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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 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 | I really enjoyed this on the first reading, but on the second, I realized not a lot happened, except for the end of the world of course. :) (  )hairballsrus | Oct 21, 2007 | Brilliant as always. ( )makeart2 | May 18, 2006 | 0.063 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 076530757X, Paperback)Nobody does urban fantasy better than Charles de Lint. He has a gift for creating engaging, fully realized characters, totally believable dialogue, and a feeling that magic is just around the corner.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 (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:04 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I love the image of making the world in order to have a place to fly.