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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
I thought of something else: Character names that are real words not usually used as a name.
...or if it's apparently a nickname (say, Shadow in American Gods), but in a lot of cases it puts me off.
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Wednesday, from the same book. I love magical reality or whatever genre
American Gods, Good Omens, Neverwhere and stories like those fit into.
Winter's Tale is a favorite of mine. But I do recall reading somewhere that Mark Helprin rejects that genre label... At least for
Winter's Tale. I enjoy reading of the kind of fantastical world where many of the people in that world know nothing but the reality we are used to seeing day in and day out. But if you look in the right place, alter your perspective, open your mind, accidentally put the wrong kind of mushrooms in your salad, then you see there is another world. The real world of magic.
Woah... listen to me. I sound like this flighty girl I used to have a crush on in Jr. High that loved unicorns, wrote in wispy elven-looking script and even wrote a poem that described herself as the
The Wind. Guess that's what I get for writing here when I have only just gotten out of the hospital and am still on pain meds for my kidney stones.
Please consider this before you judge. By all means judge. But just consider that,
then go ahead and judge.