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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. This is one of the neatest books I've ever read. What more is there to say? I've seen other people say this is one of de Lint's very best and most approachable books. I've read three or four others, and based on that sampling I think I agree, though Onion Girl was outstanding as well. People who want military SF probably won't like this book, but for people looking for something that makes them feel like maybe there is something redeeming in the world after all, this is tops. This is one of his "Newford" books, and it's probably good to have read others of them first, but it's really not necessary. I hadn't done that, and it didn't cause any problems. Like another reviewer, I thought maybe there was something that had come before, but all the characters were reintroduced. I do want to go back and read some of those earlier books, though, and hope to find them as engaging. (  ) bibliojim | Oct 19, 2009 |  A luscious urban tale based on Native American "fairy tale" themes. As always, de Lint delights. (  ) Jam_Today | Sep 22, 2009 | I had a return visit to this one because I needed a comfort read. Things get bad, but everyone cares, so it works out all right in the end. Yay! I love the image of making the world in order to have a place to fly. KaterinaBead | Jul 24, 2008 | This was my first foray into the Urban Fantasy genre and although I really enjoyed it I kept feeling like I was picking this story up in the middle - like maybe this was a second book in a series or something. It took me about 100 pages to start putting the puzzle pieces together. ( ) readingrat | Nov 19, 2007 | Reading books like this make me wonder why certain readers have such a hissy fit over the fantasy genre, saying it can't be literary or it has nothing to offer in terms of social reflections. Clearly, they haven't read books like this, or if they have, they simply don't care for using magic, mythology, and folklore as a means to explore humanity. If that's the case, it's a shame. Someplace to be Flying is a beautiful book, something to break all those stereotypes of what people seem to think urban fantasy is. And now that I've finally been initiated into de Lint's writing, I can't wait to get my hands on more. There's a lot to learn and a lot to enjoy from this guy. For a full review, which may or may not include spoilers, please click here: http://calico-reaction.livejournal.co... (  ) devilwrites | Nov 11, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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Someplace to Be Flying is set in Newford, a town familiar to readers of de Lint. (He set two prior novels (Memory and Dream and Trader) and two anthologies (Dreams Underfoot and The Ivory and the Horn) in Newford.) One late night, as Hank drives his gypsy cab, his reliable though perilous city is transformed. He encounters the mythical "animal people," and the experience leaves him--and the reader--questioning accepted reality.
"Hank just wanted away from here. He'd sampled some hallucinogens when he was a kid and the feeling he had now was a lot like coming down from an acid high. Everything slightly askew, illogical things that somehow made sense, everything too sharp and clear when you looked at it but fading fast in your peripheral vision, blurred, like it didn't really exist." Fans of Emma Bull and Terri Windling (as both an editor and an author) will enjoy de Lint. He can make you believe "as many as six impossible things before breakfast." --Nona Vero
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