LOVE Winter's Tale.
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
'Out Of Gas'
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."
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.
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.
Mala - Oct 09, 2010 3:26:05 am PDT #12603 of 28297
I loved Memoir from Antproof Case, but I remember that the first time I read it I didn't like it at first and stuck with it and it all came together and was lovely at the end. And so now if I re-read I remember how it came together for me.
Winter's Tale is one of my favorite books ever. A book I find comparable is Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
zuisa - Oct 09, 2010 7:10:50 am PDT #12604 of 28297
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
Thanks for the recommendations!! I will definitely look into them. Since I'm substitute teaching at the moment and the vast majority of the lesson plans I get left involve me doing absolutely nothing, I find myself with a LOT of time to read.
I'm also really glad you all like Winter's Tale!! I'm trying in vain to convince my mother to read it, but she has it in her head that reading books that are actually good is somehow more difficult than reading books that are bad.