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Can A Novel Be Too Good?

The Secret History of My Relationship With The Secret History

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Brian Mattson
Jul 11, 2022
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Dear Friends,

If you were to ask me the most “gripping” novel I’ve ever read, I would not have to think for too long. There is one book that was so dark, so oddly creepy, and so utterly mesmerizing that for weeks after I’d finished it I thought about it constantly and even dreamed about it.

I then loaned the book—without forewarning—to a friend, who came…

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