Book Review - Is There a Thematic Hook in Fictional Books?

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In preping for the recording, i got a little bit more out of it. I think my impulse just, like, knowing myself as i do, wouldn't be too get annoyed that the structure was not paying offMore convincingly. And what this guy's doing is like, and this was something i kind of into, i could feel was happening. It does seem to be related to these books taking each other's place.

Sometimes a book is so meta it sort of breaks your brain! How to talk about a book that is all beginnings and no ends? How to discuss a book that enlists You, the Reader, in its chicanery? We try to get on the wavelength with Calvino's text. You be the judge of if we get there.

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