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This was one of the most spellbinding books of my childhood (I was convinced I alone could solve the mystery of the elusive Harris Burdick), and there were no words to describe how happy I was to see that such wonderful writers had created stories to go along with the images that have fired the imaginations of big and little readers for decades. These stories are haunting, funny, tear-jerking and utterly wonderful and I know will treasure this book for years and years to come.
One of the most beautiful and haunting books I have ever read. I loved all of Peter Carey's novels, but this one is sheer magic. He has the ability to take the most common and mundane parts of life--a deck of cards, some seaweed, a piece of glass, and turn it into a fragment of a dream, full of life and color and a strange beauty. Even the main characters, who are the most awkward of outsiders, are wonderfully complex and thoroughly, terribly lovable. This book made me laugh, broke my heart, put it back together again, completely changed the way I read fiction. I couldn't recommend it more highly.
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While I did enjoy the first book in Johannes Cabal's adventures slightly more than this one, it is one of the best sequels I've read in some time. Full of humor, sarcasm and Jonathan Howard's own wild brand of imagination, not to mention a few scenes of surprising tenderness. The ending provides and ideal jumping-off point for the third book due out sometime in 2012, and the Epilogue is pure, ridiculous genius. This is absolute a series worth reading for any fan of the Doctor Who brand of Sci-Fi, steampunk or locked-room mysteries, as this book is a wonderful tribute--and brilliant parody--of each of these genres.
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The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: Fourteen Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg
Macardle90, January 1, 2012
This was one of the most spellbinding books of my childhood (I was convinced I alone could solve the mystery of the elusive Harris Burdick), and there were no words to describe how happy I was to see that such wonderful writers had created stories to go along with the images that have fired the imaginations of big and little readers for decades. These stories are haunting, funny, tear-jerking and utterly wonderful and I know will treasure this book for years and years to come.Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Macardle90, September 23, 2011
One of the most beautiful and haunting books I have ever read. I loved all of Peter Carey's novels, but this one is sheer magic. He has the ability to take the most common and mundane parts of life--a deck of cards, some seaweed, a piece of glass, and turn it into a fragment of a dream, full of life and color and a strange beauty. Even the main characters, who are the most awkward of outsiders, are wonderfully complex and thoroughly, terribly lovable. This book made me laugh, broke my heart, put it back together again, completely changed the way I read fiction. I couldn't recommend it more highly.(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)
Johannes Cabal the Detective by Jonathan L. Howard
Macardle90, September 1, 2011
While I did enjoy the first book in Johannes Cabal's adventures slightly more than this one, it is one of the best sequels I've read in some time. Full of humor, sarcasm and Jonathan Howard's own wild brand of imagination, not to mention a few scenes of surprising tenderness. The ending provides and ideal jumping-off point for the third book due out sometime in 2012, and the Epilogue is pure, ridiculous genius. This is absolute a series worth reading for any fan of the Doctor Who brand of Sci-Fi, steampunk or locked-room mysteries, as this book is a wonderful tribute--and brilliant parody--of each of these genres.