Winter's Tale (my full review here) is a story of love, larceny and flying horses during New York's Belle Epoque (Just after the turn of the 20th century). It is a tale of criminal gangs, indigenous marsh-dwelling tribes, rainbow bridges and immortal architects. It is a story of love, beauty and jus...
This book is mostly weird, occasionally wonderful, and about as suited for adapting into a movie as a fever dream. I literally do not see how this will work at all.
Ugh, you guys. I was so bitterly disappointed by this book. Honestly, I’d never even heard of it until it was featured in an episode of Fringe a couple of years ago, and because Fringe is the shit, I decided to check it out. It sounded like something that had been written just for me, and indeed, ...
I quite enjoyed this one, though I have to admit I was surprised at how fantastical it was for a regular fiction book. I mean, it's got flying horses and people skipping through time. Once you accept that, it's a very good book, very heavy on romanticism, idealism, and spiritualism. Plot is also ...
That is why in good faith I cannot give this book less than four stars - the writing is better than so many books that I have read. I am also not sure whether this book can be called epical romance - I would call it fantasy epic about New York. I have to admit that I also enjoyed first part more tha...
This really is gorgeous, but I can't seem to read anything right now that requires any degree of thought beyond, "Fire bad. Tree pretty." I definitely will pick this back up, perhaps once we get our first snow of the year. This really is a book that needs to be read curled up in a blanket on a wintr...
A beautifully written book that goes nowhere.I finally gave up on this at the halfway point. I never quit on a book, and I'm afraid I have to blame GoodReads for giving up on this one - since I found GR I have more books than I can handle on my list!The story centres on a number of characters in Ne...
It is with disappointment that I abandon this book, but it had a bit too much flounce. I wonder if we intuit our inappropriateness for certain books from the first pages, which in this book, for example, include a horse that can’t live without Manhattan. That was a fat clue. It turns out this horse ...
I really can't wait to finish A Soldier of the Great War and move onto the next book.I can't imagine spending ~20 more tortuous hours reading another Helprin book with a million adjectives describing aesthetics, love and beauty...Until someone convinces me otherwise, I'm abandoning this book.
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