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A Review Loosely Based on A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel

Moses Maimonides wrote The Guide for the Perplexed in 1190. Eight hundred 800 years later, Jonathan Levi wrote A Guide for the Perplexed: A Novel, loosely based on the original text with some fantastical alternative history. What starts out as a simple travel saga quickly divides and multiplies into histories of World War II, the Spanish Inquisition, the discovery of the New World, the founding of Florida, and the origin of baseball, as well as lost loves, lost children, lost…

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Is Worst. Person. Ever. a condemnation of all of us?

Is Raymond Gunt the worst person ever? At a minimum, he’s had some help…

This book’s main character, Raymond Gunt, may in fact be the worst person ever, or he may just be proof that assumptions and a lack of context make for the worst in people. Truth be told, that’s probably and sadly more common than we’d all like to think.

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October Light has layers beyond its book within a book

There are quite a few stories within this book, including a book within a book that’s quite the read, but I’ll get to that in a moment. October Light, written by James Gardner, is based on two very specific things; a conflict between an old man and an old woman, as well as pieces of a fictional book that we read along with one of the characters.

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