2.5
Codex
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About to depart on his first vacation in years, Edward Wozny, a hotshot young investment banker, is sent to help one of his firm's most important and mysterious clients. When he's asked to uncrate and organize a personal library of rare books, Edward's indignation turns to intrigue as he realizes that there may be a unique medieval codex hidden among the volumes, a treasure kept locked away for many years and for many reasons.
Meanwhile, as friends draw Edward into a peculiar and addictive computer game, his obsession deepens as he discovers surprising parallels between the game's virtual reality and the mystery of the codex. An accomplished and entertaining thriller,
explores the mysterious power of books in the medieval and modern ages.
"Captivating . . . [An] intelligent, enjoyable novel." —
"Takes its place on the shelf of self-referential, bibliophilic page turners like
,
and
, and it's as entertaining as any of them." —
"An exhilarating literary tour de force . . . mesmerizing from start to finish. A fabulous double-helix of a novel." —
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2.5
“Codex lured me in with hopes of a mysterious artifact, grand conspiracy and a splash of danger. Which, for a large portion of the book, it delivered. Some clever connections and reveals gripped me and I found myself really enjoying this, only to be gloriously betrayed by the final chapter. Settling in for those final chapters and experiencing such true and sudden disappointment is far more powerful than what was written in those last pages. Perhaps Grossman is a genius and intended for our disappointment to reflect the ending, or maybe he just ran out of steam and couldn't stick the landing. I assume the latter.”
“I read this because I loved the Magicians series. That love misled me to believe it would get better by the end. It did not. I should have just stopped and not finished.
The whole thing felt extremely unlikely and forced. Also I appreciate that Lev Grossman turns a lot of expectations on their head and keeps readers on their toes by not following common tropes, structures, and literary expectations. This however was just so much of that that it felt absurd and also just made the whole book super pointless and unpleasant.”
About Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman was born in Massachusetts in 1969 and studied literature at Harvard and Yale. He is a writer and book critic for
. He has written feature articles for
,
,
,
and
, and was previously the producer of timedigital.com, Time magazine's personal technology website. He lives in Brooklyn.
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