Lexicon

by Max Barry

What if you could convince your paren'ts to let you stay out as late as you wanted, does that sound pretty good?

What if you could convince them to buy you that shiny new sports car. Even better right? 

Well why stop there, what if you could just convince someone to go and steal that shiny new sports car for you?

What if there were no limits to what you could make someone do?

At the Institute in Virginia, students are taught the art of persuasion. Using the hidden power of language, students are taught to use words as weapons. Weapons that can compromise an individual and force them to do whatever they want. 

The very best will graduate as “Poets”, serving an unknown organization with even deeper secrets. 

Lexicon is an intellectually stunning novel, highly evocative of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians

Give them both a shot and let me know which of the two you preferred and why!

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