(urth) Silverlock

Adam Thornton adam at io.com
Tue Dec 30 11:07:50 PST 2008


On Dec 29, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Tim Walters wrote:

>> OT: Has anyone ever read John Myers Myers's *Silverlock*?   
>> Recommend it?
>
> Yes to the first, maybe to the second--I love it, and re-read it
> regularly, but it's easy to imagine someone not liking its mannered  
> and
> somewhat goofy style. If you like other wise-cracking,
> Saturday-Evening-Post-ish fantasies of its (rough) period (e.g., _The
> Circus of Dr. Lao_, _Jurgen_, _Messer Marco Polo_, _The Night-Life  
> of the
> Gods_, _The Crock Of Gold_, _Fancies And Goodnights_) you should  
> read it
> post-haste.
>
> If not, it still might be worth a shot (since, unlike any of those  
> books
> except _Jurgen_ and _F&G_, it transcends that sub-genre), but maybe it
> shouldn't top your want list.

FWIW, I dug it highly too.  Admittedly, the roll-around-in-steaming- 
piles-of-allusions isn't as magical to me as it was in high school,  
and these days Jasper Fforde does that really well....but I too reread  
it every couple of years.

Adam
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