The Wooden Sea (Gollancz)
ISBN:
9780575072916 (0575072911)
Edition language: English
Series: Crane's View (#3)
I’ve spent the last month of 2015 reading three novels by Jonathan Carroll. The Wooden Sea is the third of the Carroll novels I’ve read. You can look at the reviews of the other two Carroll novels: White Apples and Glass Soup here. I will admit after reading these novels that Jonathan Carroll has j...
i am simultaneously amused and bemused by jonathan carroll's books. they make so much sense and nonsense at the same time.they also remind me of one of my favourite poems, by stephen crane:Many red devils ran from my heartAnd out upon the page,They were so tinyThe pen could mash them.And many strugg...
I like my fantasy book to fit one another. What I mean is, you can have your fantasy world as crazy as you like but please stick to your rules. Because otherwise it would just fall apart and unbelieveable.Carroll broke too many of his own rules in this book for me. His concept of different selves ju...
This is one strange book, strange like a dream. In the literature of the fantastic strange happenings in a small town is a common theme, but in this one the strange is taken another step. The entire book is like one continuous dream. For example, there is an instance in which the protagonist gets ou...