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The Very Best Of Charles De Lint (2010)

by Charles de Lint(Favorite Author)

4.42 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1892391961 (ISBN13: 9781892391964)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tachyon Publications

review 1: This is a lovely collection of Charles DeLint's work encompassing many years of his life and the characters (many of DeLint's characters reappear throughout his books and stories over the course of about 20 years of their life - and 20 years of his for that matter). Charles DeLint is one of the originators of Urban Fantasy - but less Buffy and more similar to Gaiman, however more mysterious and less horror although both Gaiman and DeLint move back and forth across the horrific line. DeLint always makes me want to look at the world more closely, wondering if Shakespeare is right. If there are things going on beneath the surface of what I see that I couldn't even imagine. And even if there is not, a desire to delve into what I call real world magic - watching a squirrel go a... morebout it's work, a group of musicians in perfect sync, the laughter of children on a playground. DeLint reminds me of beauty, even in his darker stories, perhaps because it's the beauty of the mystery of life.
review 2: The Very Best of Charles De Lint was pretty much what it was advertised to be. While I think his best writing is in the form of full length novels, this is a collection of the best of his truly excellent short stories. I wouldn’t recommend it for an avid De Lint fan because they would have most likely read the stories elsewhere but I enjoyed it as an easy reference of stories that were well worth a second (and third, and fourth) reading. less

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