had helped them. I'm still not sure what made Vlad decide to help them in the first place....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38817102">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54063239">
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  <read_at>Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu May 14 19:23:25 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far this is my favorite book in the Taltos series...]]></body>
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    <review id="72772146">
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  <read_at>Sun Oct 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stellar. I love Brust's writing and this character.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should just write up reviews for the series cause these are all going to sound alike.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The journey to Deathsgate Falls is interesting, but really confusing.]]></body>
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    <review id="20475747">
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    <body><![CDATA[of the series I think this is my favorite]]></body>
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