This novel was a genuine pleasure to read--the first in what feels like longer than two weeks, there were some mistakes made. Some wonderful, juicy turns of phrase, and characters that are a delight to spend some time with in a novel, even if many of them would almost certainly become wearying in life; actual thematic things to say: mostly arising naturally from the main character's ... understanding (so intuitive that it takes him most of the novel to articulate anything close to it) that if he's going to choose to live, his life should be worth living. This is another novel steeped in Jewishness that probably sounds more depressing when reduced to a blurb than it is.
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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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