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    <updated_at>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:35:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Unlike most of the Anderson books I've been (re)reading recently, this one is not one of his Technic Civilization series. Instead it's a collection of short stories that have nothing to do with that universe.<br/><br/>I won't go into each of the stories; suffice to say that if Poul Anderson wrote ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75702187">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:40:55 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[Great historical perspective, but denser than I expected, and it sometimes veers off into what I considered to be the esoteric. Having a degree in philosophy would definitely help in absorbing the good information here. It also takes a strong Christian point of view, which I approve of but which som...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73111555">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <action_text><![CDATA[gave 3 stars to: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4767154.Not_With_a_Bang_But_a_Whimper_The_Politics_and_Culture_of_Decline">Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline (Hardcover)</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67950.Theodore_Dalrymple">Theodore Dalrymple</a>]]></action_text>
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    <updated_at>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:13:18 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
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    <updated_at>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:29:01 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book about 10 years ago, but never got past the first couple of chapters. I'm not sure why, but I think it had to do mainly with the author's stilted and grandiose language, making it seem more like a propaganda work (which it surely was, being written during the Irish Civil W...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33235664">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:31:37 -0700</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[This is the third volume in the new Polesotechnic League collection of Poul Anderson's works, and my second-favorite so far (&quot;The Van Rijn Method&quot; is still tops). In this volume, the merchant princes of the League begin to fall out among themselves and abandon the altruistic principles tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64665893">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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