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  <title>Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure</title>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Judaism meets Dungeons and Dragons meets As You Like It in a florid, wordy prose. Swashes were indeed buckled, and adventures were had in a well-researched and well-realized world of ancient Jewry. At first I really enjoyed this departure from Chabon's 20th century naturalistic roots. However, by the end the author was undone by all the action required to wrap up such a genre-inspired tale. During the last couple chapters I was frankly lost until things quieted down again. Luckily the book is short otherwise all the crazy sentence structure would have simply collapsed under its own weight. Chabon writes an afterword that could be seen as apology, or explication and was really unnecessary. Though it was merely a so-so book, I would encourage him and other Atlantic and New York Times literary stars to continue busting down the genre walls.]]></body>
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