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| Original Title: | Some Other Place. The Right Place. |
| ISBN: | 1592640710 (ISBN13: 9781592640713) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Stay More #2 |
| Characters: | Diana Stoving, Day Whittacker, Daniel Lyam Montross |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Donald Harington
Paperback | Pages: 500 pages Rating: 3.98 | 245 Users | 31 Reviews
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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 were interesting and astonishing and full of life and depth and reality and magic. his writing never had any vanity to it - it seemed he was writing for the sheer joy of creating these people and directing their lives and presenting them the way kids do when they play with dolls. i have never been bored reading a harington book. i have never glossed over a descriptive passage, i have never wished he would wrap it up. his writing is enchanting - it is pulsating with vitality and novelty and specialness- and everything builds and reflects and echoes and even when he would take risks to amplify the magic or the postmodern flourishes, i never felt jarred or impatient. and i'm coming across as cliched and that is the last thing a man like this deserves. but you understand, i am not mourning one man; i am mourning an entire town. i am mourning characters i have fallen in love with over the course of fifteen books - all of stay more has fallen into a hole in the ground, and because he once made me an honorary citizen, i'm in there as well. and i'm sitting here bawling and listening to warren zevon and janis ian and this leonard cohen song i haven't been able to listen to in ten years because it made me cry too hard, because i'm already sad, right?? and i'm just a nightmare mess over this. maybe i will actually review the book-part tomorrow. for now - this is just a sorrowful eulogy. on second thought - no - you can read the books yourselves - you don't need me to potentially ruin it. go - enjoy.
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| Title | : | Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2) |
| Author | : | Donald Harington |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 500 pages |
| Published | : | April 15th 2004 by Toby Press (first published 1972) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.98 From 245 Users | 31 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books Some Other Place. The Right Place. (Stay More #2)
A friend in the publishing business gave me a hardcover copy of this novel in 1973, and I still proudly cherish my first edition copy. The book was a formative read when I was first discovering and building my literary interests. I never really found other of Harington's works in print locally. (just joking, there must still be some around in South Africa) Now, since the digital publication of his nearly complete works by Lake Union Publishing, I can continue my education in Donald Harington'sDisappointing follow up to Lightning Bug. The first two-thirds of the book were entertaining and an interesting read and would have been satsifying and earned 4 stars, but unfortunately an interlude of 50 pages of tedious poetry interupted the flow of the book and irritated me. I understand that the author wanted to develop some pseudo-religious themes and continue his theme of sexuality from the original book, but it was beleagured to the point of absurdity and could have been condensed and
wow. This was so seriously GOOD. like Haruki Marukami only warmly Arkansas and 70s. This deserves way more recognition and fame. I don't understand the obscurity.
This is a long-a** book. It could go on this list: http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/86...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.I love how Harington slipped into
This book was well written. Broken into four movements each of which was written in a unique narrator style that were executed with percision few writers are able to do well. That said I wanted to stop reading it after the second movement. I'm glad I persisted as the third and fourth movement really shine and tie together into the Stay More series. If you pick it up, don't get discouraged as the ending is amazing.
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
"Let's write creepy sex scenes, throw them in between bits of amazing writing and then blame Freud!
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