Mann is old school. It reads like a 19th-century novel flying headlong into the horrors of the 20th. Though blessed with the traditional pleasures of characterization, description, dialogue, and storytelling, it is also very much a novel of ideas. For all that, quite approachable too, if very long
Finished this a few days ago. One of the best fantasies I’ve ever read. I wished someone had put this front of me as a teenager because it probably would have been my favorite book ever. Silly at times, sad at others, always imaginative. Now I get how people become obsessed with King Arthur stories
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