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What Good Books Have You Been Reading Lately?
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I'm currently rereading Lev Grossman's [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Magicians-Novel-Lev-Grossman/dp/0670020559/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1283442546&sr=8-9"]The Magicians[/ame], which is one of the most powerfully affecting books I've ever read; it takes off on the conceptual bases of the Harry Potter and Narnia stories but gives them a Brett Easton Ellis kind of twist; but even that is too facile a description, it's really a most fascinating look at magic and fantasy from a realistic and sophisticated viewpoint.
This second time through, I'm finding little flaws and, having also read another of Grossman's books (the earlier and not very good [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Lev-Grossman/dp/015602859X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283442546&sr=8-5"]Codex[/ame]) I'm finding little repetitions in character development and verbal tropes... but it has some of the most imaginitive and compelling descriptive passages I've ever encountered. There's this one chapter wherein the protagonist and his classmates are turned into geese in order to get to the South Pole campus of their school... I read through it three times in a row before going on to finish the book just because it was that good.
I think this is the first time I have been thoroughly captured by a book written by a straight man... all of my favored authors so far have been straight women and gay men. The only other time I experienced such an adoration was with Boris Akunin's "Fandorin" series, the newest translation of which I am eagerly awaiting (they're originally in Russian).
Speaking of which, before I restarted The Magicians, I was reading Gyles Brandreth's [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Wilde-Death-Importance-Mysteries/dp/1416534830/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283442684&sr=1-2"]Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance[/ame], which is a murder mystery starring Oscar Wilde as a Conan Doyle-type sleuth that I found a little tedious in its development and out of character for the Oscar Wilde I know; I'm about a third of the way in and find nothing to enjoy about it. But I bought three books in the series sight unseen, so I have to read them and just hope they get better.
This second time through, I'm finding little flaws and, having also read another of Grossman's books (the earlier and not very good [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Codex-Lev-Grossman/dp/015602859X/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283442546&sr=8-5"]Codex[/ame]) I'm finding little repetitions in character development and verbal tropes... but it has some of the most imaginitive and compelling descriptive passages I've ever encountered. There's this one chapter wherein the protagonist and his classmates are turned into geese in order to get to the South Pole campus of their school... I read through it three times in a row before going on to finish the book just because it was that good.
I think this is the first time I have been thoroughly captured by a book written by a straight man... all of my favored authors so far have been straight women and gay men. The only other time I experienced such an adoration was with Boris Akunin's "Fandorin" series, the newest translation of which I am eagerly awaiting (they're originally in Russian).
Speaking of which, before I restarted The Magicians, I was reading Gyles Brandreth's [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Wilde-Death-Importance-Mysteries/dp/1416534830/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283442684&sr=1-2"]Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance[/ame], which is a murder mystery starring Oscar Wilde as a Conan Doyle-type sleuth that I found a little tedious in its development and out of character for the Oscar Wilde I know; I'm about a third of the way in and find nothing to enjoy about it. But I bought three books in the series sight unseen, so I have to read them and just hope they get better.