Books by Shane Jones
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review 1: I really really liked this. I feel like I should have read it slightly quicker. The book is largely composed of series of symbols and images which bounce around and off of one another quickly building up to a nice emotional climax of an ending. I think some of the images got los...
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review 1: If after Crystal Eaters Shane Jones never writes a novel again he has ended on a note that might be called supersonic. Light Boxes was written in a style that might have reflected more about the process of writing it than the story told (although that is part of the story of Ligh...
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review 1: An endless season called February. I can relate. And the small townfolk taking up a war against February in order to bring on spring, June, and July. I did enjoy this book, but there were points where I had a harder time following along. It took a while for everything to sort its...
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review 1: I am a definite fan of the imagery and mood that Jones evokes. This book is definitely in the same conceptual realm as LIGHT BOXES: words have become meaningless off the page, and only on the page can they serve to construct reality. It is this (de)construction of reality via wor...
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review 1: Some books are rather unusual and Light Boxes is one of them. The book is a fantasy in which anything is possible. February has come, but February has no intention of leaving and the towns people of a unnamed town are subjected to an unending spell of chilly weather dominated by ...
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review 1: Creative writing at its best. A fantasy-adventure legend-mythical story that looks into Winter and its effects on the earthlings. It was amusing at some points, esp its description of how the characters coped with winter worries and doldrums that plagued them. I'm usually good at...