Jonathan Carroll

[maribou]

If you haven't read anything by him, go find something. And then read it.
He reduces me to incoherence.
All I can do at the moment is babble, "Jonathan Carroll Jonathan Carroll Jonathan Carroll" over and over again and tell people to go read him.
I'd already read one of his books, but I sort of conveniently forgot how good it was to make the experience of reading-each-one-of-his-books-for-the-first-time last longer.
Today I read my second one and started my third.
No doubt I'll finish the 3rd one by Saturday...
then I'll probably conveniently forget again...
Except now I've written it down!

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just discovered carroll

[(Anonymous)]

he got recommended while on a book quest for the heyoka, so i found Kissing the Beehive at the library. much enjoyed. will be going after the rest soon.

any other book recommendations?

snarl

gnarl.net

Re: just discovered carroll

[maribou]

Hrm. Charles de Lint, Connie Willis. Kage Baker. Sage Walker. Francesca Lia Block. Win Blevins (Stone Song, the Rock Child, RavenShadow). That pretty much covers the ones that I think you guys would like, that are in some arcane way similar to Jonathan Carroll, that you have a shot of not having heard of. I mean, obviously, telling you to read John Crowley would be sort of unnecessary:).

Re: just discovered carroll

[(Anonymous)]

someone in the J carroll/j crowley/c de lint vein i've just discovered is Matt Ruff. Only read his first book, Fool On the Hill, and a very enjoyable read. it's got an automaton dragon.

finding books by unheard authors is damn difficult. thank god carroll's got a few books written.

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