June 30, 2007
Highly Recommended: "The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters"
Suppose Jane Austen were alive today, did speed, and wrote a Steampunk James Bondish story set in the Victorian era but with an amateur tea-drinking female as the lead character. The result might be something like a tame version of Gordon Dahlquist’s “The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters”.
I’d call it the thinking man’s beach novel, only it’s much too good. Apparently it took ten years to write — but secured a $2 million advance, which is astronomical for a first novel.
Dahlquist sounds like an interesting guy in this interview at Powells Books. And he reads blogs!Do you read blogs? What are some of your favorites?
Two favorites would be Firedoglake, a superb political blog run by Jane Hamsher and Christy Hardin Smith, and then GoFugYourself, run by the “tar-hearted” Jessica and Heather, which is superbly vicious.
Do not start this book late at night.
Posted by Michael : June 30, 2007 10:03 AM | Kultcha | TechnoLinks
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According to his Author's Note on Amazon, the book took almost exactly one year to write.
Posted by: Ryan Walters at June 30, 2007 08:47 PMThen he's fast: it's over 750 pages long.
Posted by: michael at June 30, 2007 09:58 PMThanks for the news! and link to the book.
Posted by: Tom at July 1, 2007 08:53 AM