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    <![CDATA[The Prestige]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Washington Post called this &quot;a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants.&quot; Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award, The Prestige is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who's ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the &quot;It's alive!&quot; scene in Frankenstein will relish the &quot;special effects&quot; by none other than Nikola Tesla.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[It actually took me quite a long time to read this one, and while I largely enjoyed it, I can't help wondering some things. My suspicion is that I was sometimes uninspired to keep reading because the pacing was a bit slower than the movie. Connected to that, I kept wondering over and over again what...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31107354">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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