Snake's-Hands

I can't stop buying books, goddammit. Amazon.com is really amazingly convenient for those of us in the Pacific Northwest. They ship like a proverbial mofo, even. And they're doing free shipping on orders of over $25. These are such hella crazy dealz, they lose money on every book you buy.

('But don't worry,' the executives assure you. 'We'll make up for it in bulk.')

This new batch: Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, by Ioan Culianu, one of many sources employed by John Crowley; Eros, Magic, and the Death of Professor Culianu by Ted Anton; Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.

These come hot on the heels of the critical collection Snake's-Hands; and Appleseed by John Clute, which just recently arrived. It is to Snake's-Hands that I would particularly direct your attention now. I'm working my way through the sections on AEgypt right now. Lots of very interesting commentary on John Crowley, quite a bit on his old notes and typescripts for Engine Summer, and also an exceedingly good essay by Graham Sleight on misunderstandings in the AEgypt sequence. I command you to purchase and read it at once.

Oh...It's entirely likely that some of you may not actually be familiar with John Crowley. In which case you should buy his novels first, and then read them several times, and then buy Snake's-Hands. But do get to it eventually.

Dammit. I must do some complex analysis. Hold that thought.

Posted by aloysius at May 11, 2003 07:48 PM |