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Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2)
A college graduate and eagle Scout take turns as amateur archaeologists, nauralists, sleuths, and inevitably, lovers --as they discover the solution of a mystery revelaing their own beginnings.
Paperback, 500 pages
Published
April 1st 2003
by Toby Press
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long live donald harington (12/22/35 - 11/07/09) yeah, i just found out. that's two of my favorites in as many years. why can't i fall in love with robots?? donald harington was by far the most under-appreciated author i have ever championed. and his relative obscurity is both puzzling and offensive to me. what are people reading, if not this? and why? what's the point? harington was the most effortless storyteller i have ever read. he created an entire town and filled it up with characters that...more
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This is a long-a** book. It could go on this list: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/8618....
Diana Stoving and Day Whitaker team up to trace the life of Daniel Lyam Montross through the 4 different places he lived. The narrator surprised me, looping back to an earlier book, but just genius.
How to describe this? My heart felt heavy as I read. Often funny. It's like walking in the forest on an upslope that's a vertical crest curve so that you can't see what's coming. ...more
Diana Stoving and Day Whitaker team up to trace the life of Daniel Lyam Montross through the 4 different places he lived. The narrator surprised me, looping back to an earlier book, but just genius.
How to describe this? My heart felt heavy as I read. Often funny. It's like walking in the forest on an upslope that's a vertical crest curve so that you can't see what's coming. ...more
This is one of the strangest, most beautiful and mysterious books I've ever read. The story weaves and dances around on itself and yet never fails to mesmerize. It is a book I know I will read again before writing a more thoughtful review.
Beautifully crafted until Harington writes himself into the last third of the book. Skip that last section, and it's amazing. Multiple narrators, age-regression hypnosis, story in verse.
I think a lot of y'all would really like Donald Harrington, but he's never taken off the way I assumed he would some day. His writing reminds me of Tom Robbins, only with more meat and less cute. There's still cute, mind you. Sometimes too much. But it seems to me that Harrington backs it up with genuine, earnest emotion. This book is really fascinating and entertaining and sexy and funny -- the very last bit gets a little post-modern for my taste, but when you write a book as ambitious and stra...more
I'm impressed by this author, this is the second book I've read of his and his style is very fresh and original. Challenges you to question your assumptions about the novel and has a way of involving you and your thoughts in the concept and development of the story. I'll be reading more of him.
I must admit I had never heard of donald harington until karen badgered me repeatedly until i finally gave in and bought all 15 of his books (just kidding, karen).this is the third one i have read and it is by far the best yet.it's a magical book with wonderfully memorable characters and is told from multiple points of view.i wanted the book to go on forever (and it's almost 600 pages as it is).i'm actually at a loss for words to describe how great it is.so just buy it and read it.it's a masterp...more
Oh. So. Good.
Just re read it in November. Better than I remembered. Sometimes a book like this can be viewed so differently after you have lived a few decades.
After reading Thirteen Albatross I really wanted to read Day and Diana's story. I LOVED this book in the beginning, especially the section where they are camping in the ghost town, so I'm giving it five stars even though I'll admit I had some trouble towards the end.
I waded through this book for weeks, and it was gorgeous. Perhaps the most interesting novel I've ever read about relationships - expectations, disappointments, satisfaction and understanding . . two holes in the outhouse is the way to go.
jim
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I remember reading this a long time ago when it first came out and not being all that impressed. Judging from the comments, however, I may have to give it another go.
An underappreciated author. I will read more of his books. This one had a few dumb moments but was also touching and creative at the same time.
I thought it was good, but not great. Satisfying conclusion, but a bit long-winded and self indulgent in the getting there.
Decided I needed to reread this one. Remember loving it, and in a serious Harington mood.
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