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    <body><![CDATA[I've given a lot of thought to this review: how to begin, how to describe this story, how to explain my utter adoration for it, and most importantly, what words I might use to successfully make <em>everyone read this book right now</em>.<br/><br/>As you can probably imagine, I've come up rather short on al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954363">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Little, Big</em> is the greatest book I have ever read. It is living magic in text form, and it has a truly transformative effect on the reader. I understand that it meanders a bit in the middle section and goes off on a strange-ish quasi-political tangent toward the end, but everything is purposeful and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1498769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely language. Interesting story. Quixotic sensibility. I was bored out of my mind. Couldn't finish it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One distinction Crowley's Little,Big has from other Fantasy  novels is that it's various magical fauna seem so seamlessly integrated into the fictional fabric. So often it seems, with SF/Fantasy novels, the narrative is just a flimsy bit of gauze whose purpose is only to prop up it's various fantast...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5249767">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="37449820">
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    <body><![CDATA[I started to read this book hoping to discover another &quot;Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell&quot; - long, unwieldy and clever but the trouble with big big books is that you really have to love them ... it's a big commitment to grind through over 500 pages &amp; I'll have admit I can't do it here. It's qu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37449820">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no way one could ever adequately describe “Little, Big” by John Crowley.  It is an epic of minute proportions.  Its 500+ pages skip back and forth through several generations and between the “real” world and the fairy world.  The reason I put the word “real” in quotes is because...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30306193">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6057085">
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    <body><![CDATA[I appreciate the entertainment merits of fantasy/science fiction, but after years of Dungeons and Dragons and reading the literature spawned from that (which seemed to always borrow from Lord of the Rings), I grew tired of the genre and more or less walked away from it (and Dungeons &amp; Dragons - but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6057085">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the last 20 or so pages of this late at night, half-asleep which puts your mind in the same state as the characters (characters getting lost in the woods, forgetting who they are, talking to animals - more in line with the fuzzy dreaming brain).  Everything in the book was leading up to those...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/539763">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[OK, I hated this book. It was too long and too boring. However, I was in them minority, as most of the other members of my book club found it enchanting. It's about an extended family which is linked to another dimension or fairy world. Most of them realize they are part of the (fairy) tale. Lots of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7842068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1146109">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book started out beautifully - it felt like a fantastical intermingling of &quot;One Hundred Years of Solitude&quot; and &quot;Alice in Wonderland&quot;.  The writing was exquisite.  By the second half, though, the story became weird, difficult to follow, and basically unbelievable.  I don't mi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1146109">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I tried to read this but just couldn't slog my way through it. <br/><br/>The jacket copy sounded <em>really</em>intriguing, but I didn't get halfway through it. The biggest problem I had with this book was that I felt tried far too hard to be Airy and Phantasmagorical and Mystically Vague and forgot that a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7704122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>LB</em> is lush, beautiful, and strange.  It is one of those books, also, that sent me scurrying for other sources to help make sense of what I am reading.  The language is poetic, but not dense.  The characters are memorable, but like the book, a little removed and distant.  I found myself reading this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33479642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the cover  - with the redhaired girl and the bubbles and the boy and the trout - of the book i picked up and put back and got to the door of the store with friends waiting and turned back and went back and bought.<br/>And from then on the world was as it would not otherwise have been.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25446757">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Whenever critics describe a book as &quot;ambitious,&quot; I'm always wary. Ambitious is sometimes just another word for &quot;really, really long,&quot; and a good portion of the really, really long books I've read could have done the job better in fewer pages. John Crowley's Little, Big is called ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4599848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The writing in this book is incredible, and its depiction of the emotional reality of living in a large, tight-knit family is amazingly insightful and moving. <br/><br/><em>Little, Big</em> is giant in scope -- it tells the stories of several generations in this family and of the people they fall in love w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/302879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[we don't live in a newtonian universe. for me this book is about the vast web of connections formed across space &amp; through time with family and friends. the definition of 'family' becomes less certain and fades away into the distance as relationships are uncovered and more people start to fit into t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18852815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is like life to me. A dangerous statement, but true! It has the feel of all the moments of my life as it unfolds. It has all the wisdom and subtle instruction by example that is necessary for a rich and various life. It limns many of the other layers of life that are left out of &quot;real...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21390232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Crowley's tour-de-force is considered by some to be the pinnacle of the modern American Novel.  I found it engaging and well-written, but just wasn't quite as captivated as Harold Bloom (and a few of my friends, for that matter). ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book had some absolutely beautiful lines and the story was very involved.  It was good read if a bit difficult at time because it is told somewhat indirectly.  The beginning was so beautifully told - the start to Smoky &amp; Alice's relationship, the house, Ariel's memories, and the story of August...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2535004">more...</a>]]></body>
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