Recommended by 3 notable people, including Jack Edwards and John Lilly
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Susanna Clarke's Piranesi reads like an extended dream: a solitary narrator catalogs an impossible House of halls, tides and statues, and the prose leans lyrical and meticulous. The book's useful part is immersive atmosphere and slow-building revelation about memory, ethics and identity; its main limitation is deliberately repetitive pacing and elliptical plotting that leaves many beats unstated. Rewarding for readers who enjoy ambiguity and texture, annoying for those who expect conventional plot mechanics. It reads equal parts fable and puzzle.
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within ...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Fantasy and Fiction.
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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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