The Magicians by
Lev Grossman My rating:
2 of 5 stars The Magicians : Narnia stories :: Cards Against Humanity : Apples to Apples
Except it's not the fun, shockingly forbidden amusement of your first game of CAH. It's the jaded, not-quite-buzzed-anymore feeling of your fifth or sixth playthrough of the same base set of cards with the same group of friends. There's a little bit of satisfaction in taking a trick (in reading an amusing or well-constructed phrase) but most of the time it's just a bit of something to do to pass the time, no longer novel in its crassness. Furthermore, the plot was glacially slow to get underway.
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