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I finished “The Lady with the Little Dog” by Chekhov yesterday, there's only one more short story on the compilation book I have, “The Bishop”. Next I want to start “Père Goriot” by Balzac as I downloaded the epub on my kindle like 3 years ago but never read it.
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Missed the thread yesterday, but I finished The Once and Future King. The second half takes a much more serious turn, to the point where they don't feel like the same book.
I think this might actually qualify as magic realism. Supernatural elements are out of focus and presented very matter-of-fact-ly. They're a big part of the "plot," but the text is much more interested in the people living in this world. Stuff that another author might have spent five chapters on (wars, epic quests, finding the Holy Grail) gets summarized in a few paragraphs or related in dialog so we can get back to cuckold drama or discussions of governing philosophy. The book is extremely well written, but also sometimes frustrating for this reason. And it makes me want to read some older Arthurian tales.
I'd say the book is often mischaracterized as fantasy because the first section has a lot more focus on direct encounters with magic (Arthur getting turned into different animals, etc)
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