in conversation with literature

[adrian_turtle]

With all the places I could conceivably post this, I choose to share it here, where I can't include a picture. Maybe it's because I like you so much.

I picked up a book from a little free library recently, and it included an actual breakup note. Not a goodbye note like, "Farewell, little book! May you find another lonely teenager to love you as I once did!"
This one says "I don't think I'm ever going to pick you up again" and "I love the first two books in the series, but not you," followed by a paragraph of [absolutely fair] criticism that appears to have been written with a purple gel pen.

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[full_metal_ox]

My strongest temptation is to write "This book is wonderful but it's better if you stop at page [whatever page ruins the whole series]" in Silver on the Tree.

Speaking of which: Michael Moorcock loved, loved, LOVED The Dark Is Rising Sequence, to the extent that its influence left a pretty unmistakable impact: to this day, in his latter Elric books, I can pretty reliably predict that Elric and his co-stars will solve the problem by (ROT13 for spoilers) fhqqrayl erzrzorevat gur rkvfgrapr bs fbzr napvrag qrvgl jub cerqngrf Ynj naq Punbf, jubz gurl vaibxr va n evghny gung—hafhfcrpgrq ol zhaqnar uhznavgl—frgf guvatf zlfgrevbhfyl evtug.