http://heliologue.com/2006/12/15/the-stones-of-summer/ Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. Wed, 23 May 2012 05:37:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://heliologue.com/2006/12/15/the-stones-of-summer/#comment-121852 Alois Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:23:50 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/12/15/the-stones-of-summer/#comment-121852 As a matter of fact I am about 100 pages left with "the stones of summer." I just read Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner which is uses stream-of-consciness to a mind numbing degree so in actuality reading SOS was a bid of a breather... although not much of one. The frist sentence in the SOS indicates the level of quality this writer employs. I wanted to write a book one day, but after reading one knock-out sentance after another I understand that this author is cut from a different grain than I. Some of us were meant to write, and some were meant to read. I am in the latter group while Dow Mossman is in the former. I recommend this book only to the serious readers. I recommend part 2 of this book to the everyday reader as it is a real treat. .A As a matter of fact I am about 100 pages left with "the stones of summer." I just read Absalom, Absalom by Faulkner which is uses stream-of-consciness to a mind numbing degree so in actuality reading SOS was a bid of a breather… although not much of one.
The frist sentence in the SOS indicates the level of quality this writer employs. I wanted to write a book one day, but after reading one knock-out sentance after another I understand that this author is cut from a different grain than I. Some of us were meant to write, and some were meant to read. I am in the latter group while Dow Mossman is in the former. I recommend this book only to the serious readers. I recommend part 2 of this book to the everyday reader as it is a real treat.
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]]> http://heliologue.com/2006/12/15/the-stones-of-summer/#comment-39710 Dandelion Wine « A Modest Construct Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:32:39 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2006/12/15/the-stones-of-summer/#comment-39710 [...] This was a bit of a strange thing for me, the first Bradbury piece I’ve read that wasn’t (a) dystopian or (b) science fictional. And yet many people consider Dandelion his finest work. It’s a beautiful book, and a wonderful read, but for some reason I liked some of his other stuff a lot better. Maybe I’m just tired of summer retrospectives, since I read several last year (Bill Bryon’s Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; Dow Mossman’s Stones of Summer). [...] [...] This was a bit of a strange thing for me, the first Bradbury piece I’ve read that wasn’t (a) dystopian or (b) science fictional. And yet many people consider Dandelion his finest work. It’s a beautiful book, and a wonderful read, but for some reason I liked some of his other stuff a lot better. Maybe I’m just tired of summer retrospectives, since I read several last year (Bill Bryon’s Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; Dow Mossman’s Stones of Summer). [...]

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