Phillip Sawyer answers “I have been struggling with reading this...”

A Goodreads user asked this question about Little, Big:

I have been struggling with reading this book for two years now. I just don't get it. It has been rated as one of the best 'fantasy' book ever and even one of the best 'sci-fi' books ever (according to the Guardian). But 100 pages in and all you get is a fish that 'might' be able to talk out in a pond somewhere. What is the appeal? I finally gave up reading it. Why the rage?

Phillip Sawyer There is beauty at every step along the prose path of this tale but you will not epic battles or struggles between good and evil. Its like a photo tha…moreThere is beauty at every step along the prose path of this tale but you will not epic battles or struggles between good and evil. Its like a photo that makes you look better than you are in real life, you stare and marvel at it and wished reality looked as good. The world of "Little, Big" slowly envelopes you and makes you wish that you could enter it or even better, be able to travel between there and your own reality. It setting is always just out of touch like the sweet sound of music in the distance that can never fully be heard. (less)

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