(urth) Crowley and mystery

[David Duffy]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Tim Walters wrote:

>
>>>> It's just probably not the sort of stuff that inspires me to get
>>> online
>>>> and try to hash out what the hell is going on with some other readers.
>>> For that, I would recommend John Crowley, especially _Engine Summer_ and
>>> _Little, Big_.
>>
>> I don't find either of those books particularly confusing.
>
> I agree that their surface is less confusing than Wolfe's, but I get
> something new every time I read them; and I would love to see the fine
> spelunkers of this list unleashed on them (or, as you say, _Aegypt_) to
> dig up the many things I'm sure I missed.
>

You might know that a number of former list members put together
_Snake's Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley_

Recently read _Lord Byron's Novel_, which was enjoyable too.  Perhaps not 
quite as dab a pastiche as the voice that Susanna Clarke uses

David Duffy.

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