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John Crowley (1) (1942–)

Autor/a de Little, Big

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Sobre l'autor

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)
Crèdit de la imatge: Photo by Zoe Crowley

Sèrie

Obres de John Crowley

Little, Big (1981) 4,110 exemplars
Aegypt (1987) 1,137 exemplars
Engine Summer (1979) 699 exemplars
Love & Sleep (1994) 557 exemplars
Daemonomania (2000) 534 exemplars
The Translator (2002) 472 exemplars
Beasts (1976) 461 exemplars
The Deep (1975) 397 exemplars
Endless Things (2007) 390 exemplars
Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr (2017) 319 exemplars
Novelty: Four Stories (1989) 199 exemplars
Four Freedoms (2009) 181 exemplars

Obres associades

Naked City (2011) — Col·laborador — 616 exemplars
Black Swan, White Raven (1997) — Col·laborador — 578 exemplars
The Science Fiction Century (1997) — Col·laborador — 525 exemplars
Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology (2008) — Col·laborador — 447 exemplars
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Col·laborador — 443 exemplars
Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century (2001) — Col·laborador — 438 exemplars
The Big Book of Science Fiction (2016) — Col·laborador — 400 exemplars
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005) — Col·laborador — 359 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990) — Col·laborador — 276 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Col·laborador — 253 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourteenth Annual Collection (2001) — Col·laborador — 248 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction: Third Annual Collection (1986) — Col·laborador — 223 exemplars
Magicats! (1939) — Col·laborador — 214 exemplars
Tails of Wonder and Imagination: Cat Stories (2010) — Col·laborador — 210 exemplars
Modern Classics of Fantasy (1939) — Col·laborador — 204 exemplars
Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists (2002) — Col·laborador — 197 exemplars
The Book of Magic: A Collection of Stories (2018) — Col·laborador — 157 exemplars
The Judges of the Secret Court (2011) — Introducció, algunes edicions155 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection (1991) — Col·laborador — 155 exemplars
Interfaces (1980) — Col·laborador — 154 exemplars
A Science Fiction Omnibus (1973) — Col·laborador — 143 exemplars
Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (1982) — Col·laborador — 143 exemplars
Future on Ice (1998) — Col·laborador — 142 exemplars
Shadows (1978) — Col·laborador — 136 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New SF (2008) — Col·laborador — 103 exemplars
Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror (1977) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Col·laborador — 91 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction of the Year #15 (1986) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
Nebula Awards 25 (1991) — Col·laborador — 61 exemplars
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Thirteen (2019) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
New Haven Noir (2017) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Snake's Hands: The Fiction of John Crowley (2003) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
The Seventh Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989) — Col·laborador — 35 exemplars
The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 3 (1990) — Col·laborador — 32 exemplars
Omni Best Science Fiction Three (1993) — Col·laborador — 26 exemplars
Lapham's Quarterly - The Future: Volume IV, Number 4, Fall 2011 (2011) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2020 Edition (2020) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Conjunctions: 67, Other Aliens (2016) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 33 • February 2013 (2013) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Embrace the Mutation: Fiction Inspired by the Art of J. K. Potter (2002) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 18 • November 2011 (2011) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Spirits Unwrapped (2019) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 96 • May 2018 (2018) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars

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Little, Big 25th Anniversary Edition a Fine Press Forum (agost 16)
Little, Big a Hogwarts Express (abril 2013)
Fantasy Novel a Name that Book (octubre 2010)

Ressenyes

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 | Hi ha 112 ressenyes més | 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 | Hi ha 112 ressenyes més | Jul 7, 2023 |
Interesting and weird. The idea cannot support the novel.
 
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markm2315 | Hi ha 21 ressenyes més | Jul 1, 2023 |
The protagonist of Ka is the corvid Dar Oakley, and the narrator is a nameless man to whom the bird has told his stories, a string of recollected Crow lives over the entirety of human history. The first part is set in prehistoric Europe and the second in the Middle Ages. Part three has two major arcs: one among Native Americans prior to colonization, and another during and after the US Civil War. The final part of the novel returns to the context of the narrator in "the Ruins of Ymr," a near-future setting of social and ecological decay.

The pace throughout is slow and thoughtful, caught between the divergent perceptions and expressions of Person and Crow. There are multiple visionary episodes. As a whole, the book contemplates the incomprehension of memory and mortality, along with the value of story itself.
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paradoxosalpha | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Apr 23, 2023 |

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Membres
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Preferit
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