The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)

by Lev Grossman

All of it just confirmed his belief that his real life, the life he should be living, had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into somewhere better.

“We human beings are unhappy all the time. We hate ourselves and we hate each other and sometimes we wish You or Whoever had never created us or this shit-ass world or any other shit-ass world. Do You realize that? So next time You might think about not doing such a half-assed job.”