I love fairy-tale retellings. Anything that takes the classic story, the classic characters and develops them a bit more, pulls back the curtains a bit wider. This is one such book. It's a collaborative effort. Two poets and an illustrator. Fifteen classic tales with two poems for each--one by each...
Not as good as some of Cornell Woolrich's other novels but still well above the herd. Typically outrageous plot that we actually don't care much about as long as it carries the suspense. Woolrich supplies the usual twist and doesn't telegraph it too early. Full of metaphor and simile like all good n...
A book that grew on me as I read it. At first I didn't know what to think. The plot was too unbelievable for even Woolrich, too many turns of fate, the Deus ex machina on every other page. I finally realized it was all allegory. Fantasy isn't believable either but we somehow still believe that wizar...
Bizarre and outrageously plotted little mysteries that are hard to describe - a guy's girlfriend disappears while they are walking to dinner and nobody will believe she was ever real, a guy stuffs a corpse in his luggage so he can dump it at sea only to have the cop he shares a cabin with suspect th...
Cornell should have stopped at the penultimate chapter. I just couldn't buy that after all they had been through, they couldn't put this behind them as well. It seemed tacked on. Was there ever anybody better than Cornell Woolrich at creating a living breathing human being in so few words? I just a...
Fun collection of paired poems speculating on what fairy tale characters were really thinking.
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