If I already like ...

Jerry Friedman · 18 Apr 2012, 17:07 · from 2012-April.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:07:56 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: (urth) If I already like ...
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>From: Jeff Wilson jwilson at clueland.com>
>On 4/18/2012 6:59 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> On 4/17/2012 10:42 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> On 4/17/2012 2:08 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
>>>> I strongly second the recommendation for Crowley, and I'd start with
>>>> /Little, Big, /although he's never written anything bad since /Beasts/.
>>>
>>> _Little, Big_ was a disappointment for me. Part of the novel is urban,
>>> but the specks of actual fantasy come before and after.

There's a brownie in the City, and what appears to be an animated statue, and the killing of a changeling (that eats hot coals), and a gateway to Faerie and a way to communicate to someone in Faerie, and a resurrected Barbarossa.
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>> Do you mean classic Victorian-style fantasy vs urban fantasy?
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>I was ready for either, but outside of a talking fish and bird, I came 
>up empty.
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There's lots of other fantasy in it too.
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> It has to be the least fantastic fantasy I've ever encountered.

I take it you haven't read /Freedom and Necessity/, by Steven Brust and Emma Bull.? Or some Robertson Davies books, such as /The Rebel Angels/ and /The Cunning Man/, or /The Mask of Apollo/ by Mary Renault?(unless they don't count since they weren't marketed as fantasy).
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>Other than that, it was okay.

Jerry Friedman

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