Little Review
Aug. 2nd, 2007 10:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluegargantuaHi,
So I just finshed reading Little, Big by John Crowley. This is one of those books that my more widely-read friends have gone, "You haven't read it? OMG it's fantastic you should read it!". Much like Foucault's Pendulum. What can I say? There are a lot of books out there.
Anyway. Little, Big.
This is a fantastic book. You should read it. But you should also read it when you think "now is the time to read it" because otherwise it won't quite be the right time to read it and you'll miss out. But when you think it's time to read it, it is and it'll be great. It's partially about a large, extended family and their rambling, otherworldly house, it's partially about spirits and fairies and magic, it's partly about New York and America, it's mostly about something else entirely. Just pick it up, turn it over a few times and when you think, "maybe now I should read it", you should. And you'll be happy you did.
later
Tom
So I just finshed reading Little, Big by John Crowley. This is one of those books that my more widely-read friends have gone, "You haven't read it? OMG it's fantastic you should read it!". Much like Foucault's Pendulum. What can I say? There are a lot of books out there.
Anyway. Little, Big.
This is a fantastic book. You should read it. But you should also read it when you think "now is the time to read it" because otherwise it won't quite be the right time to read it and you'll miss out. But when you think it's time to read it, it is and it'll be great. It's partially about a large, extended family and their rambling, otherworldly house, it's partially about spirits and fairies and magic, it's partly about New York and America, it's mostly about something else entirely. Just pick it up, turn it over a few times and when you think, "maybe now I should read it", you should. And you'll be happy you did.
later
Tom
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 02:33 pm (UTC)It's a library book. We might want a copy though.
Tom
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 02:41 pm (UTC)Yep.
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Date: 2007-08-02 02:42 pm (UTC)Perhaps it's an anniversary present you don't know about?
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Date: 2007-08-02 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 03:25 pm (UTC)Don't look too hard.
love,
Tom
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Date: 2007-08-02 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 03:36 pm (UTC)Well except its not out yet and it is rather expensive.
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Date: 2007-08-02 03:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-02 07:14 pm (UTC)If you like I have lots of other Crowley I can loan you. This is one of his best, but not his only good novel by a long shot.