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[John Watkins]

I haven't read Little, Big yet (on my shelf but buried at the moment) but
did anyone else get a bit of a House of Leaves vibe?  House of Leaves is,
IMHO, a more ambitious book and a better one, but both are stories about
weird houses that seemingly increase in size, told by unreliable narrators
and involving a pair of twins.  There's even an epistolatory section of
House of Leaves.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Roy C. Lackey <rclackey at stic.net> wrote:

> Craig Brewer wrote:
> [snip]
> > And, for some reason, when they mention that her house is just out of
> sight in the forest, something about that reminded me of one of the first
> glimpses of Faerie we get in Crowley's _Little, Big_ with the little house.
> Nothing specific, just one of many flashes of Crowley's book that kept
> popping into my head while reading. The houses that change shape/size is
> another obvious similarity, of course.<
>
> I, too, was reminded of Crowley's book, particularly that last bit about
> houses changing size, being bigger on the inside than they could possibly
> have been as judged from outside, IIRC. That is why I brought up earlier
> the
> issue of the Black house changing from nine rooms to more than forty.
> Martha
> said, "It grows when people live in it, and shrinks when they don't." (278)
>
> The house, perhaps more than anything else, makes me believe the Faerie
> bits
> of the story are true. That house is a doorway into Faerie, and that is why
> George wanted it. (261)
>
> -Roy
>
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