Ombria in Shadow27 reviews Patricia A. McKillip Ace Trade, 2003 poetic romp + good read Ombria in Shadow is a great book. Patricia McKillip's true conquest is one of language. It took me two chapters to really find a groove with the reading, but once I did, the book wasn't long enough. I kept wanting the chapters to be longer, I kept wanting to spend more time with the characters. For ...             The Anubis Gates93 reviews Tim Powers Ace Trade, 1997 Gate me back to Haworth! + Powerful Tim(e) Travel + It doesnt get better than clowns on stilts + Highly Descriptive Page Turner             Mythago Wood38 reviews Robert Holdstock Orb Books, 2003 Top-tier Contribution to Fantasy Literature + I love Holdstock Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood is an underappreciated, yet significant contribution to the fantasy genre in many ways. To start out with, the work is well written and conveys a dark and mystical mood in a forest setting. Also the plot of Mythago Wood is anything but formulaic; nevertheless, the ...             The Wandering Fire (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 2)25 reviews Guy Gavriel Kay Roc Trade, 2001 And more.... + Super Reader + A good read I remember the first time I read this series. It took me four days (it would have taken three, but there was a delay in getting the last two from a friend). I was moved more deeply than any other work in fantasy I had read. I remember staying up until 6 AM (I was in theater at the time) reading ...             The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 1)144 reviews Guy Gavriel Kay Roc Trade, 2001 Super Reader A Canadian academic tells a small group of students that is a bit more than they thought he is. He lets them know he is a mage from another world, and offers them the chance to journey with him back to this place, for a celebration. Dave, one of their number, is a little suspicious and breaks ...             Tea with the Black Dragon32 reviews R. A. MacAvoy e-reads.com, 2001 Oolong tea + "Dragons are not social by nature. (I am the exception.)" + Tea With the Black Dragon + Style without substance             The Witches of Eastwick22 reviews John Updike Ballantine Books, 1996 Creative use of "witch-has-sex-with-devil" stereotype. + I loved it... but not in the way I thought + Stellar in places, but loses its initial luster partway through I quite like the film and thought the book would be similar. The book is in fact much better than the film. I love Updike's modernisation of historical stereotypes of witches and witchcraft - maleficium, familiars, witches' marks, the devil. I love its historical period that is so obvious, yes not ...             Replay301 reviews Ken Grimwood Harper Paperbacks, 1998 Ken Grimwood... Thank You... + Replay will be read again and again + Replay, reread and revisited + Provocative and thought-producing, worth a re-read             The Day of Creation: A Novel7 reviews J. G. Ballard Picador, 2002 A delirious psychological odyssey... Ballard's 1987 novel "The Day of Creation" is a sinuous odyssey through a surrealized Africa drunk on the potential of Western technology. Ballard's narrative voice is rich and engaging, the fluctuating exterior and interior landscape rendered with delirious conviction. "The Day of Creation" reads ...             The Digging Leviathan4 reviews James P. Blaylock Babbage Press, 2002 First of a new style of literature + A must-read! + highly recommended + A DELIRIOUS LITERARY FANTASY             The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 3)47 reviews Guy Gavriel Kay Roc Trade, 2001 A good piece of entertainment + Stunning + Super Reader + Solid finish + Appreciation of a great tale             Little, Big117 reviews John Crowley Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Poetic diversion + "Besides cats, there was the dog Spark." + This may well be my favorite book of all time To be fair, this book is not for everyone. In rapt affection, i read passages to my friend, and he balked at the superfluous language. He is a man who enjoys concise, dense language full of references that would make Pound proud. He doesn't read poetry, or like language for the sake of language. ...             Ombria in Shadow27 reviews Patricia A. McKillip Ace Trade, 2003 poetic romp + good read Ombria in Shadow is a great book. Patricia McKillip's true conquest is one of language. It took me two chapters to really find a groove with the reading, but once I did, the book wasn't long enough. I kept wanting the chapters to be longer, I kept wanting to spend more time with the characters. For ...             Tea with the Black Dragon32 reviews R. A. MacAvoy e-reads.com, 2001 Oolong tea + "Dragons are not social by nature. (I am the exception.)" + Tea With the Black Dragon + Style without substance             The Summer Tree (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 1)144 reviews Guy Gavriel Kay Roc Trade, 2001 Super Reader A Canadian academic tells a small group of students that is a bit more than they thought he is. He lets them know he is a mage from another world, and offers them the chance to journey with him back to this place, for a celebration. Dave, one of their number, is a little suspicious and breaks ...             The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry, Book 3)47 reviews Guy Gavriel Kay Roc Trade, 2001 A good piece of entertainment + Stunning + Super Reader + Solid finish + Appreciation of a great tale             The Anubis Gates93 reviews Tim Powers Ace Trade, 1997 Gate me back to Haworth! + Powerful Tim(e) Travel + It doesnt get better than clowns on stilts + Highly Descriptive Page Turner             The Day of Creation: A Novel7 reviews J. G. Ballard Picador, 2002 A delirious psychological odyssey... Ballard's 1987 novel "The Day of Creation" is a sinuous odyssey through a surrealized Africa drunk on the potential of Western technology. Ballard's narrative voice is rich and engaging, the fluctuating exterior and interior landscape rendered with delirious conviction. "The Day of Creation" reads ...             Mythago Wood38 reviews Robert Holdstock Orb Books, 2003 Top-tier Contribution to Fantasy Literature + I love Holdstock Robert Holdstock's Mythago Wood is an underappreciated, yet significant contribution to the fantasy genre in many ways. To start out with, the work is well written and conveys a dark and mystical mood in a forest setting. Also the plot of Mythago Wood is anything but formulaic; nevertheless, the ...             The Witches of Eastwick22 reviews John Updike Ballantine Books, 1996 Creative use of "witch-has-sex-with-devil" stereotype. + I loved it... but not in the way I thought + Stellar in places, but loses its initial luster partway through I quite like the film and thought the book would be similar. The book is in fact much better than the film. I love Updike's modernisation of historical stereotypes of witches and witchcraft - maleficium, familiars, witches' marks, the devil. I love its historical period that is so obvious, yes not ...