I kept wishing this book were more like Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell so badly that it severely disabled my ability to enjoy what I was reading or even observe it in any objective sense. An okay novel that is damaged, I think, by its "fable" tone--the characters seemed unknowable, inconsequential. ...
This book took me a really long time to read. That statement alone would probably turn a lot of people away from reading the book, and that's most likely for the best. It's not a book meant for everyone (if there really is such a thing). A gorgeous, dense and allusive novel that is surely fantasy ...
We imagine what kind of stories our lives will make as we live them. Through a combination of Memory and Clairvoyance we piece together what we think will be our story, our Tale. John Crowley weaves just such a Tale, a Tale which his characters constantly and explicitly try to piece together for the...
If "A Midsummer Night's Dream, which is really kinda about Beltane, and "The Tempest" had a love-child, it might be "Little, Big" by John Crowley. It came out in 1981 and is in the same Fantasy realm of world-building as Charles DeLint. I can definitely see how one must have influenced the other - ...
Original, Trite. Epic, Weak. Boring, Lively. Rambling, Unspoken. Significant, Inconsequential. Simple, Overwrought. Compact, Frazzled. Vivid, Tasteless. Vague, Determined. Wonderful, Blah. Little, Big. A two-word summary of Little, Big is in the title: a book of opposites. My review could be summe...
The author makes beautiful use of language in the descriptions, but that's the only positive thing I can say about this book. It's ridiculously slow and tedious. Like frozen treacle. Nothing happens. When something FINALLY does happen, nothing happens. The characters are flat, dull and just "han...
Got two chapters in and it just never grabbed me. I RARELY give up on a book. But this one is just too slow and the vocabulary is, can I say it? Ostentatious.
Oh this is one of those books that are so difficult to review. All books don't suit everyone, like music, or food, and this is one that I think you must either love or hate. It's like reading a Grimm's fairy tale, as narrated by the little prince, it's the reading equivalent of Elsa Beskow's paintin...
I'm going to try to write a review that is less convoluted than this book, but that may be difficult as my brain still feels a bit scattered. The three star rating on this is a definitely an averaging in my head. There were parts of it that were beautiful and startling and wonderful to read (and wo...
You know that mind-place when you ar waking up in the middle of a dream? That place where anything can happen, and logic is totally different? i LOVE that place..it is so surreal. That is what reading this book is like...magic happens, logic is suspended, and the tale gets told...
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