I did (read a Winter's Tale ), a long time ago, and loved it. On the strength of that, I read Memoir from an Antproof Case when it came out and was disappointed.
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I would be there right now.
Simon ,'Objects In Space'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
-t - Oct 08, 2010 11:59:18 am PDT #12593 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
JZ - Oct 08, 2010 12:06:32 pm PDT #12594 of 28297
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
If you read Ellis Island, his early short story collection, you won't be disappointed, not even one tiny bit. And IIRC the novel A Soldier of the Great War is also very not-disappointing; it's not up to Winter's Tale or Ellis Island, but it's much more engaging than Memoir (which I started but had to abandon).
Scrappy - Oct 08, 2010 12:06:50 pm PDT #12595 of 28297
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
LOVE Winter's Tale.
Steph L. - Oct 08, 2010 12:08:45 pm PDT #12596 of 28297
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Those book shirts are tempting, but I already have Attack of Literacy (which I have been photographed wearing in many, many locales), the semi-colon (goodness, I never noticed what a little potbelly I have in that picture!), and El Vetica. I already have the wordnerd trifecta.
(I also now have Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman t-shirts. I can literally get my geek on almost every day of the week.)
-t - Oct 08, 2010 12:13:24 pm PDT #12597 of 28297
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I just looked at a synopsis of A Soldier of the Great War and I think I've read it, probably in between Winter's Tale and Antproof Case, so I must have liked it well enough to pick up the last one. Which I kind of wished I hadn't finished, it actually made me retroactively like his other books less, though I think I have finally gotten over that.
zuisa - Oct 08, 2010 12:13:27 pm PDT #12598 of 28297
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I will have to check out Ellis Island!! I haven't read anything else by him.
Do any of you know of books that are comparable in any way? Someone recommended "Little, Big" by John Crowley, which I also enjoyed, but nowhere near as much as I loved "Winter's Tale".
Scrappy - Oct 08, 2010 12:35:53 pm PDT #12599 of 28297
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
100 Years of Solitude? Master and Maragarita? Carter Beats the Devil? The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay?
JZ - Oct 08, 2010 12:44:54 pm PDT #12600 of 28297
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seconding Kavalier and Klay. There are also the YA novels of Joan Aiken, many (most?) of which are set in an almost perpetually wintry alternative-history Victorian/Edwardian England that at times feels like it must exist in the same universe as Lake of the Coheeries.
Anne W. - Oct 08, 2010 1:04:58 pm PDT #12601 of 28297
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I adore, adore, adore Winter's Tale. I re-read it every few years, usually waiting for a day when I'm nice and snowed-in.
DavidS - Oct 08, 2010 2:54:37 pm PDT #12602 of 28297
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Pearly Soames, now there's a villain. Mad for color, he was. Tucked up behind the zodiac in Grand Central Station.