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Codex

Lev Grossman

2004348 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2004
first published
  • 2004Harcourt · 348 pages · ENGISBN 9780151010660
  • 2004RB Large Print · 440 pages · ENGISBN 9781419310430
  • 2005Arrow · 384 pagesISBN 9780099491224

An investment banker is sent by his firm to organize a collection of rare books for a mysterious client and realizes that there may be a medieval codex hidden among the volumes that parallels a computer game's addictive virtual reality world.

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Emotional toneUnflinching

How it reads

Plot intensityCharacter driven
ComplexityLayered
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