Friday, June 22, 2012

Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson

This book is pretty funny. As it turns out, we're all living according to the lies the evil librarians have told us; dinosaurs are still alive, and there are three whole new continents (who would believe that 70% of the earth is water anyway? What a waste!). Alcatraz Smedry (the librarians name prisons after the great heroes of the Free Kingdoms, on those three continents) has been living a normal ife, but on his thirteenth birthday his inheritance (a bag of sand) is the beginning of a series of adventures that introduces him to a larger world. Lots of funny, meta-fictional commentary on the role of the narrator and what authors want. Also not shy about poking fun at the Harry Potter series. I really enjoyed this book.

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