Both "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" by Neal Gaiman are good reads. Gaiman is similiar to Jonathan Carroll, in his ability to twisted the familiar into...
oh when i said a nice man ...i did mean mr G not me. oh how punctuation gets you in trouble...(shall stop using dots.....damn) neverwhere,as i remember(use...
... Yes, in fact, it was, and it was fairly faithful to the book as well as entertaining. Neverwhere is a *great* book. Neil Gaiman was a guest of honor at a...
thanks robert, it's things like that that drive me mad. J...
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Katie Schwarz
kts@...
Oct 6, 2004 8:42 pm
... Actually the TV show came first, and then Gaiman wrote it as a novel... and then I seem to recall there was even some thought of making a movie of it, but...
I read _Dark Cities Underground_, and liked it -- yes, very Carrolesque, imaginative. Her voice didn't seem particular California, but I grew up there, so it...
... Speaking of 'Carrolesque,' has anyone checked out Jeffrey Ford's "The Fantasy Writer's Assistant" short story collection? Ford isn't necessarily similar to...
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interested party
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Oct 13, 2004 2:54 pm
Has anyone read the Carroll blog from 10/13? Holy cow, what an extraordinary idea. I really do think entry for entry, it's one of the best blogs I've ever read...
Yeah, that was cool. It shows up in a few of his novels, I think. I read a parallel idea in Kierkegaard recently but haven't been able to track it down. I'm...
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interested party
interested49@...
Oct 13, 2004 4:03 pm
I don't know if I agree with you on that, Jim. In THE WOODEN SEA, Frannie's younger self comes back but he isn't summoned. He seems to appear of his own ornery...
Yeah, I was just speaking in general about the theme itself, not going into any more detail beyond that. It's probably fair to say the development of this...
Two comments - 1) Yes, JC's blog is awesome... that's why I steal from him almost daily for my own blog. 2) I think the first image looks more like a certain ...
My impression was that it was "thigh high." LOL Catherine James Rovira <jrovira@...> wrote: Ha, Dave, I stand corrected. It does look like a woman's index...
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Paul
venasque@...
Oct 14, 2004 11:25 pm
I think it would get great if after enough blogs are done they get collected in a single volume. I really enjoy reading them and there are quite a few I want...
So many of his entries are taken from his books, I think it's working the other way around. I also really enjoyed reading his journal on the White Apples site ...
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Paul
venasque@...
Oct 15, 2004 1:05 am
I debated whether I was going to share this or not, but then thought what the heck. I forwarded the link to Carrolls blogs to a couple of my friends. They...
... After meeting JC, my wife also observed how attentive he was to women in person. Too attentive. Flirting all the time. And the women were LOVING it. All...
About JC's blog from either yesterday or the day before... someone posted on my LiveJournal, the following response: If you could do that, what's to stop you...
First, if Carroll were to publish a blog book I'd buy it, just because it's a Carroll book. BUT, the print form would somewhat defeat the purpose...a blog is...
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interested party
interested49@...
Oct 15, 2004 5:08 am
Hypothetically we get wiser as we get older. Of course that's not true much of the time, but assume it is. Our younger selves think they want things that the...
Right, hypothetically, Ethan :). I think it's wise to see what people call an increase in wisdom, even when it really does happen, in terms of a trade-off....
Another perspective from my blog... In our world of honesty and straightforwardness, we like to hold onto the notion that we don't wear masks to cope with...
Ha...you actually get some of that in Carrol's novels, I think...each version of Fanny seems to show up the flaws in the other. I think the goal is an...
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interested party
interested49@...
Oct 16, 2004 4:00 am
A qualifier-- in certain ways I feel stronger and more confident about things in life because I am older, but in other ways much more baffled by things that...
Hey great! silence then all this! There is a great saying that goes something like the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts... Yep there are and were...
... I feel like I should pipe up as a young person in response to what you've written - perhaps what you've written is true for yourself, but it's surely not...
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interested party
interested49@...
Oct 18, 2004 5:45 am
All you have to do is look at the wilder products of the 60's and 70's love generation in the US and see where they ended up (like Jerry Rubin of the infamous...
Responses below... ... Older people who have really learned can tell you what you need to hear in ways you can accept. If not that, then still tell you, but...
