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The Prestige
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The Washington Post called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, i... »
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The Invisible Man (Penguin Classics)
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My knowledge of this tale dates from the old Claude Rains movie, so it was interesting, as usual, to go back to the source and see what Wells actually wrote. While very short,the novel falls into two halves: the first faintly comic (you can see it peopled by all those Universal British character actors), the second more suspenseful and more of what the... »
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JLA Vol. 4: Strength in Numbers
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So by this point, I'm pretty much into the groove of Grant Morrison's writing and I didn't really think he would surprise me with anything new or exciting, but with the first story in here he did it. We are introduced to a new villain, Prometheus, and he is just too cool. He's basically the anti-Batman, except he gains all his knowledge and abilities... »
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The Separation
Christopher Priest proves himself a verbal M. C. Escher with "The Separation." Like Escher's famous "Moebius Strip," this book's "beginning" and "end" are... »
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Black Panther: The Client
This comic was the beginning of my interest in Marvel Comics! It's a great supernatural thriller with the coolest hero.... »
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The Quiet Woman
Since the film debut of The Prestiege, I've been reading books by Christopher Priest non-stop. Beginning with The Prestiege, then moving back to some of h... »
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The Extremes
A bizarre and horrible coincidence draws FBI special agent Teresa Simons to England: on the same day that a mass murderer killed her husband and fourteen... »
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