Hi all, I just finished White Apples -- to show you how big my to read pile is, I received WA as a gift for Xmas *2002*! Overall, I liked it. I wrote a...
... I actually started it a few months ago, got 30 pages or so in but then had to return it to a friend that lent it to me (our creative writing class was over...
I read Mark Z. Danielewski's "Whalestoe Letters" and really liked it. (I'm always a sucker for a book made of letters/emails. Griffin & Sabine, anyone?) If I ...
i risk sounding stupid but has anyone heard of magical realism? i came across the term and read a little about it before i thought, "hey, this sounds...
... Uber-pretentious rubbish. The basic idea is an intriguing one and the climax, about 2/3rds of the way in to the box is quite an exciting one. But ...
Oh, yeah, that's a pretty widely disseminated term for certain kinds of fiction writing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is probably its best proponent. Isabel Allende...
I can't believe some of the authors they included...how stupid. Elizabeth Bishop? William Faulkner (eh...closer, maybe)? Flaubert? Hawthorne? James? D.H....
Ahem! Been away a bit and come back to magical realism..... Old idea of what do you categorize this author as. Was reading today about fairytales. Yes I know...
heh yea... lawrence??? the mind boggles... my opinion of MR is that it's too loose of a genre, if it's a genre at all... basically anything supernatural that...
I think the definition of MR, like anything else, is only useful when it's narrow. It was probably useful some time back, but now it means too much to mean...
hi all, I've got so many books on my to read pile I can't decide what to read next. Here's what I've narrowed it down to: Girl With Curious Hair by David...
The only titles I'm familiar with are the Helprin and the Carroll (of course the Carroll). VoS is one of the darker Carrolls, if I remember right, and that...
Although that's not my fave Nicholas Christopher book, I'd do that one or "Gormenghast". x0 E. (Voice of Our Shadow is good too, of course, but quite short....
Oh, you've got yourself a great list there. I can only speak of those I've read from your list, which are: Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin A Trip to the Stars by...
OOOOOH, maddened, I see your point entirely but come on it's too easy to say religous for explanation surely? Genres are poor substitutes for us trying to...
Jay, Voice of Our Shadow is certainly one of Carroll's best, though personally I prefer A Child Across the Sky, and, because I'm a sucker for short stories,...
Just an aside that although I haven't read the Gormenghast books, I thoroughly enjoyed the mini-series. For those that have read it, how true is the movie to ...
In a message dated 1/7/2004 3:20:47 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... I'm reading that right now. Interesting, not a whole lot happening, but still fascinating...
... Thanks for the replies everyone! Actually, I'm starting a book that was just added to my pile -- I received Conjunctions 39: The New Fabulists in the mail...
Hi all, I just received Conjunctions 39: The New Fabulists in the mail today. I completely forgot that the collection included a new short story by Jonathan...
Ditto's about "Simon's" -- I heard Carroll read it during his book tour. He introduced it as the opening chapter of his forthcoming book. There's something...
... I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm mistaken, but I'm fairly sure that Simon's House of Lipstick is actually an excerpt from his next novel, the...
... Interesting, James mentioned this as well. It could very well be the opening chapter of _Glass Soup_; it does read like a complete, standalone short story...
Yeah, there's no question it was introduced at the reading as the opening chapter of his forthcoming novel. I'm not quite sure how it fits into the storyline,...
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Dagmar Lipovics
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Jan 8, 2004 6:50 pm
Spoilers ahead-- There are several aspects of this story that I liked very much (beside the always interesting take Carroll has on "reality"). The protagonist...
Oh, lord, yes, the human sized bag of caramels (with an attitude -- only Carroll could write a bag of caramels with an attitude) was one of my favorite parts...
I just joined the list and wanted to introduce myself to everyone. My name is Wordlark aka Catherine and I will be lurking in the shadows until I find...
