In most cases -- certainly the anubis gates, the stress of her regard, declare, three days to never, and the fisher king trilog...  Read More

In most cases -- certainly the anubis gates, the stress of her regard, declare, three days to never, and the fisher king trilogy -- the power and imagination contained in his fiction has forced me to call into question my own meager scribblings, for no matter how hard i've tried i can't seem to replicate (not "copy" but rather "achieve for myself") the pure self-assurance and what i might call the "cosmic quality" of his ought-to-be patented approach to "secret history" and modern north american magic realism.  Read Less

The "device" is creepy and reminiscent of some of last call's folk magic, and achieves a strange poignancy in the brief time we...  Read More

The "device" is creepy and reminiscent of some of last call's folk magic, and achieves a strange poignancy in the brief time we are exposed to it.  Read Less

Wedding this version of powers folk magic to not only the film world, but film itself, is reminiscent of his novel three days t...  Read More

Wedding this version of powers folk magic to not only the film world, but film itself, is reminiscent of his novel three days to never, and makes one wish for a full novel rather than this short novella, which brevity is the only "flaw" i'd be hard-pressed to identify.  Read Less

I've nothing against traditional fantasy, but i always find myself recharged and reinvigorated after surreptitiously "touching"...  Read More

I've nothing against traditional fantasy, but i always find myself recharged and reinvigorated after surreptitiously "touching" a bit of the author's imagination transmitted through deceptively simple narrative.  Read Less