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Title: The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll ISBN: 0-312-87243-7 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 04 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful, bewildering experience
Comment: I just finished The Marriage of Sticks by Jonathan Carroll this morning, and it was a wonderful, bewildering experience. Reading Carroll is like talking to that exciting friend of yours; you know the one, the person that makes you go places you wouldn't normally go, see things you wouldn't normally see, talk to people you would normally stare at quietly from across the room. If you EVER see a book by Jonathan Carroll on the bookshelves (he's typically listed in the Literature section, alongside Don De Lillo and Chinua Achebe and J.G. Ballard and Kurt Vonnegut and those fortunate enough to have escaped genre classification), grab it and don't let go. His books are very hard to find nowadays, and it's a rare treat to see one in a store. Tor, lovely book publisher that they are, have taken to reprinting some of his earlier books in a trade paperback, and The Marriage of Sticks is one of them, though it only came out a few years ago. This is Carroll's second-to-latest novel, it is the most similar to The Wooden Sea, in respect to style and technique and storytellingness. And characterization. Carroll's characters simply leap off the page and whisper their story in your ear. He has the phenomenal ability of drawing you into the story, like a big brother at a campfire. Carroll's books are to be treasured, and to be snagged wherever you can manage to find a copy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read him and change the way you see life
Comment: There are writers we read for amusement, to learn something, or simply to keep our brains in motion. But there are a rare few who change everything. Jonathan Carroll's books change the way we see the world. THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS makes you re-think the way you live your life, the way you treat others, the way you perceive things. It is a book to re-read and treasure for years. What is it about? A woman who learns who she really is and along the way realizes too well that is definitely not who she wants to be. Is there a satisfying ending, as some people have complained about Carroll's books in the past? There is an ending that will make your mouth drop open and as far as I'm concerned, that is the greatest reward of reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Provocative Entertainment
Comment: As someone recently bit by the Carroll bug, I may not be the most impartial critic. Still I found this book was very enjoyable. I understand the swiftly shifting underlying cosmology of the novel will lose many readers. But it is this which drew me in deeper. Yes, the characters may seem alittle too privledged to connect with some but the underpinnings are sound. I like the fact that while Miranda is sympathetic that when the revelation about her character comes we are not unaware of her personal flaws up to this point. The key to much of the characterization is though we like the characters, we can see their shortcomings. How often do you see that?!
Also having read The Wooden Sea first, I was thrilled to see Frannie again. It should be noted that Kissing The Beehive, this novel, and The Wooden Sea make a rather discrete trilogy of novels. While indvidual stories, they certainly lend a certain resonance to each other.
So if you want something that entertains and provokes thought, you can't go wrong with Carroll. Not the best place to start - I read Sleeping in Flame first but would recommend The Wooden Sea as a good place to start - but still very good. Then again just pick one and jump in. Well worth the time.
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Title: The Wooden Sea : A Novel by Jonathan Carroll ISBN: 0765300133 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 09 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Bones of the Moon by Jonathan Carroll ISBN: 0312873123 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 03 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Land of Laughs : A Novel by Jonathan Carroll ISBN: 0312873115 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll ISBN: 0679727779 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 July, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: White Apples by Jonathan Carroll ISBN: 0765304015 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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