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5 days ago · Recently, we discussed Piranesi by Susanna Clarke on The Novel Tea Podcast. The book is about a man who must find his way through a seemingly endless House with enormous statues, timely floods, and countless vestibules. His journey is disrupted when a Visitor introduces ideas and concepts that change his perspective permanently. In the story, the House itself represents a unique character with ...
5 days ago · Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is a haunting novel that immerses readers in a surreal world—a vast and enigmatic labyrinthine structure known as the House. The story follows the House’s sole inhabitant and the eponymous protagonist, Piranesi, as he navigates its endless halls, corridors, and ever-shifting architecture.
2 days ago · I’ve been putting this off for so long, but this year I’m bound and determined to finally read Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. A movie adaptation from the studio Laika was announced just last month and I’m super excited because Laika has made some of my absolute favorite animated movies: Coraline and ParaNorman .
2 days ago · And while reading novels, mostly classic 20th-century British novels: Angus Wilson, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Ronald Firbank – that sort of stuff. ... It looks like a Piranesi fantasy.
1 day ago · Piranesi is the most surprising book I’ve read (listened to as I’m listening to the audiobook) this year. I really struggled with the first two chapters – they’re long, purposefully confusing and just didn’t grab me as much as I think they were meant to.
4 days ago · Alan Moore, The Great WhenBloomsbury, October 1. When a fictional book out of an Arthur Machen story ends up in a used bookstore in post-WWII London, a young man’s entire sense of the universe is turned upside down. It’s a rollicking adventure, the first in an apparent series.
And while reading novels, mostly classic 20th-century British novels: Angus Wilson, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Ronald Firbank – that sort of stuff. Then there’s the bitter laughing, which is when you laugh at the pretentiousness of people ...
