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  <title><![CDATA[Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life]]></title>
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  <default_description>Biography of the famed Clark Savage, Jr. The author swears every word is true! Includes a biographical essay on each of his friends and collaborators; A long article concerning the family tree of Doc Savage (you will be amazed at who is included in that tree!); and, a boon to collectors everywhere, a list of all the Savage novels in their order of publication.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1975</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Philip José Farmer]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a hoot. Farmer takes a close look at the entire run of Doc Savage stories, giving a brief overview of every main character (Doc, his five &quot;brothers&quot; in adventure, and his cousin, Pat Savage) and every major aspect of the stories. But he looks at them as if the characters and a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38312584">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book I've read before, but not in a while so I borrowed my housemate's copy. While I still have some quibbles about the Wold Newton hypothesis (women seem reduced to nothing more than incubators for their more famous offspring, and the interconnection of famous fictional characters goes to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63843254">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I got a few pages into this one before I realized, &quot;no, it's not what I thought it would be, and, no, it's not going to get any better.&quot;  I confirmed all that by skimming to about the half-way point.  Terrible.  I thought this would be a re-imagining of a classic pulp hero, but instead it'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57362054">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A brilliant book and a must own for any true Doc Savage fan.<br/>An amazing amount of research went into figuring out how all the books fit together and how  the hints given about Doc's past  as well as those of his 'Famous Five' can be pieced together to form a history.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>...]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1973</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a remarkably interesting and comprehensive exploration of the life of Doc Savage, his fictional family tree, his friends and associates, and the authors who brought the greatest pulp hero of all time to life. I've read it many times!  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't drum up any support for this stuff locally, not even with Alan Moore on my side. This is the problem: too many people say things like, &quot;Who cares if Rex the Wonder Dog was the brother of Pooch from the Losers?&quot; Farmer would care.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip Jose Farmer (1975)]]></body>
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