I couldn’t get myself to read this book… When I first got it from store, I had in Polish. I’ve started right away, as I simply adore Carroll’s books, but then came the disappointment. I simply couldn’t go on. I left it. Then tried again after some time and it still wasn’t possible for me to read ...
Another great tale! p 141 - so far this isn't really much about the ghost being in love.NO. NO NO NO NO NO.
You just have to totally suspend disbelief and enjoy Great concepts, moments of insight & brilliance, but it just didn't hang together for me.
Not at all what I expected. Very thought provoking! Hard to explain, but it was really my kind of book. Not for everyone. But I loved it.
Jonathan Carroll is a writer whose name I have been hearing over the years, but whose fiction I've never tried. An American living in Vienna for many years, he has developed a quiet but steadfast cult following - much like the city itself, with its with its unlimited supply of quiet coffee houses...
Miranda Romanae is a successful thirtysomething woman in today's modern word, yet she feels alone and adrift on the sea of her life. At her high school reunion she makes a shattering discovery that further undermines her already shaky sense of who she is and where she is going. When she meets t...
This was a fairly disappointing read for me, because I was very impressed with The Land Of Laughs. In a lot of ways, Voice Of Our Shadow mimics the format of that book; the first half to two-thirds of each book tries to pass itself of as "literary fiction," only introducing genre elements toward...
I do like Jonathan Carroll's voice. He creates some very real and visceral scenery and some of his witticisms are of a Vonnegut caliber. In short bursts, he uses words to great effect. But the larger story, well that's something else. For those of you that are Carroll fans and asked me to read mo...
3 StarsI discovered this author while doing my usual Goodreads stalking. And he fit my current criteria for a favorable reading experience: magic realism, adult (adult meaning not YA, not adult meaning porn), his books can be found at my local library, and the themes of the book deal with somet...
It's rare these days that a book "has me from hello" (to paraphrase a cheesy line from a *urp* Tom Cruise movie), but this one did. Check out the first two paragraphs: "Never buy yellow clothes or cheap leather. That's my credo and there are more. Know what I like to see? People killing themselv...
Mixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide, a ...
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. The day after we met, Maris York told me I had ...
To her surprise, Kaspar’s lovely dog D Train and his blond pal Kos were sitting side by side on the steps leading up to the small front porch, looking like two old philosophers watching the world go by. She remembered the last time she’d seen these two: Kos had just gobbled up the udesh and no on...
After I introduced them, he went to get more chairs. "Hi, Johnny." "Hello. I don't know you." "Well, I used to know you. This is my friend Veronica." "Hello, Veronica. You have hair like the woman in the Clairol ad." She smiled and moved to shake his hand. His first reaction was to pull back. The...
He loved watches but most especially this one. However he had nowhere near the kind of money to spend on something as wonderfully frivolous and unnecessary as an almost ten grand wristwatch. It was a nice unrealistic dream, but one he returned to often. Whatever was in this package was probably s...