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• from Aran Joseph CanesTop Contributor: Philosophy -- TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE : A Modern Mystery about Antiquity ( 5.0 out of 5 stars )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Rennie Walker -- Strange. Unique. Otherwordly. Captivating. : Firstly, this is a "strange" story. How strange? Hmm. Consider if H.P. Lovecraft had an imagination of massive goodness and gentleness to partner with his skill at grandeur. That strange. Or, if the lyrics to A Whiter Shade of Pale" were expanded into a cohesive, novel-length, narrative. That analogy too might work. Consider your own appetite for "strange" before you jump in to buy and begin. This story became truly entrancing for me. ( Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2020 )
• 4.0 out of 5 stars from Richard Seltzer -- Puzzled, but pleasantly so : Weird. I was tempted to read this because I loved her humorous and insightful dealings with magic in Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. This is a short and confusing journey through a labyrinthine alternate world. The power of the prose and the clues that teasingly almost make sense of what is going on compelled me to keep reading even when I had no idea at all what was going on. Maybe someday the meaning of this story will suddenly dawn on me and I'll think it is brilliant. For now I'm simply puzzled, but pleasantly so. ( Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from A. Joshua Sims -- Can I get there by candle-light? Yes and back again : I just finished a wonderful book by Susanna Clarke, “Piranesi" named for Giovanni Battista's "Piranesi and the Three-Dimensional Labyrinth". The book is an allegory and a love-song to life. It begins with childhood and an open mind. By our twenties we start to search for answers. At mid-life, if we are lucky, we discover the beauty of the world again, and for some, try to rediscover ourselves. Often familiar with our earlier life, but often in awe of who we once were, as if who we were is some distant relative. Scattered through out the novel are reference points that guide the reader into our youngest selves. A statue of Mr. Tumnus, from the Chronicles of Narnia for example, with a finger to his lips, as if to ask us not to tell, or not to ask. But perhaps my favorite of all comes at the end. From an old childhood rhyme about magic places. In my nursery rhyme book there was an image of a child in robes, walking through the dark with nothing but a lantern to guide them. “ How many miles to Babylon? Threescore miles and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes and back again.” Can I return to my childhood self? Yes and back again. ( Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Bizzie -- Well worth reading : I don’t know what to make of it at all but I read it over a couple of days - me, who can’t focus on anything lately - and it nibbled away at my mind with half forgotten memories, questions, associations, connections with its mish mash of historical & current cultural streams. Interesting, absorbing, & unlike anything else I’ve read - bit Iain Banks, Life of Pi, House of Crosse & Keys, Lion Witch Wardrobe, Alice, I Robot, magical realism/Murakami, dystopian, modern detective - it blurs lines, it’s current, it gets your mind engaged and working without you realising, it’s not difficult to read and begs for rereading - themes of charisma, control, identity, memory v reality, coercive control and more, make it irresistibly thought provoking - and it’s really well written. A book that stays with you after reading. That’s where art lies. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2020 )
• 1.0 out of 5 stars from Meems -- Emperor’s new clothes : ... I feel like I’ve been party to an Emperor’s new clothes type scam. I don’t get it, I don’t like it, I feel like I’ve been duped into paying for the book of the Century whilst in the COVID loo roll queue.. Obviously me, as it has marvellous reviews. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 2, 2020 )
• 1.0 out of 5 stars from John Smith -- Amateur : 75 pages of utter boredom before anything started to happen. The constant reference to the seventh hall of this and the 9th vestibule of that, was like reading a 12 year old's story. I still cannot believe this tripe ever got published and am deeply suspicious of the entire industry when one reads the official recommendations. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2020 )
• 3.0 out of 5 stars from Godot -- I SHOULD have been Clarke's ideal reader? : According to the author's Radio4 interview, it's inspired by Borges' short stories - and I'm obsessed with them. It's based on Piranesi's wonderful prints - and I love them. I'm fascinated by memory and time and what makes us what we are - and I don't mind at all if 'nothing happens'. It got off to an encouraging start and it was an easy read. But in the end it's shallow and it ain't Borges by a very long way! It's someone playing with profound ideas - space and time and personality and so on - using the Borges labyrinths and illusions, if you like, but in a superficial way. I'll not spoil the ending, but the solution, when it comes, is a very pedestrian 'cop-out' - literally so, I'm afraid! It's as though the author had no confidence in the world she has created? My advice? Well, read it, but ignore the hype and wait for the paperback. I think I expected too much. ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 6, 2020 )
• 5.0 out of 5 stars from Loti-Lou -- Review for those who have already read the book... : This review doesn’t have spoilers, as such, more questions that I feel are unanswered. I can’t find the answers online and I feel like I’m missing something hugely important, or perhaps utterly irrelevant? This book has left me reeling. I devoured it in a couple of bath times and I adored it. It’s like nothing I’ve ever read before. I’m usually pretty good at guessing plot twists, turns of fate and endings. This one, two thirds of the way through, I felt like I’d lost my grip on anything I thought I knew. It’s a great read and you will easily find yourself lost in the other world. HOWEVER, what is the House? Is it real? Throughout the book, I had assumed it was a metaphor for something. (Is it?) Then I thought surely Piranesi was simply mad and the house existed only in his imagination. (Did it?) But then others arrive and see it’s beauty. They are haunted by it. He leaves? He comes back freely as and when he chooses. He brings others back who have visited before, yet it’s not (as I expected) magically transformed to a dank little basement or a derelict house, a lonely prison cell. It remains just as vast and as beautiful as it always has been! I’m so confused, but in the most delightful ways. I feel like I’m missing something, or perhaps I’m not missing anything at all. Maybe I’m trying too hard to make sense of something that is simply, deliberately, unexplainable? Or maybe I’m not! ( Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2020 )

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