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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Witty, thoughtful insights,
This review is from: Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World (Paperback)
Manguel is best-known for his previous book of essays A HISTORY OF READING. Now, some people like that book and some people don't, and I suspect the lines of polarization will fall the same way on this book. Like A HISTORY, it's a collection of essays, but there is no unified theme to the pieces (other than the fact that Carroll's ALICE stories are used as epigrams for each section). Almost all literature-oriented, of course. I'm not generous with mediocre work, but this is not mediocre; merely rendered with a light touch. If you enjoy entertaining but thoughtful essays, you'll like this. However, if entertainment doesn't belong in the essay for you, you may be looking at the wrong book.
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Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World by Alberto Manguel (Paperback - July 10, 2000)
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