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Indlæser... Glass Soup (2005)af Jonathan Carroll
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. It was strange picking up Glass Soup. While The Wooden Sea and White Apples fit together into the same sequence, they fit together plot wise but not so much right where the last one left off. Glass Soup is a very direct sequel to White Apples. There's enough background information in it that you don't necessarily have to read White Apples first, but I'd still recommend doing it. For one, it really helps you feel more for the characters and the choices they make. I feel strangely about the book as well due to the ending. Having just finished it, I'm still in that strange post-reading haze where I can't decide what I think. The book was beautiful, as most of Carroll's books are. His commentary on the nature of life and his idea of God are also incredibly intriguing. It definitely takes the cake for the most shocking opening images, and did get a few laughs out loud. Most of what I can say about it is that there was a marked difference between Carroll's worldview in Glass Soup than in The Ghost In Love. I think that is primarily what stopped me from enjoying it as much as I could have. I tend to be a bit more optimistic. This book is a sequel to “White Apples”, which I did not know before I started reading. Apparently it doesn’t much matter; the gist of it is that Vincent and Isabelle fell in love, Vincent died, and Isabell did the whole Orpheus thing and went to the land of the dead and brought him back to life. “Glass Soup” takes place very shortly after that. Isabelle is pregnant, and her child is a very important one: the fate of the universe hinges on whether he is born in the land of the living or of the dead. This novel is Order fighting against Chaos, with Isabelle’s child representing Order. The story actually starts when Simon Haden wakes up into a world where he is a tour guide (it takes place in Vienna). The bus is driven by an octopus; one passenger is made of butter; another is a really bored bag of caramels. A 6” tall man named Broximon hangs out with him. It turns out that AC/DC was right: there is literally a multilane highway to Hell. Simon, as he finally figures out, is dead. The afterlife is made of every single dream and nightmare a person has had in their life. Ugh. The plot has various beings- one of them a shape-shifting, womanizing, serial killer- trying to get Isabelle on one side of life or death or the other. I really liked it, and I’m not even sure why. I disliked pretty much all the characters. But overall the book as fascinating. It’s a love story, and a story of friendships, despite God being a polar bear. Four stars out of five. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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For connoisseurs of imaginative fiction, the novels of Jonathan Carroll are a special treat that occupy a space all their own. His surreal fictions, which deftly mix the everyday with the extraordinary, have won him a devoted following. Now, in "Glass Soup," Carroll continues to astound . . . . The realm of the dead is built from the dreams--and nightmares--of the living. Octopuses drive buses. God is a polar bear. And a crowded highway literally leads to hell. Once before, Vincent Ettrich and his lover, Isabelle Neukor, crossed over from life to death and back again. Now Isabelle bears a very special child, who may someday restore the ever-changing mosaic that is reality. Unless the agents of Chaos can lure her back to the land of the dead--and trap her there forever."Glass Soup" is another exquisite and singular creation from the author "January" magazine described as "incapable of writing a bad book much less an uninteresting one." No library descriptions found. |
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Vincent Ettrich y su amada, Isabelle Neukor, cruzaron una vez la frontera que separa la vida de la muerte y regresaron de allí. Ahora, Isabelle lleva en su vientre a un niño muy especial, que podría restaurar algún día el inestable mosaico de la realidad. A menos que los agentes del Caos consigan atraerla de vuelta a la tierra de los muertos… y retenerla allí para siempre.