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...child become caught up in a maze of mysterious documents that lead them to the original Dracula. Stuffed with rich, incense-laden cultural history and travelogue, The Historian is a smart, bibliophilic mystery in the same vein (sorry) as A.S. Byatt's Possession--but without all that poetry. --Lev Grossman...
...Pulitzer winner to put words in the mouth of a lizard? "Dizzying and odd-but that's as it should be," he says. "I just have the very vaguest stirrings of what I want to write next-and again, it's something I can't possibly do." -By Lev Grossman...
...cheap inspirational guff. "I didn't want a book where they loved each other," he says. "That seemed like a kind of bad, Hollywood way to go. They are frank with each other, but mostly so that they can abuse each other." Spoken like a true heavyweight. -By Lev Grossman...
...binge, postbreakup, on hamburger buns sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!: "It is like a sandwich ... made of emptiness and disbelief." I'm Not the New Me is, in every way, tastier and more filling than that. And so much better for you. --By Lev Grossman, Belinda Luscombe, Carolina A. Miranda and Michele Orecklin
...live in the shadow of giants like Dickens and Proust and Roth. But video games are only 30 years old, and they don't have their Dickens yet. Or do they? "Creating a game," Laidlaw says, "there's always this feeling that you're going into unknown territory." --By Lev Grossman...