So after not one but two recommendations, I have read this book. While in many ways the ancient China of the novel is dated, it was clearly written with deep love for the culture and its folklore (and arguably the folklore and fiction of other places--it can't be an accident that Key Rabbit repeatedly says, "Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear," and I spotted Russian folklore in the person of Koshchei) with just a touch of modern flippancy. The characters are tidily drawn, and the story unfolds cleanly if not always expectedly.
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Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
This is labeled as an epistolary novel, but that's not entirely right. There are entries that could not possibly have been written, fr...
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I read this book like thirty years ago (ack!) when I was in college, and I remembered liking it, and when my wife picked it as a classic-i...
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The cover text calls this something like "one of the most important novels" blah blah blah. It's not a novel, it's a disc...
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Not a novel, which ... well ... some of the events described in the book would stretch credulity in fiction. It's a book about the lie...
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