A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. — Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

— Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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