(urth) If I already like ...

[Jerry Friedman]

>From: Jeff Wilson jwilson at clueland.com>
>On 4/18/2012 6:59 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> On 4/17/2012 10:42 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> On 4/17/2012 2:08 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>>> I strongly second the recommendation for Crowley, and I'd start with
>>>> /Little, Big, /although he's never written anything bad since /Beasts/.
>>>
>>> _Little, Big_ was a disappointment for me. Part of the novel is urban,
>>> but the specks of actual fantasy come before and after.

There's a brownie in the City, and what appears to be an animated statue, and the killing of a changeling (that eats hot coals), and a gateway to Faerie and a way to communicate to someone in Faerie, and a resurrected Barbarossa.
 
>> Do you mean classic Victorian-style fantasy vs urban fantasy?
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>I was ready for either, but outside of a talking fish and bird, I came 
>up empty.
 
There's lots of other fantasy in it too.
 
> It has to be the least fantastic fantasy I've ever encountered.

I take it you haven't read /Freedom and Necessity/, by Steven Brust and Emma Bull.  Or some Robertson Davies books, such as /The Rebel Angels/ and /The Cunning Man/, or /The Mask of Apollo/ by Mary Renault (unless they don't count since they weren't marketed as fantasy).
 
>Other than that, it was okay.

Jerry Friedman