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John Crowley (1) (1942–)

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John Crowley was a recipient of the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters Award for Literature. He lives in the hills above the Connecticut River in northern Massachusetts with his wife & twin daughters. (Bowker Author Biography)
Image credit: Photo by Zoe Crowley

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Little, Big (1981) 4,168 kappaletta
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Daemonomania (2000) 536 kappaletta
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Beasts (1976) 467 kappaletta
The Deep (1975) 402 kappaletta
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Novelty: Four Stories (1989) 199 kappaletta
Four Freedoms (2009) 182 kappaletta

Associated Works

Naked City (2011) — Avustaja — 635 kappaletta
Black Swan, White Raven (1997) — Avustaja — 584 kappaletta
The Science Fiction Century (1997) — Avustaja — 529 kappaletta
Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008) — Avustaja — 458 kappaletta
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Avustaja — 457 kappaletta
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) — Avustaja — 450 kappaletta
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016) — Avustaja — 411 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990) — Avustaja — 280 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986) — Avustaja — 225 kappaletta
Magicats! (1939) — Avustaja — 217 kappaletta
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) — Avustaja — 215 kappaletta
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1939) — Avustaja — 206 kappaletta
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Avustaja — 197 kappaletta
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories (2018) — Avustaja — 165 kappaletta
The Judges of the Secret Court (2011) — Johdanto, eräät painokset159 kappaletta
Interfaces (1980) — Avustaja — 155 kappaletta
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991) — Avustaja — 155 kappaletta
A Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Avustaja — 148 kappaletta
Future on Ice (1998) — Avustaja — 143 kappaletta
Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (1982) — Avustaja — 143 kappaletta
Shadows (1978) — Avustaja — 141 kappaletta
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (2008) — Avustaja — 104 kappaletta
Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror (1977) — Avustaja — 95 kappaletta
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Avustaja — 92 kappaletta
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 (1986) — Avustaja — 76 kappaletta
Nebula Awards 25 (1991) — Avustaja — 61 kappaletta
New Haven Noir (2017) — Avustaja — 45 kappaletta
Snake's Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley (2003) — Avustaja — 45 kappaletta
The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989) — Avustaja — 36 kappaletta
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 3 (1990) — Avustaja — 32 kappaletta
Omni Best Science Fiction Three (1993) — Avustaja — 27 kappaletta
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2020 Edition (2020) — Avustaja — 21 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 33 • February 2013 (2013) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
Conjunctions: 67, Other Aliens (2016) — Avustaja — 14 kappaletta
Spirits Unwrapped (2019) — Avustaja — 8 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 18 • November 2011 (2011) — Avustaja — 7 kappaletta
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 96 • May 2018 (2018) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta

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Little, Big 25th Anniversary Edition, Fine Press Forum (elokuu 2023)
Little, Big, Hogwarts Express (huhtikuu 2013)
Fantasy Novel, Name that Book (lokakuuta 2010)

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I really liked this. It had some pretty cool ideas for post-apocalypse societies, but I'll admit, I liked the truthful speakers the best. I got a little bored and distracted at Dr. Boots' List, which is a shame, because it ties in really well with the main story. I hope I didn't miss anything because of it. I very much liked the idea of Path, and the Filing System, and I was intrigued by the League of women. Quite interesting!
 
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zjakkelien | 14 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 2, 2024 |
It took me forever to get through this book. It has sleep dust embedded throughout its pages, and apparently they’ve invented a release mechanism that works even with e-books. Seriously, I don’t think there was a single session where I sat down to read this book during the day and didn’t fall asleep at some point before standing back up, and I rarely take mid-day naps. Likewise, when I read it before bed, I usually ended up going to sleep earlier than I normally would. So… I guess that’s the main thing I got out of this book. I’m now very well rested?

The story revolves around a large and very convoluted family, most of whom live in or around a large and very convoluted house in the middle of nowhere. There's some overlap with the fairy realm there, so that some family members are able to see them, although others can’t, and most lose the ability as they get older.

My Kindle edition had a family tree – at the very end of the book, with no reference to it in the table of contents that might have clued me in to its existence. By the time I saw it, it was too late to do me much good. The most critical people were pretty easy to keep track of though, and since I was reading on the Kindle I was able to search and find prior references if I forgot who someone was, so I did ok without the tree. In the earlier parts of the book, it jumps back and forth in the timeline quite a bit and introduces a large number of characters, but this wasn’t the part I disliked. It felt a little confusing at times, but I was able to follow it and the setting seemed really interesting, so I’d looked forward to learning where everything was going.

The further I got into the book, the less I liked it. The timeline got more linear and the character focus narrowed, but the story became more nebulous. It became more metaphorical and less logical, and there were long sequences where the author wrote about things happening to characters, except that apparently those things weren’t actually happening, or at least not in the way the characters thought they were, to the point that sometimes I was confused about what was “real” in the context of the book and what wasn’t. And then you have people becoming fish, birds, and trees? It probably didn’t help that, by this point, I was in a perpetually sleepy haze myself whenever I read the book. Reading this made me feel like what I imagine it would feel like to be on drugs, and I’ve never enjoyed books that give me that sensation.

The writing style is more literary I guess, with some odd ways of phrasing things that occasionally required me to re-read a sentence. I wouldn’t call this a funny book, but there were times it made me burst out in surprised laughter because something unexpectedly struck me funny, even toward the end when I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. Sometimes I wasn’t even sure if the things that made me laugh were supposed to be funny. It’s possible I might have been delirious. The ending was as unsatisfying as I expected it to be by the time I finally reached it. This book I think is more about style and atmosphere, but the story itself lacked enough substance for me to sink my teeth into.

I’m rating this at 2.5 stars and rounding down to 2 because I think I would have preferred less sleep.
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YouKneeK | 113 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Sep 9, 2023 |
If this book had been broken down into a series of novellas, I would have loved almost half of them

There are some magnificently beautiful stories in this book, and I really wanted to love it. There are just as many that I found very boring and charmless. If I enjoy a book enough, a messy ending is generally forgiven. But here, 80 pages from the end my feelings toward this novel were still evenly split love/hate, and then things went downhill for the remainder.

Loose ends, plot-holes, purposeless characters taking up chapter after chapter in an already long tale, and suprisingly little magic for a book about fairies and enchantments.

Still, read it for the good bits.
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Littlecatbird | 113 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 7, 2023 |
Interesting and weird. The idea cannot support the novel.
 
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markm2315 | 21 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jul 1, 2023 |

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