false 90622 0553051946 9780553051940 193 32 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1202154139m/90622.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90622.Aegypt 52074 John Crowley 2602 557 5 0 false Tue Apr 21 19:53:42 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 19:01:32 -0700 2009 Love and Sleep in the library about 5 years after its publication. The world Crowley builds creeps into your mind slowly. The books are slow-moving and dense, but that's part of the point, I think. Crowley gives you time to contemplate the way it really happens, it comes to you while life goes on. There are huge background themes behind the characters, and you glimpse them more clearly than the characters thanks to the historical sections of the novels. The characters are not entirely sympathetic, as they really do epitomize a certain "boomer" demographic and experience. They are, more than almost any other author I've read, beside the point. They are intricately drawn cast members, but not really seminal to the theme. The main character certainly serves as a conduit for exposition, and for focusing the idea of alternative histories and ambiguous realities. I found the main character, most central to the overall story arc was Giordano Bruno.
This series of books, as another reviewer has stated, are like a good friend. A friend with foibles and idiosyncrasies, but the kind of friend that makes your life so much richer. After reading Love and Sleep<i/> and then Aegypt<i/>, I couldn't wait for Daemonomania<i/> and was truly sad when I god through Endless Things<i/> and had no more. Fortunately, there was more Crowley to read, and hopefully more coming.]]>