D.A. Anderson's review of Piranesi

5/5: I had only heard good reviews in the kind of "just shut up and read it" variety about this book, so I had very little foreknowledge about it or its subject matter when I went in. Some books are best experienced that way. This is one of them. I will try to keep my review relatively spoiler-free, but I nonetheless have to give it five stars for reasons which I hope will become clear. I try not to give out five stars easily—usually resorting to four stars with some nitpick, but I can't do that with this book. There was a point at which it seemed to reach out from the page (or the light of my k...