Piranesi

A haunting and thought provoking book.

There exists a world of endless vast marble halls, each lined with statues. Huge staircases lead up to halls filled with clouds, or down to the drowned halls in which the ocean rages.

Through these halls wanders a man, alone except for the bones of thirteen predecessors and The Other.

Fifteen dwellers in this, The House.

These are his journals which tell of his explorations, his discoveries, and of the coming of the Sixteenth.

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I'm not sure what it was about this book, but I was desperate to uncover the mysteries it presented. It was very hard to put it down - I just kept plowing through at every available opportunity.

I'm sure I'll be thinking about the imagery in this book for a very long time.