This is one of those books that just do not sit well with me. This book did not cause mixed emotions or even flickering enjoyment. No, this book was not for me by page 2. I love books based on and in Russia, which is why I picked this book up 6 years ago and thought for sure I would enjoy it. Wel...
I've given a lot of thought to this review: how to begin, how to describe this story, how to explain my utter adoration for it, and most importantly, what words I might use to successfully make everyone read this book right now.As you can probably imagine, I've come up rather short on all counts....
Inevitably a disappointment, coming after The Solitudes, which gives the quartet such a strong start. But I suspect Love and Sleep is more satisfying the second time around, when the reader has a better idea of its strengths as well as its (many) weaknesses. The main problem is the way its parts ...
In between the seven years between the last and penultimate installments of his Aegypt cycle, John Crowley wrote two standalone novels of a different tone to his hermetic story. Far from being the mystical prose readers of his acclaimed Little, Big had come to expect/demand, these novels delivere...
Praise for the Aegypt sequence: "A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."-The New York Times Book Review "A master of language, plot, and characterization."-Harold Bloom "The further in you go, the bigger it gets."-James Hynes "The writing here is intricate...
Its says a lot that I read straight through this omnibus and began on Crowley's fourth novel Little, Big immediately afterwards. Of the three I would pick the wistful and evocative Engine Summer as my favorite - a dreamy, post apocalyptic story about, well, stories, or a myth about myths if you l...
I have to confess that I was stumped by this one.Coming to Crowley as I have through Little, Big and Engine Summer, I was expecting some blissfully ambiguous fantasy to emerge when the main character Pierce Moffett stepped off a bus, abandoned the track of the life that he knew, and followed an o...
A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the first time, all of his short fiction has been col...
Again four stars, but this was a rougher one for me . . . it's really 3.5 with the scope of the whole series pulling it up a little. Mostly because I don't like Rose, and the more the book zoomed in on her the more irritated I got. I have a painfully low tolerance for people I want to slap, whe...
copyright © 1977 by Stuart David Schiff. First published (in a slightly different version) in Whispers, edited by Stuart David Schiff, published by Doubleday. Reprinted by permission of the author and his agent, Ralph Vicinanza, Ltd. “Her Bounty to the Dead” under the title “Where Spirits Gat The...
<[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: No sense Lee— We got it and we don’t know what to do next. Look at what it looks like: That’s part of the first page. What Ada did was copy out the whole manuscript, translated into numbers and enciphered. She got sheets ...
In those ancient rooms near the center of Belaire all our wisdom originates, born in the gossip’s mind as she sits to watch the Filing System or think on the saints. Things come together, and the saint or the System reveals a new thing not thought before to be there, but which once born spirals o...
The greatest question concerning Werewolves, and one debated since the Middle Ages by learned writers and doctors, is whether Werewolves can actually change their forms, or only think they have changed them; whether, as a result of their nature or through the power of the DEVIL (q.v.), they are a...