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Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
bookshelves: teh-brillianz, fantasy, re-visit-2014, winter-20132014, published-1983, paper-read, fraudio, new-york, north-americas, picaresque, amusing, adventure, architecture, art-forms, epic-proportions, eye-scorcher, love, magical-realism, period-piece
Read from January 01, 1992 to January 23, 2014
woot - magical realism has a new benchmark in my humble opinion! This is superb stuff, all the characters are so fully realised.
Revisit via audio before the film comes out 14th Feb 2014 and this is narrated by Oliver Wyman. Given the unusually cold weather, dubbed artic vortex, that is subsuming the north americas at this time one could think, at a stretch, that this is a marketing ploy by the movie house sponsor.
“The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.”
Film trailer
Film theme tune is 'Wings' by Birdy
The song I would prefer because I'm an Essex fan since first row, west end opening night of Jesus Christ, Superstar
The inscription on the monument refers to the bridge as the "eternal rainbow", a simile used by Jackson Mead.
It is strange having Golem & Jinni on my bedside ipad and this on my daytime mp3 - both are set in an alternative New York City at the turn of the century. Also, I shall have to revisit The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard) to see which thief I prefer.
One book always leads to another, doesn't it!?
Revisit via audio before the film comes out 14th Feb 2014 and this is narrated by Oliver Wyman. Given the unusually cold weather, dubbed artic vortex, that is subsuming the north americas at this time one could think, at a stretch, that this is a marketing ploy by the movie house sponsor.
“The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.”
Film trailer
Film theme tune is 'Wings' by Birdy
The song I would prefer because I'm an Essex fan since first row, west end opening night of Jesus Christ, Superstar
The inscription on the monument refers to the bridge as the "eternal rainbow", a simile used by Jackson Mead.It is strange having Golem & Jinni on my bedside ipad and this on my daytime mp3 - both are set in an alternative New York City at the turn of the century. Also, I shall have to revisit The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard) to see which thief I prefer.
One book always leads to another, doesn't it!?
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