Tag: the magicians
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Ten books I read this year which are exactly as good as you think they are
Normally, I divide my year-end book list into two categories: books that are as good as you think they are and books that are surprisingly good. I do this just because it’d feel weird if I stood up and was like, “Hey, I read this amazing book. It’s called Anna Karenina! Have you heard of it?!?!”…
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I actually learned nothing from assembling my list of all of the novels that I really love
I’ve spend several days looking at the list that I put together a few days ago. And as far as I can tell, I’ve basically learned nothing. I can tell because I actually had an epiphany about my own work the other day. Which is that the works of mine that I enjoy are the ones…
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Finished reading Lev Grossman’s _The Magicians_
While working on a novel, I generally like to read things that are pretty different from it. So I’ve decided to go back and catch up on some of the most-hyped SF/F books of the last decade. In general…I have not been that pleased with them. But I won’t mention the ones that I don’t…