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Posted 2016-01-26 3:14 AM (#12497 - in reply to #12492)
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dustydigger - 2016-01-25 7:39 AM I may try this later in the year. People may find some interesting books in the Slipstream section of resources. Also almost anything by Jonathan Carroll! lol

You're welcome anytime - I KNOW you never have enough books to read on your plate... 

Thanks for the Slipstream tip!  Magic Realism is another helpful category, and here's an interesting list of magic realism books .  Another fruitful source is translated books, many of which are interesting "literary" works.

As to Jonathan Carroll. by "lol", do you mean Land of Laughs?     If so, it's one of the only above average books he's written (Voice of Our Shadow was the other, both of which I very much recommend).  I swear I don't know why I keep reading him - his best work was his first two novels, written more than thirty years ago.  That sounds a little harsh, but I was pretty frustrated by his most recent novel, Bathing the Lion - he seems to keep rehashing the same material, and his writing has, if anything, regressed over the years.


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