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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:39:00 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/700965.Ring_of_Fire_2">Ring of Fire 2 (Assiti Shards Anthology, #2)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8688.Eric_Flint">Eric Flint</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:30:41 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:38 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:27:53 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[is currently reading: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6301385.The_Sword_of_the_Lady_A_Novel_of_the_Change">The Sword of the Lady: A Novel of the Change (Change Series)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14002.S_M_Stirling">S.M. Stirling</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:26:28 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2922849.The_Scourge_of_God">The Scourge of God (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14002.S_M_Stirling">S.M. Stirling</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:25:39 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Another great &quot;Emberverse&quot; book &amp; another raiting that I wish that I could give an additional half star to... The action sequences and descriptions of the marial details are still engrossing. The characters are fun and the mythology that is being built is very interesting indeed. The impli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/Another%20great%20%22Emberverse%22%20book%20&amp;%20another%20raiting%20that%20I%20wish%20that%20I%20could%20give%20an%20additional%20half%20star%20to...%20The%20action%20sequences%20and%20descriptions%20of%20the%20marial%20details%20are%20still%20engrossing.%20The%20characters%20are%20fun%20and%20the%20mythology%20that%20is%20being%20built%20is%20very%20interesting%20indeed.%20The%20implications%20of%20Powers%20behind%20the%20scenes%20at%20war%20while%20using%20Man%20as%20just%20one%20skirmish%20on%20a%20vast%20battlefield%20is%20frightening%20and%20fun.%20As%20with%20all%20of%20the%20previous%20books,%20this%20one%20is%20a%20real%20page-turner.%20However,%20the%20one%20drawback%20that%20seems%20to%20be%20getting%20worse%20with%20each%20successive%20novel%20is%20Stirling's%20obsession%20with%20mideaval%20ideas%20of%20governance%20&amp;%20how%20the%20myths%20of%20old%20seem%20to%20be%20eradicating%20the%20%22myths%22%20of%20the%20just-deceased%20modern%20world.%20It's%20hard%20to%20believe%20that%20while%20moderns%20conveniences%20have%20been%20lost,%20the%20ideas%20and%20ideals%20of%20the%20past%20200%20years%20would%20simply%20disappear%20just%20as%20quickly.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/264225.The_Sunrise_Lands">The Sunrise Lands (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14002.S_M_Stirling">S.M. Stirling</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:10:57 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[A fine addition/continuation of the &quot;Emberverse,&quot; but it is quite plodding. NOt that this is an altogether bad thing, but the filler that Stirling is using -a more focused mysticism, for example- can get just a wee bit tiring. I woudl have rated this with an additionla half-star if Goodrea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/A%20fine%20addition%2Fcontinuation%20of%20the%20%22Emberverse,%22%20but%20it%20is%20quite%20plodding.%20NOt%20that%20this%20is%20an%20altogether%20bad%20thing,%20but%20the%20filler%20that%20Stirling%20is%20using%20-a%20more%20focused%20mysticism,%20for%20example-%20can%20get%20just%20a%20wee%20bit%20tiring.%20I%20woudl%20have%20rated%20this%20with%20an%20additionla%20half-star%20if%20Goodreads%20would've%20let%20me.">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:41:23 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[marked as to-read: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13086.Suburban_Nation_The_Rise_of_Sprawl_and_the_Decline_of_the_American_Dream">Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream (Paperback)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8186.Andre_s_Duany">Andrés Duany</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:25:21 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
        
    
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