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		<title>Brisingr By: Christopher Paolini</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2009/02/23/brisingr-by-christopher-paolini-2/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2009/02/23/brisingr-by-christopher-paolini-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Blumer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just so we&#8217;re not confused: We are posting another point of view on Brisingr by another reviewer for more perspective. MTG Christopher Paolini’s Brisingr is the third book of four in the Inheritance series, and I read it because I had already trudged through the first two books and wanted to know where the epic-length [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Objectionable Elements and the Exploration of New Genres by Matt Gardenghi</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/07/28/opinion-objectionable-elements-and-the-exploration-of-new-genres-by-matt-gardenghi/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/07/28/opinion-objectionable-elements-and-the-exploration-of-new-genres-by-matt-gardenghi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gardenghi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t a book review in the traditional sense, mostly because I am not certain I want to tell people what I just read. We&#8217;ll get back to that. What I did do was this: I explored two genres that I have traditionally frowned upon and was surprised at my findings. First, was anime. Now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/06/15/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-by-j-k-rowling/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2008/06/15/harry-potter-and-the-deathly-hallows-by-j-k-rowling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gardenghi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While traveling recently, my wife brought along the final installment of the Harry Potter series. Having read all of the books (entirely as audio books) and watched the movies, I finally am ready to write a little bit about them. For a long time, I have heard Christians rail on the stories as being anti-God, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2007/11/26/tales-of-terror-and-mystery-by-arthur-conan-doyle/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2007/11/26/tales-of-terror-and-mystery-by-arthur-conan-doyle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gardenghi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a variety of material. Most notably, he had the first truly great detective (and consequently the first great arch-villain). (He even wrote the adventure story: The Lost World, being the inspiration for Jurassic Park and a myriad of adaptations.) To my mild surprise, Doyle also dabbled in the genre of horror [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>From Earth to the Moon &amp; Round the Moon by Jules Verne</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2007/11/12/from-earth-to-the-moon-round-the-moon-by-jules-verne/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2007/11/12/from-earth-to-the-moon-round-the-moon-by-jules-verne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Gardenghi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago I joined Team Cringely, a group of volunteers looking to put a rover on the moon as a part of the Google Lunar X Prize. This group is a loose organization of volunteers who want to participate in space but haven’t the opportunity to do so. Growing up, only two careers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>The ABC Murders, by Agatha Christie</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2007/10/01/the-abc-murders-by-agatha-christie/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2007/10/01/the-abc-murders-by-agatha-christie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 21:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sincerelyornot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hercule P. is a Private Detective of some repute in London, so he gets threatening letters every week. His intuition sends warning signals, however, at one particular letter from a person claiming to want 26 people dead&#8211; in alphabetical order. Several bragging letters and corresponding murders later, our hero has no clues and fewer ideas. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conclusion of Harry Potter Series&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/08/11/conclusion-of-harry-potter-series/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/08/11/conclusion-of-harry-potter-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2005 01:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my final post in my series on Harry Potter. Book six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was published just a few weeks ago. It broke pretty much every publishing record for a new release and was in the media headlines for days. I won&#8217;t go into the plot too much in [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Realism in Harry Potter</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/20/realism-in-harry-potter/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/20/realism-in-harry-potter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might be wondering what the point of this post is. I mean there&#8217;s nothing wrong with being realistic is there? Well, the answer isn&#8217;t as straightforward as you might think. Realism, when used appropriately, can enhance fiction by making seem, well, more real. When most people read they are drawn into the author&#8217;s world [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Harry Potter Continued</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/13/harry-potter-continued/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/13/harry-potter-continued/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post I discussed magic and Harry Potter. I&#8217;ll finish that up now and start a discussion on the use of violence and language in the Potter books. Magic is appropriate to use in fiction. Often it is used to represent the supernatural occurrences that really happen in the world. Magic is appropriate [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Magic and Harry Potter</title>
		<link>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/05/magic-and-harry-potter/</link>
		<comments>http://conservativebooktalk.com/2005/07/05/magic-and-harry-potter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am resisting the tremendously strong urge to write an article discussing our nation&#8217;s birth and the events of the American Revolution. It is times of the year like this that make a historian almost quiver with delight and expectation. I will say that I spent a good part of Independence Day reading David McCullough&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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