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Duskypearls -> RE: Favorite book? (11/3/2012 8:43:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Kana
It's a wonderfully written book isn't it? Voted one of the top 5 novels of the last 25 years a few years back.
Helprin makes the English language come alive in ways few do.
He's one of the very few great American Writers in recent years IMHO
I'm gonna quote from the NY Times review
"THERE'S far more that I would wish to say about the book - so much more that I find myself nervous, to a degree I don't recall in my past as a reviewer, about failing the work, inadequately displaying its brilliance. The canniness of the balancing of fantasy and realism, the capacity of these Dickensian presences to bring to mind, subtly, contemporaries and near-contemporaries from Rupert Murdoch to Howard Hughes to Thomas Pynchon, the excitement scholars will find in interpreting Mr. Helprin's extension of the line of American imaginers who have grappled for longer than a century with the meanings of technology. . . . Not for some time have I read a work as funny, thoughtful, passionate or large-souled. Rightly used, it could inspire as well as comfort us. ''Winter's Tale'' is a great gift at an hour of great need. "
It is definitely different from anything I've ever read before. Being a NY'er, it's interesting to hear how he weaves it all around NY & NJ. Right now I'm at the spot where Peter Lake has fallen in love with, and wants to marry, Beverly. Love the white horse. BTW folks, it's a HUGE book!
I've also just finished reading John Grisham's, "The Litigators," which I loved. His stuff is so believable, easy, satisfying and fast to read.
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