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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Lev Grossman

My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only.
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Adults Book Groups
Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.
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Magic Mind World
Young minds – young brains – need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they’ll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.
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Believe Book Need Order Stories
The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
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Hero Real Sidekicks Villian
I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.
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College Littles Long Study
It turns out that there is something that can compete with free: easy.
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Easy Turnsm Something
Escapism has value, even if I don’t know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it’s just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.
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Healthy Way World
It’s an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek
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Glimpse Looks Soul
Magic is wild, dangerous stuff. You never realize how useful limitations are until it’s much too late.
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Late Magic Stuff Too
The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
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Learning Nonstop Process Wonderment
The new Web is a very different thing. It’s a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it’s really a revolution.
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Contribute Different People Silicon Small Together
A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.
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Magical Pain Strong World
His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he’d gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.
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Crush Depressing relief
We have lived too long. The great days are past.
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Day Great Long Past
The truth doesn’t always make a good story, does it?
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Good Make Stories
He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.
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Complete Merely Quest Something

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

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The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all – in the end the vast majority of them simply aren’t that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

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