I just feel meh about this book. It took me forever to get through because I wasn't engaged with the story at all. That said, I really apreciate a few of the things that Crowley did with the story. However, as I was working it out in my brain I realized what really put me off. If there are some ...
I'll dispense with plot summaries-no need to repeat everyone else.I have not ventured into fantasyland since I read Tolkien way back when. I'm wasn't sure I could suspend belief for faeries although these faeries are very Greek in their manipulation of humans and definitely have their own agenda. Ul...
Little, Big is a confounding book. It would win me over in one page and then lose me again in the next. The writing really was as lovely as all the other reviews said, and there are so many neat little bits of imagery and fantastical moments throughout that I'm truly disappointed in not being able t...
I'd started reading without any idea what it was about (usually I read synopses or GoodReads reviews before committing to reading a certain book). The fact that it was 800+ pages? I figured if it was absorbing then it was worth diving in. The beginning (A Journey. A Quest. but of course!) was easy ...
I still don't know what was going on, but I think that's to his credit given that I was interested until the end. Way too obscure for me (since when is it sublime to be unintelligible?) but somehow still bearable. I really don't know what to say. Well, it's not like anything else I've ever read.
A confounding and plotless book that I found great work to read even though the prose is lovely. I'm glad I finished it, as the ending was rather lovely, but don't know that I'll pick it up again.
I'm a bit torn about this book. I really enjoyed the writing, the story on the other hand, parts of it were fantastic and engrossing and other parts were so mind-numbing it was hard to continue with it. But overall, I just felt lost. Like I was missing a key part of everything. You meet people and e...
An odd Fantasy masterpiece with some of the most beautiful language you will find in the genre, but not much in the way of plot. Smoky Barnable falls in love with Daily Alice Drinkwater, who lives in a house that can only be reached on foot and seems to exist half in the real world and half in the ...
Little, Big was the first John Crowley book I ever read. In many ways, it is my favorite Crowley book. In all honestly, I have to admit that the end of the book drags just a little. The very end is beautiful, but like 75 pages before drag just a bit.The language and the care in the book are wonde...
Little, Big is the story fo a family that lives in a house called Edgewood, far to the north of The City. It follows the family from generation to generation. Let's just say fairies play a part in the lives of the Drinkwaters and their relatives.The only book I can compare it to at the moment is J...
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