Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Dec. 7th, 2008 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lightreadsA collection of fantasyish shortish stories . . . ish.
Utter crazycakes fantastico. These pieces feel like dreams in that they work almost entirely underwater, in whacked out right brain metaphor speech. The sort of stories that I finished and went "wuh-waaah?" because I was still working on what had actually just happened. And like dreams, these stories get you in the limbic system, so you're all tense and twisted up and upset and involved in something that doesn't even make conscious sense, but man is it getting at something deep down there in the subconscious well.
I generally don't like this sort of thing, but this was really quite wonderful. In that perturbed dream way where I'm not entirely sure I'd ever want to go back there again.
Utter crazycakes fantastico. These pieces feel like dreams in that they work almost entirely underwater, in whacked out right brain metaphor speech. The sort of stories that I finished and went "wuh-waaah?" because I was still working on what had actually just happened. And like dreams, these stories get you in the limbic system, so you're all tense and twisted up and upset and involved in something that doesn't even make conscious sense, but man is it getting at something deep down there in the subconscious well.
I generally don't like this sort of thing, but this was really quite wonderful. In that perturbed dream way where I'm not entirely sure I'd ever want to go back there again.
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Date: 2008-12-08 05:40 pm (UTC)