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.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Roy C. Lackey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rclackey@stic.net">rclackey@stic.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Craig Brewer wrote:<br>[snip]<br>
<div class="im">> And, for some reason, when they mention that her house is just out of<br>sight in the forest, something about that reminded me of one of the first<br>glimpses of Faerie we get in Crowley's _Little, Big_ with the little house.<br>
Nothing specific, just one of many flashes of Crowley's book that kept<br>popping into my head while reading. The houses that change shape/size is<br>another obvious similarity, of course.<<br><br></div>I, too, was reminded of Crowley's book, particularly that last bit about<br>
houses changing size, being bigger on the inside than they could possibly<br>have been as judged from outside, IIRC. That is why I brought up earlier the<br>issue of the Black house changing from nine rooms to more than forty. Martha<br>
said, "It grows when people live in it, and shrinks when they don't." (278)<br><br>The house, perhaps more than anything else, makes me believe the Faerie bits<br>of the story are true. That house is a doorway into Faerie, and that is why<br>
George wanted it. (261)<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Roy<br></font>
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