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Letters from a Stoic - Seneca, Robin Campbell

Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

The Twin - Gerbrand Bakker

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Letters from a Stoic - Seneca, Robin Campbell

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Composed by Seneca the Younger during his retirement after he had worked for Nero for more than a decade, these letters to pr...

Letters from a Stoic - Seneca, Robin Campbell

February 2018

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Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

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My favorite contemporary fantasy after Gormenghast and Little, Big. The sort of big, yet grounded achievement you don't see t...

Winter's Tale - Mark Helprin

December 2017

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Spellcaster - George Bachman

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The Twin - Gerbrand Bakker

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Starts off hard and becomes kind by the end as the lead character finds redemption in the life that has been handed to him pa...

The Twin - Gerbrand Bakker

November 2017

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The Knot of Vipers: A Will of Spite (The Nobel Prize Collection) - Francois Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Edouard D'Araille, Gerard Hopkins

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I don't know if this is Mauriac's best but I can see why Nabokov loved it so much. It reminds me a lot of Pnin if Pnin wasn't...

The Knot of Vipers: A Will of Spite (The Nobel Prize Collection) - Francois Mauriac, Francois Mauriac, Edouard D'Araille, Gerard Hopkins

November 2017

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Radiant Terminus - Antoine Volodine, Jeffrey Zuckerman

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Reminds me a lot of Lem and the films of Tarkovsky. Beautiful and bleak. Immersive, effortless world-building. Frightening an...

Radiant Terminus - Antoine Volodine, Jeffrey Zuckerman

September 2017

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In Sunlight and in Shadow - Mark Helprin

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Rapturous epic of the city, as magical as Helprin's great Winter's Tale even if it is not a fantasy. It is as immersive as an...

In Sunlight and in Shadow - Mark Helprin

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A literary fantasy about Christine, a Provencal socialite trying to find a remedy for psychic visions that seem to be killing...

Spellcaster - George Bachman

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