by Jonathan Carroll
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...
The Ghost in Love is a bizarre page-turner that breaks all the rules of death and ghosts as we know them. According to Jonathan Carroll, God decided to create ghosts only because people believed in them anyway and they seemed like a good idea. Their purpose would be to tie up loose ends after a pers...
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