Re: questions...
David Schrimpf (david@cybermail.net)
Mon, 01 Jun 1998 13:27:08 -0800
J J R said:
> You're gonna be swamped with response to this one. I like particularly
> imaginative and/or passionate Stuff--magical realism, etc.--so my
> suggestions are guided by those prefences.
I'm just about finishing up _One Hundred Years of Solitude_. I started =
reading
it because of all the mentions it gets on this list and there are a lot of
things (like the fact that there are about 30 characters sharing TWO =
different
names... ugh) I don't like about it but it's been entertaining enough to =
at
least keep my interest all the way through.
Anyway, I'm wondering if anyone else has read _Silverlock_ by John Myers =
Myers.
It's great fun to read. It's about a guy who somehow gets sucked into some =
kind
of other dimension or something (it doesn't say that, but that's my
explanation) and he goes on sort of a journey and runs into a whole bunch =
of
characters from other novels/stories (Moby Dick, Robin Hood, etc.). The =
more
you've read, the more characters you'll recognize and the more fun you'll =
have.
I recognized relatively few characters and still enjoyed it a lot because =
the
story and the writing are very good in themselves.
.
- David Schrimpf
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