<![CDATA[The Ghost in Love: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Ghost in Love: A Novel]]> 2997253 7 <div><div><div><div><i>“I envy anyone who has yet to enjoy the sexy, eerie, and addictive novels of Jonathan Carroll. They are delicious treats—with devilish tricks inside them.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post</i></div><div><i></i> </div></div></div><div>Neil Gaiman has written: “Jonathan Carroll has the magic. He’ll lend you his eyes, and you’ll never see the world in quite the same way ever again.” <br><br><br><br>Welcome to the luminous and marvelously inventive world of <i>The Ghost in Love</i>. A man falls in the snow, hits his head on a curb, and dies. But something strange occurs: the man <i>doesn’t </i>die, and the ghost that’s been sent to take his soul to the afterlife is flabbergasted. Going immediately to its boss, the ghost asks, what should I do now? The boss says, we don’t know how this happened but we’re working on it. We want you to stay with this man to help us figure out what’s going on. <br><br><br><br>The ghost agrees unhappily; it is a ghost, not a nursemaid. But a funny thing happens—the ghost falls madly in love with the man’s girlfriend, and things naturally get complicated. Soon afterward, the man discovers he did not die when he was “supposed” to because for the first time in their history, human beings have decided to take their fates back from the gods. It’s a wonderful change, but one that comes at a price. <br><br><br><br><i>The Ghost in Love </i>is about what happens to us when we discover that we have become the masters of our own fate. No excuses, no outside forces or gods to blame—the responsibility is all our own. It’s also about love, ghosts that happen to be gourmet cooks, talking dogs, and picnicking in the rain with yourself at twenty different ages. <br><br><br><br>Stephen King has said that “Jonathan Carroll is as scary as Hitchcock, when he isn’t being as funny as Jim Carrey.” Jonathan Lethem sees Carroll as the “master of sunlit surrealism.” However one regards this beguiling original, two facts are indisputable: It’s tough being a ghost on an empty stomach. And <i>The Ghost in Love </i>is a triumphant return. </div></div> 3027737 30 9 2008 The Ghost in Love: A Novel total:423|5:66|4:157|3:112|2:68|1:20| 423 1450 865 142 4 5 false false Sat Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Oct 16 08:49:30 -0700 2008 Sat Nov 15 11:20:49 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 11:04:24 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 18:29:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Fri Jan 09 17:32:18 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 27 17:19:24 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 09 17:32:18 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 09 08:48:51 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 04:40:05 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Sep 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 18:33:15 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 19:32:01 -0700 2008 The Ghost in Love is a bizarre page-turner that breaks all the rules of death and ghosts as we know them. According to Jonathan Carroll, God decided to create ghosts only because people believed in them anyway and they seemed like a good idea. Their purpose would be to tie up loose ends after a pers...more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 18:01:27 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 14 19:17:56 -0700 2008
Admittedly, the premise of the book is a little cheesy (as is the title) but what he read of the first chapter held my attention. There were even a couple of downright brilliant passages.

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“The Ghost in Love” is another st...more...]]> 3 1 false true Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 05:47:55 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 05:59:40 -0800 2009
I do think Carroll writes very creatively about issues central to what it means to be...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:50:18 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 10:51:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 12:04:59 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 12:15:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 07:35:11 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 08:12:29 -0700 2009
The Ghost in Love is very much a love story, an explosion ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Mar 23 21:17:56 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 21:26:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon May 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 07:07:11 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 07:16:56 -0700 2009
The story t...more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 11:57:38 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 10:21:08 -0700 2009 Somewhere in the middle, they start to leave me cold. He explores similar ter...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 06:52:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 21:08:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 20:34:51 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 17:24:21 -0700 2009
So I guess I could say it's SK's fault that I had to limp through this book?!...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 11:11:57 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 02 18:09:01 -0800 2009
The dogs are often able to talk and I'm cool with that. I like it. Michael Silverblatt says his book...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2997253