Maggie’s review of Piranesi > Likes and Comments
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Yup same, it was so great! 🕊️🕊️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️
Just finished....it gave me that same childhood magic feeling that TRC does. Thank you for recommending this.
I agree! Best book I've read in years. Just magic.
Couldn’t agree more with this review, what a beautiful little book!
Could not agree more!! I started reading this book about 3 hours ago and just finished the last page... I didn't put it down ONCE!
This is wonderful to hear. I felt exactly the same way. I had been anticipating this book for ages and was somewhat crushed to see how short it was. But what lacks in length it more than makes for in substance. An extraordinary piece of storytelling. I’m referring it to absolutely everyone.
Yeah I thought of your writing several times when reading this! It was magnificent!
A puzzle of a book, entertaining to the last sentence
Just finished this stupendously arcane jewel of a book and agree with everything said here. It consumed me totally for the two days it took me to consume it in return. A mutually consumptive delight.
All of the same mind: wishing to be enveloped by a bright and beautiful environment. I, like Piranesi, hope to return to that world someday.
Me too! Best in 5 years.
Ok - you gave it a five. What was the point? A guy lost in a maze being deluded by another man? Why was this a good book? What did it mean? What was the point of the book?
Maggie my dear, me too, i read another two times :o . My other favorite book is One hundred years of solitude. I tried to find trough similar books here and
in google, but ended up with, although nice, with books very different from Piranesi...
I love your books (!) and this review is great! I just finished the book and cannot figure out how to begin a review.... but I do know the rating will be on par with most other readers!
I really enjoyed the book too. Is it okay to use your thoughts on my BookShook podcast? (BookShook.buzzsprout.com). Your comments about the first 10 pages being challenging will be refreshing to my listeners ears :-)
This book was far too short.
I wish I could have stayed inside much longer, for the House, with its disorienting halls and vestibules and statues and staircases and tides and birds and incredible beauties is immeasurable, its kindness infinite.
I have truly come to miss the 192nd western hall. In fact I waited for it for the remaining half of the book.
From one Hall to another I could perceive Charles Dexter Ward, John Fowles' a Maggot, the Man in the Maze, and many more, all of us lost in the sweet Labyrinth of this mental collapse.
This book is impossible to describe if you haven't met the Albatros. And if you have, maybe you'll want to keep him for yourself, mark him down in your diary, lest we forget.
One question though, just one question: most characters in the story have double gendered names. I wonder why she does that. Perhaps it's just the House again.
I wondered about the purposeful gender confusion too
I just finished the book... Where can I find these essays? I loved it a lot.
A perfect review and now I need to read Opal.
Well if anything could recommend me this book it would be you telling me it would be delightful and drive me batty. Thank you (?)
SO important to persist through the confusion because it will all eventually make sense!!!
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Yup same, it was so great! 🕊️🕊️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️
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Just finished....it gave me that same childhood magic feeling that TRC does. Thank you for recommending this.
I agree! Best book I've read in years. Just magic.
Couldn’t agree more with this review, what a beautiful little book!
Could not agree more!! I started reading this book about 3 hours ago and just finished the last page... I didn't put it down ONCE!
This is wonderful to hear. I felt exactly the same way. I had been anticipating this book for ages and was somewhat crushed to see how short it was. But what lacks in length it more than makes for in substance. An extraordinary piece of storytelling. I’m referring it to absolutely everyone.
Yeah I thought of your writing several times when reading this! It was magnificent!
A puzzle of a book, entertaining to the last sentence
Just finished this stupendously arcane jewel of a book and agree with everything said here. It consumed me totally for the two days it took me to consume it in return. A mutually consumptive delight.
All of the same mind: wishing to be enveloped by a bright and beautiful environment. I, like Piranesi, hope to return to that world someday.
Me too! Best in 5 years.
Ok - you gave it a five. What was the point? A guy lost in a maze being deluded by another man? Why was this a good book? What did it mean? What was the point of the book?
Maggie my dear, me too, i read another two times :o . My other favorite book is One hundred years of solitude. I tried to find trough similar books here andin google, but ended up with, although nice, with books very different from Piranesi...
I love your books (!) and this review is great! I just finished the book and cannot figure out how to begin a review.... but I do know the rating will be on par with most other readers!
I really enjoyed the book too. Is it okay to use your thoughts on my BookShook podcast? (BookShook.buzzsprout.com). Your comments about the first 10 pages being challenging will be refreshing to my listeners ears :-)
This book was far too short.I wish I could have stayed inside much longer, for the House, with its disorienting halls and vestibules and statues and staircases and tides and birds and incredible beauties is immeasurable, its kindness infinite.
I have truly come to miss the 192nd western hall. In fact I waited for it for the remaining half of the book.
From one Hall to another I could perceive Charles Dexter Ward, John Fowles' a Maggot, the Man in the Maze, and many more, all of us lost in the sweet Labyrinth of this mental collapse.
This book is impossible to describe if you haven't met the Albatros. And if you have, maybe you'll want to keep him for yourself, mark him down in your diary, lest we forget.
One question though, just one question: most characters in the story have double gendered names. I wonder why she does that. Perhaps it's just the House again.
I wondered about the purposeful gender confusion too
I just finished the book... Where can I find these essays? I loved it a lot.
A perfect review and now I need to read Opal.
Well if anything could recommend me this book it would be you telling me it would be delightful and drive me batty. Thank you (?)
SO important to persist through the confusion because it will all eventually make sense!!!
