Jonathan Carroll





Jonathan Carroll

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January 26, 1949

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Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book, The Land of Laughs (1980), tells the story of a children’s author whose imagination has left the printed page and begun to influence reality. The book introduced several hallmarks of Carroll’s writing, including talking animals and worlds that straddle the thin line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists.

Outside the Dog Museum (1991) was named the best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll’s most popular works. Since then he has written the Crane’s View trilogy, Glass Soup (2005) and, most recently, The Ghost...more


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I once had a very formal editor in England. Very proper, very British. While chatting one day I told her I'd read in the paper about a laboratory in Switzerland that had been experimenting with transplanting pubic hair onto the head of bald guys. Initially the concept appeared to be good because that hair is thick and healthy and God knows it’s tough stuff. But after having done a number of exp...

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Average rating: 3.83 · 18,817 ratings · 1,790 reviews · 51 distinct works · Similar authors
The Land of Laughs
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 2,395 ratings — published 1980 — 26 editions
Bones of the Moon
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 1,304 ratings — published 1987 — 16 editions
The Wooden Sea
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions
White Apples
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,281 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions
The Ghost in Love
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 1,215 ratings — published 2008 — 14 editions
Sleeping in Flame
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 1,088 ratings — published 1988 — 12 editions
Outside the Dog Museum
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 967 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
The Marriage of Sticks
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 942 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions
Glass Soup
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions
From the Teeth of Angels
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 732 ratings — published 1994 — 13 editions
More books by Jonathan Carroll…
Bones of the Moon Sleeping in Flame A Child Across the Sky Outside the Dog Museum After Silence From the Teeth of Angels
Answered Prayers (6 books)
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3.95450933651172 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 5,034 ratings
Kissing the Beehive The Marriage of Sticks The Wooden Sea
Crane's View (3 books)
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3.785872781065089 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,704 ratings

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“Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.”
Jonathan Carroll

“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”
Jonathan Carroll

“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”
Jonathan Carroll, Bones of the Moon

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