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Hooked after a few pages after a captivating and in some ways horrifying intro

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Im describing it terribly but tim powers fictional magic just feels like what magic would act like if it was realits not an old wizard shooting a fireball out of his hands its an impossibility becoming real because certain improbable things line up and that fits the keyhole reality needs to change itself

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Sure the characters can all quote eliot as if each were a devoted english major certainly there are all sorts of tarot references from the obvious to the obscure

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Which is not to say that the book cant be very clever

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In particular the mystical approach to the mandelbrot fractal left me rolling my eyes as did a wacky interpretation of mosquito sleep cycles

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Arguably the pseudoscience all stems from one character but i felt it didnt quite belong in the book anyway

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The book careens toward the throw in everything fringe approach of robert anton wilson at times focus on the cards would have been fine

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All right send over snayheever