Unfortunately, the final third doesn't live up to beginning, and edges too close to magic realism simply for the sake of magic realism, rather than as a technique to reach an artistic end.
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The Angel's Game by Zafón
Unfortunately, the final third doesn't live up to beginning, and edges too close to magic realism simply for the sake of magic realism, rather than as a technique to reach an artistic end.
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The Afflictions & Automatic Eve
The Afflictions, by Vikram Paralkar (a doctor in real life) is sort of a compendium of fantastical illnesses, in very very short story form. At its…
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The Russia House, by John Le Carré
Kind of interesting for being written in the time of Gorbachev and glasnost and perestroika. Not long before the Soviet Union collapsed. But as a…
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The Glass Hammer / A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
The Glass Hammer, by KW Jeter, bears the stamp of Jeter's mentor Philip K Dick, both thematically and in a character that seems very much like a…
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