The Ghost in Love
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429930666 (1429930667)
Publish date: September 30th 2008
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
I liked this novel a lot--I got sucked in from the first and read it in one sitting. It's not quite like anything I've read. Maybe the closest analogy is a modern prose version of Dante's Divine Comedy with a quirky sense of humor, a contemporary allegory of soul and psyche starring a man, Benjamin ...
Needs a huge and sturdy pair of suspenders for your disbelief. At first it was like "Okay, interesting, let's see where this goes..." Then it became "What. What is happening I don't even know anymore gsdfljkvhleuvlwgvlg." Then you just give up trying to make sense of things and watch what happens ne...
The first Jonathan Carroll book i read, about eight years ago, was The Wooden Sea, an other-worldly sci-fi fever dream of a novel. I really liked it, and then I finished it, and it made me crazy, because at the end, I had only a vague idea of what the heck had happened.The Ghost in Love is less opaq...
I liked this one, didn't love it, and didn't finish it in time for my book club meeting. Although I was enjoying it, I didn't finish it for some reason. Maybe one day?
What happens when someone is scheduled to die and survives instead? Is it a "heavenly computer glitch"? Is it the work of Satan? Or, is it merely a human being's free will. This is a whimsical book about that very question. It is a little reminiscent of TIME TRAVELERS WIFE although not as intriguing...