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avg rating 3.91
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date pub 1998
date pub edition Jun 16, 1999
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date pub Jan 01, 2011
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444
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avg rating 3.36
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date pub Oct 11, 2011
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date pub Sep 2011
date pub edition Sep 01, 2011
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avg rating 4.50
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date pub Jun 09, 2011
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isbn13 9780385338608
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avg rating 3.77
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date pub 1989
date pub edition Mar 16, 2010
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356
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avg rating 3.93
num ratings 654
date pub 1964
date pub edition Nov 01, 2004
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isbn13 9780195019193
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avg rating 4.44
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date pub Aug 01, 1977
date pub edition Aug 25, 1977
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Britt's rating my rating review The Spell Sword , is, IMHO, extremely weak. It's not very exciting—dreary really. The Forbidden Tower is better. I find the mechanics of "matri...more The Spell Sword , is, IMHO, extremely weak. It's not very exciting—dreary really. The Forbidden Tower is better. I find the mechanics of "matrix work" to be very ad hoc, with a lot of problems that are solved by deus ex machina hand-waving. Overall, it's less interesting than your average fantasy magic system, really. However, interesting parts of both works are the people and the relationships, which go through significant, interesting growth and change (moreso in The Forbidden Tower), and the relationships are complicated in interesting ways by the telepathy between the characters. I am have a telepathic premonition (okay, really, I've just been reading summaries)... that the dullness of the telepathy is going to plague me through the whole series, but the problem is, due to MZB's skill in building, revealing, and evolving characters, I'm hooked. :-/(less)
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414
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avg rating 3.91
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date pub 1983
date pub edition Sep 01, 1983
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avg rating 3.55
num ratings 7,774
date pub 2008
date pub edition Oct 07, 2008
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isbn13 9780886773328
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424
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avg rating 3.72
num ratings 616
date pub 1984
date pub edition Oct 01, 1984
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isbn13 9780307720139
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num pages
256
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avg rating 3.75
num ratings 65
date pub Nov 01, 2011
date pub edition Nov 01, 2011
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isbn 0802717934
isbn13 9780802717931
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num pages
272
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avg rating 3.37
num ratings 144
date pub Jan 01, 2011
date pub edition Sep 27, 2011
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avg rating 4.17
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date pub Jan 18, 2004
date pub edition Feb 01, 2005
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384
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avg rating 4.11
num ratings 12,298
date pub 1994
date pub edition Mar 26, 2002
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308
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avg rating 3.32
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date pub Jan 01, 2011
date pub edition Jul 12, 2011
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16
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avg rating 4.44
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date pub Sep 30, 2010
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274
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avg rating 3.64
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date pub Jun 08, 2010
date pub edition Jun 08, 2010
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400
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avg rating 4.14
num ratings 18,324
date pub 1985
date pub edition Nov 17, 2010
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isbn13 9780142400760
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251
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avg rating 3.89
num ratings 6,195
date pub Mar 04, 2002
date pub edition Mar 08, 2004
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isbn13 9780060509064
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num pages
362
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avg rating 4.19
num ratings 771
date pub Mar 2002
date pub edition Mar 04, 2003
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avg rating 3.45
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date pub Jan 01, 1969
date pub edition Apr 01, 1986
Britt's rating my rating review The title (and the racy covers on some editions) might lead you to expect a little more swashbuckling than is actually present in this book. This is m...more The title (and the racy covers on some editions) might lead you to expect a little more swashbuckling than is actually present in this book. This is mainly a corporate finance thriller, with a few hard-sf elements mixed in. Apropos of the current economy, suburbia has been laid waste by a housing bubble, but then real estate world is turned on its head by... bubble houses. With some very grim consequences for society. Overall, though the book comes off as very dated. There's lots of rapid-fire 50's repartee and raging, obnoxious sexism and racism. Pretty much all the characters are thoroughly unlikeable.
I was really sweating as I got down to the last few pages, as no gladiatorial combat had ensued, and I was feeling very cheated. (It brought to mind the crushing letdown at the end of Make Room Make Room in which, it turns out, Soylent Green is made of... soy and lentils. But, then, rapidly and incongruously the title character and his band of misfits get dumped into the Roman-circus-like games.
Really, though, our "gladiator-at-law" doesn't do much in the ring except pass around bribes, so, it was a bit sad.
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avg rating 3.93
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date pub Apr 01, 2008
date pub edition Apr 01, 2008
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avg rating 3.76
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date pub Jan 01, 2010
date pub edition Aug 31, 2010
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isbn13 9781933354101
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avg rating 3.90
num ratings 1,395
date pub Aug 31, 2006
date pub edition Sep 01, 2006
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isbn13 9780765314901
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avg rating 4.07
num ratings 407
date pub 1996
date pub edition Feb 21, 2006
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184
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avg rating 3.29
num ratings 7
date pub Jan 01, 2001
date pub edition Jan 01, 2001
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