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Thankful for Fantasy

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” – Dr. Seuss.

“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters, united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.” Francisco Goya.

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This book absolutely suffers from first novel syndrome. The ideas and plot are sound and interesting (though a little bit derivative for this book), and Smiley is a unique character, but the writing is clunky, and riddled with slang. That can be a gr ...more
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I hate to say this, but this was the worst of the Stormlight books thus far. The ending is worthy of the events, but the writing itself was a little lackluster and a little mis-paced. The severity of what is happening felt like Sanderson was just tel ...more
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