Particularize Books In Favor Of Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2)
| Original Title: | Some Other Place. The Right Place. |
| ISBN: | 1592640710 (ISBN13: 9781592640713) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Stay More #2 |
| Characters: | Diana Stoving, Day Whittacker, Daniel Lyam Montross |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Donald Harington
Paperback | Pages: 500 pages Rating: 3.98 | 245 Users | 31 Reviews
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long live donald harington (12/22/35 - 11/07/09) yeah, i just found out. that's two of my favorites in as many years. why can't i fall in love with robots?? donald harington was by far the most under-appreciated author i have ever championed. and his relative obscurity is both puzzling and offensive to me. what are people reading, if not this? and why? what's the point? harington was the most effortless storyteller i have ever read. he created an entire town and filled it up with characters that were interesting and astonishing and full of life and depth and reality and magic. his writing never had any vanity to it - it seemed he was writing for the sheer joy of creating these people and directing their lives and presenting them the way kids do when they play with dolls. i have never been bored reading a harington book. i have never glossed over a descriptive passage, i have never wished he would wrap it up. his writing is enchanting - it is pulsating with vitality and novelty and specialness- and everything builds and reflects and echoes and even when he would take risks to amplify the magic or the postmodern flourishes, i never felt jarred or impatient. and i'm coming across as cliched and that is the last thing a man like this deserves. but you understand, i am not mourning one man; i am mourning an entire town. i am mourning characters i have fallen in love with over the course of fifteen books - all of stay more has fallen into a hole in the ground, and because he once made me an honorary citizen, i'm in there as well. and i'm sitting here bawling and listening to warren zevon and janis ian and this leonard cohen song i haven't been able to listen to in ten years because it made me cry too hard, because i'm already sad, right?? and i'm just a nightmare mess over this. maybe i will actually review the book-part tomorrow. for now - this is just a sorrowful eulogy.on second thought - no - you can read the books yourselves - you don't need me to potentially ruin it. go - enjoy.
Details About Books Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2)
| Title | : | Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2) |
| Author | : | Donald Harington |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 500 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 2004 by Toby Press (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction |
Rating About Books Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2)
Ratings: 3.98 From 245 Users | 31 ReviewsAssess About Books Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2)
I waded through this book for weeks, and it was gorgeous. Perhaps the most interesting novel I've ever read about relationships - expectations, disappointments, satisfaction and understanding . . two holes in the outhouse is the way to go.This book was well written. Broken into four movements each of which was written in a unique narrator style that were executed with percision few writers are able to do well. That said I wanted to stop reading it after the second movement. I'm glad I persisted as the third and fourth movement really shine and tie together into the Stay More series. If you pick it up, don't get discouraged as the ending is amazing.
Just re read it in November. Better than I remembered. Sometimes a book like this can be viewed so differently after you have lived a few decades.
wow. This was so seriously GOOD. like Haruki Marukami only warmly Arkansas and 70s. This deserves way more recognition and fame. I don't understand the obscurity.
Started this the other day but it is slow going for me. I'm going to stick with it because it has gotten so many good reviews but so far I'm not loving it.Still not grabbing me. Putting it aside for awhile.
It is so refreshing to read something unlike anything else you have ever read. It is so rare to read something unlike anything you have ever read. No description of plot or character can adequately encourage you to read this book. Hell, I wasn't enthused about reading it based on the cover and the presumed story line. Now I am literally jealous of you folks out there who get to read this for the first time because I will never have that experience again. How can I read this knowing the story
A strange read, although enjoyable. Like the first book in the series, there is a modernist, almost post modern approach. So the first section has passages seemingly narrated by the three main protagonists in turn, although one is within another, but there is another narrator occasionally appearing. The second section is more directly narrated from a journal. The third is a sequence of poems, possibly written by a ghost. In the final section, the narrator from the first section becomes a leading
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