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Jonathan Carroll

Born

in New York City, The United States

January 26, 1949

Website

http://www.jonathancarroll.com/

Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Literature & Fiction, Horror

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Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book, The Land of Laughs (1980), tells the story of a children’s author whose imagination has left the printed page and begun to influence reality. The book introduced several hallmarks of Carroll’s writing, including talking animals and worlds that straddle the thin line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists.

Outside the Dog Museum (1991) was named the best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll’s most popular works. Since then he has written the Crane’s View trilogy, Glass Soup (2005) and, most recently, The Ghost ...more

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The Dogs of War — Ukraine

From a friend in Poland:

“My friend from Kiev, Lyudmyla Dyachenko, who doesn’t want to leave the city for anything in the world, wrote something about Ukrainian women:

A dog shelter today in the suburbs of the Sumy city. A car pulls up. A lady gets out and says: A huge Husky was wandering not far from the city. I think her owner abandoned her. The dog was looking a bit sad a

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Jonathan Carroll’s books

Average rating: 3.79 · 46,296 ratings · 4,633 reviews · 121 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Land of Laughs 3.89 avg rating — 6,497 ratings — published 1980 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bones of the Moon (Answered Prayers, #1) 3.86 avg rating — 2,614 ratings — published 1987 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Apples (Vincent Ettrich, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 2,518 ratings — published 2002 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wooden Sea (Crane's View, #3) 3.83 avg rating — 2,299 ratings — published 2001 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping in Flame (Answered Prayers, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 1,985 ratings — published 1988 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghost in Love 3.47 avg rating — 2,116 ratings — published 2007 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marriage of Sticks (Crane's View, #2) 3.83 avg rating — 1,798 ratings — published 1999 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outside the Dog Museum (Answered Prayers, #4) 3.95 avg rating — 1,737 ratings — published 1991 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glass Soup (Vincent Ettrich, #2) 3.88 avg rating — 1,481 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Teeth of Angels (Answered Prayers, #6) 3.93 avg rating — 1,393 ratings — published 1994 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Answered Prayers (6 books)
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Crane's View (3 books)
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Vincent Ettrich (2 books)
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Quotes by Jonathan Carroll (?)

“Dogs are minor angels, and I don't mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, etcetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it's "only" a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day-- we're just so used to them that we pay no attention.”
― Jonathan Carroll

tags: dogs

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“Real love is always chaotic. You lose control; you lose perspective. You lose the ability to protect yourself. The greater the love, the greater the chaos. It’s a given and that’s the secret.”
― Jonathan Carroll, White Apples

tags: chaos, real-love

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“People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.”
― Jonathan Carroll

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Polls

JULY FANTASY: This poll decides which two novels move on the run-off poll for our July 2012 SF Book of the Month

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

19 votes, 19.8%

Small Gods by Terry Pratchett

17 votes, 17.7%

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente

14 votes, 14.6%

Three Days to Never by Tim Powers

12 votes, 12.5%

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

11 votes, 11.5%

Silverlock by John Myers Myers

7 votes, 7.3%

The Goblin Mirror by C.J. Cherryh

6 votes, 6.3%

The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

4 votes, 4.2%

The Wooden Sea by Jonathan Carroll

3 votes, 3.1%

Mistress of Mistresses by E.R. Eddison

3 votes, 3.1%

96 total votes

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