I've seen some reviews of other Hendrix novels--and I worked at an audiobook that recorded Horrorstör--and I was expecting more zaniness than there was in How to Sell a Haunted House. It's not a bad book, just more conventional and less ... tongue in cheek, I guess, than I was expecting. Hope that helps.
I read it in college, in a context that didn't feel so much like the goose being made into pate foie gras, which probably has a lot to do with why i enjoyed it then. I think there are some novels that change a lot if you (re)read them at different ages, and I agree Gatsby is one.
Yeah, it's really hard to talk about what Clarke's doing in Piranesi without spoiling it. I don't think referencing the unreliable narrator is too bad. OTOH, I apparently missed every single one of those Easter eggs.
(That subset of Fantasy isn't really my jam, though.)
This might be one of my favorite books of all time.
There are some very direct and strong allusions to Narnia, basically to the point of making an identification of the normal world of the book being the same as the normal world of the Narnia stories, through the framing in Magician's Nephew (she did the same thing in Strange & Mr. Norrel, in the opposite direction chronologically and more subtly). She is a huge, huge C. S. Lewis fan.I read it in college, in a context that didn't feel so much like the goose being made into pate foie gras, which probably has a lot to do with why i enjoyed it then. I think there are some novels that change a lot if you (re)read them at different ages, and I agree Gatsby is one.
Yeah, it's really hard to talk about what Clarke's doing in Piranesi without spoiling it. I don't think referencing the unreliable narrator is too bad. OTOH, I apparently missed every single one of those Easter eggs.
I am not particularly a Lewis fan, so I missed that--though I think I did pick up on some similarities in the worlds between the books. Of course, it's been more than a decade since I've read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, so I might have hallucinated it ...
I spent too much time recording audiobooks to be able to listen to them for pleasure. I vaguely envy people who can, sometimes, but--as you might have picked up on--I read really quickly.
I finished up the Iliad last week and I’m now reading a collection, the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023 (stories published in 2022). It’s a spectacular series that started in 2015. Every volume has a few stories that knock my socks off.
I do not hear the music, when it comes to Hendrix. But plenty of others do. It could just be me.
Who’s the editor(s) on that one?
The series editor is John Joseph Adams. He selects 80 contenders and passes them on to a different guest editor each year to narrow it down to the best 20. This year the guest editor is R.F. Kuang, whose work I don’t know.
