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Title: Earth to JC! Please phone home.....
Review: I've been a fan of Carroll's for years; sometimes felt I was the only person in on the secret. He defies the normal genre categories: his novels--beautifully written, teasingly plotted, quite often quite terrifying--combine horror and fantasy, flirt with matters metaphysical, don't ever entirely depart from the conventions of "mainstream" literary fiction. So it was extremely upsetting for me to find I just couldn't finish this book....just too whimsical, too exasperatingly arbitrary in its narrative development, too self-consciously darkly cute (or cutely dark). I want the Carroll who reminds me of Robert Aickman, not the Carroll who reminds me of a schizophrenic Walt Disney...
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