Chrestomanci, Book 5
by Diana Wynne Jones
Recommended by Neil Gaiman
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Teen & Young Adult, Adult, and Fantasy.
Conrad is young, good at heart, and yet is apparently suffering from the effects of such bad karma that there is nothing in his future but terrible things. Unless he can alter his circumstances well, quite frankly, he is DOOMED.Conrad is sent in disguise to Stallery Mansion, to infiltrate the magical fortress that has power over the whole town of...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Teen & Young Adult, Adult, and Fantasy.
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Neil Gaiman
“Anything else by Diana Wynne Jones that's right for older kids. Fire and Hemlock, the Chrestomanci books, Dogsbody, and too many to list...”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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