(urth) If I already like ...

[Jeff Wilson]

On 4/18/2012 12:07 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>> 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.

None of that seemed to make a difference to the plot, being more along 
the lines of conceits or dreams on the parts of various fallible people. 
The concept of people shrinking as they go farther toward some 
unreachable center of being so that there is room for ever more 
incredible places and beings is fascinating, but if it is more than a 
metaphor, I lost it in the character drama along with all the above.

I might give it another shot sometime, but I'd need some kind of really 
juicy spoiler to motivate me.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at clueland.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >