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The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain…
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The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain (udgave 2016)

af Mark Z. Danielewski (Forfatter)

Serier: The Familiar (3)

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2016133,991 (4.06)6
Released for the summer from the perils of school, Xanther and her nameless cat are settling into a comfortable routine at home. However, the rest of the Ibrahim family is growing more and more unsettled. Astair fears their stretched finances are already at a breaking point. Not even a visit from an old friend can mitigate Anwar's feeling that he's failing to support those he loves and that even worse things are to come. The twins, Freya and Shasti, sense something too and blame their older sister. Honeysuckles haunt the air and smell of offerings . . . Meanwhile, Cas and Bobby's survival may depend on facing the one person they fear most. And on the other side of the world, Jingjing and Tian Li set out to find what was lost: their missing cat. With spectacular visuals and the vibrant wordplay that are his trademark, The Familiar (Volume 3) is a beautiful and singular reading experience that could come only from the imagination of Mark Z. Danielewski.… (mere)
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Titel:The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain
Forfattere:Mark Z. Danielewski (Forfatter)
Info:Pantheon (2016), Edition: Illustrated, 880 pages
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The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain af Mark Z. Danielewski

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Kudos to Danielewski for skating right past the cliffhanger at the end of 'Into the Forest'. The events are revealed, but told naturally in the course of Xanther, Anwar, and Astair's routine. As readers in-the-moment it was a shocking, near-thing, but like with most crises (the good kind?) once they're over, people are too relieved to dwell on what could have happened. This also allows 'Honeysuckle & Pain' to progress on its own terms instead of being stuck in high gear from the get-go.

Characters are still drawing closer together. Some of the viewpoints don't have a whole lot going on, cooling their heels and gathering characterization before going onstage - but Jingjing and Tian Li set out to recover the cat that went missing, which gives much-needed focus to that story-line. Luther, still awful, gets a lot of attention, from us and the narcons, but also from his boss. He's being groomed for a big job and a bigger place in the organization. What is it exactly?

Anwar and Astair experience more financial setbacks and struggle to understand what's going on with their daughter, whose becoming unusually withdrawn and difficult. Xanther herself is learning more about herself and theorizing about what's going on with the Little One, who still refuses to be named, and what it means for the future.

Cas and Bobby (Apollo), our revolutionary hackers have the most satisfying story, their world becoming more defined as they find a way to strike back against the organization, at its heart one man, who has had them on the run for months.

This series gets better and better, 'Honeysuckle & Pain' is the middle book of the first "season" of 'The Familiar', so I'm expecting bigger things to come.

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  ManWithAnAgenda | Feb 18, 2019 |
I think I have finally checked out of this experiment. On the plus side, this is the volume where multiple characters and storylines are really starting to interconnect -- even if we don't have a whole feeling for the story at large quite yet. As usual, I liked the sections belonging to Xander and her parents best. I loved the word art, especially the cats. I maintain a fondness for Shnork (I may be spelling this incorrectly as I can't read my handwriting and no longer have the book on hand.) But Jingjing's sections continue to give me a headache, and my wariness toward Luther grew into outright dislike in this volume.

I do like some of the things Danielewski is doing here, but it's just too much work. I already don't like series because I don't like committing to so many particular books when there are so many books in the world to read. Add to that the radically different styles in which each narrator is written, and the current thickness of the mystery -- not knowing what details are important -- starting each section requires scrambling to find one's footing again. Wait -- what is the current status of Xander's flicking stones game? Wait -- what is the current status of Cas in hiding? Wait -- what of Jingjing's section is language, is slang, is druggy nonsense, is ANYTHING?! I'm spending too much time irritated and not enough time in a good reading grove. And the payoff is a billion pages away.

I'm just not that into it. ( )
1 stem greeniezona | Apr 2, 2018 |
Plot lines are starting to ramp up and we're only at the tip of this ice berg! I am really enjoying the tiny spoilers and hints of how all these disparate people, places, and circumstances are connected. This has a smidge of fantastical / science fiction going on that intrigues me very much. So glad I have #4 at home already! ( )
  lissabeth21 | Oct 3, 2017 |
Subtitled Honeysuckle & Pain, Mark Z. Danielewski’s third installment crosses the threshold of experimental fiction into the formulaic.

Review available at the New York Journal of Books:

http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/familiar-volume-3 ( )
  kswolff | Jan 27, 2017 |
I understand Danielewski is trying to echo a TV series, but does he understand I can binge watch an entire thirteen episode season in the same amount of time it takes me to read one volume of The Familiar? With the time commitment one of these books takes, I would like a bit more out of them: three volumes into the projected twenty-seven book series and I can just now begin to discern a hint of plot and multidimensionality in the characters. I can understand letting things develop slowly, but continents move faster than this.

Despite my frustration with the pace of the storytelling, I must say I think Honeysuckle & Pain is a better book than the previous volumes. The characters, especially Xanther, are gaining depth and the hints that are being dropped about how they are interconnected intrigue me. This volume also includes some truly striking images, of which my favorites are a forest with trees made entirely of pound signs and a lioness rendered from lines of text.

I still find the font changes, overuse of parentheses and brackets, and paper-wasting page layout annoying. ( )
1 stem amanda4242 | Jul 28, 2016 |
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Released for the summer from the perils of school, Xanther and her nameless cat are settling into a comfortable routine at home. However, the rest of the Ibrahim family is growing more and more unsettled. Astair fears their stretched finances are already at a breaking point. Not even a visit from an old friend can mitigate Anwar's feeling that he's failing to support those he loves and that even worse things are to come. The twins, Freya and Shasti, sense something too and blame their older sister. Honeysuckles haunt the air and smell of offerings . . . Meanwhile, Cas and Bobby's survival may depend on facing the one person they fear most. And on the other side of the world, Jingjing and Tian Li set out to find what was lost: their missing cat. With spectacular visuals and the vibrant wordplay that are his trademark, The Familiar (Volume 3) is a beautiful and singular reading experience that could come only from the imagination of Mark Z. Danielewski.

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