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Summary: Beautiful Stuff
Review: This book is beautiful in so many ways. The story is crafted with care and perfection. The style is almost distant and yet at the same time you find yourself caught up in the world's it shows you. The characters are well drawn up, although I'll be the first to say that her husband was a tad to perfect and cardboard for my tastes. But every other character the story features feels real. The ending is what convinced me to buy it though, it is stunning--unexpected, and perfect. I was so moved by it that I bought the book, and I usualy don't buy books. Read this book--it is worth your time.
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Summary: Beautiful Stuff
Review: This book is beautiful in so many ways. The story is crafted with care and perfection. The style is almost distant and yet at the same time you find yourself caught up in the world's it shows you. The characters are well drawn up, although I'll be the first to say that her husband was a tad to perfect and cardboard for my tastes. But every other character the story features feels real. The ending is what convinced me to buy it though, it is stunning--unexpected, and perfect. I was so moved by it that I bought the book, and I usualy don't buy books. Read this book--it is worth your time.
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Summary: Absolutely Incredible!
Review: This book is definately my favorite! It is just so, so well written. When you read about the dreams, with the wooden mice and Sizzling Thumb, you'll feel like Carroll stole them from them from your own subconscious. And the strange, winding plot just pulls everything together so well. After reading Bones, I found myself falling asleep expectantly waiting for my own Rondua.
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Summary: Simply one of the greatest books in history
Review: This is a superb classic. One of the best books ever written.
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Summary: A thrilling dissolution of the line between fantasy/reality.
Review: This is truly an incredible book. Have you ever wondered if what you dreamed was real in some other world? Can you imagine the thrilling possibilities -- and the danger? If you are fascinated by the dissolution of the line between fantasy and reality, this book is a must-read. Cullen James' wonderful-yet-ordinary life takes a turn for the strange when she starts having dreams about a fantastic land called Rondua and a young boy named Pepsi. As the dreams become more vivid and commanding, Cullen learns that Pepsi is the child she aborted years ago. From that point on, the dreams weave themselves tighter and tighter into Cullen's waking life, until the two cannot be separated and survival in "reality" absolutely depends on success in Rondua.
Jonathan Carroll takes your weirdest mental flights of fancy and makes them real. Anything can happen, and nowhere is "safe".
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: This was my first exposure to Jonathon Carroll, and I must say that I'm impressed. I picked up the book because I'd heard or seen it mentioned in the same context as Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere and Lisa Goldstein's Dark Cities Underground. I loved both of those books and hoped to find similarities here. I wasn't dissapointed.
Bones of the Moon managed to be funny, sad and scary, all in a little over 200 pages. It was a quick read, perfect for a weekend escape. I found myself really liking the main character despite her flaws. The land of Rondua, her dreamworld, was charming and remarkably well imagined. John Carroll has written quite a few books, and I imagine they will become one of my staples over the next few months.
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Summary: Jonathon Carroll's Best Book
Review: To those of us familiar with Jonathon Carroll's work, we are never surprised when the authorial voice changes -- Carroll is remarkably capable. Here the story is told by a young woman, and the incredibly fine mix of "real" and imaginary worlds, as one shades into the other and back make a deep and strong impression. The imaginary world is impressively inventive, with a wealth of images and evocative names. The action and danger builds to a conclusion surprising and satisfying.
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Summary: Jonathon Carroll's Best Book
Review: To those of us familiar with Jonathon Carroll's work, we are never surprised when the authorial voice changes -- Carroll is remarkably capable. Here the story is told by a young woman, and the incredibly fine mix of "real" and imaginary worlds, as one shades into the other and back make a deep and strong impression. The imaginary world is impressively inventive, with a wealth of images and evocative names. The action and danger builds to a conclusion surprising and satisfying.
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Summary: This book blows chunks.
Review: What a skunky book! The protagonist's dream world, in which much of the crucial action takes place, lacks a sense of wonder and mystery. Carroll completely fails to evoke a dream-like quality. In addition, in a book about the consequences of one's personal behavior, the protagonist takes risks with her marriage that have absolutely no repurcussions for her. Why do the only black characters in the book happen to be the only characters who speak with phonetic dialect? Why is the book's only gay character type-cast as comic relief? Why does the business with the axe boy come across as bad horror novel contrivance? Why do people love this book so much?
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