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The Spiderman musical will be saved! Throw some Lion King money at it.

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Two more books I'd never heard of (which is exactly what I wanted—unknown—by me—little gems, hopefully0.

I am firmly in the liked it camp. When a book gives me this much to think about and is so beautifully written and has many, many great ideas and scenes, I do not care a lick about whether I liked or didn't like the characters or their decisions or the loose plot structure (the Big Picture view of the plot is very…

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OK, that video is awesome. Never heard of this group before, but the description of them is intriguing: "The Les Humphries Singers was a musical group formed in Hamburg, Germany by Englishman Les Humphries in the year 1970. The group consisted of a large number of singers of diverse origins, from the retarded to…

"This was a book about the way we want things to be but fear they are not." Perfectly stated.

Yeah, that's a great moment Serge. I also like the one soon after where Smoky and Auberon finally sit down and talk and realize that after having spent their entire lives thinking they had nothing in common and could barely even speak to one another, they were exactly alike.

I'm with you—she is a bitch! She really enjoys fucking with Smoky in an earlier scene, too.

Yes, no doubt—I remember it being Smoky she was stargazing with (I'm probably wrong), but I know I'm right ab out that stargazing chapter being titled, "Little, Big." What better chapter to look in, huh?

" And we get rewarded with the awesome exploding changeling story."

"In short, I wonder if the human side of Fairy needed to shake off their own humanity before retreating into a new kingdom. Barabossa was simple a tool, brought out by the Fairy at a time when they needed him. "

OK, I guess the gas station is a pretty obvious one (as obvious a marker as an expanding railroad line in a western). It comes and goes so quickly, but I guess it is awfully important in August's fate (and thus the fate of his myriad offspring).

Ha! What an idea—I'm going to write a book where the true antagonist is never mentioned, shown, discussed, or even hinted at—let people figure out for themselves that the enemy is technology. That would be a bold move for a writer, huh?

Dick Grayson, are you writing in character or are these your honest opinions? You want to team-up and solve the mystery—surely that's a joke, right?

Speaking of Smoky, he gets his purse in the end, right? Alice gave Smoky her childhood, but Mrs. Underhill and the Woods remind him that he's got no purse to put it in. They give him a bag, which turns out to be or turns into a hornets' nest. But at the end, Smoky finds the bag again in a closet as he's packing (to…

I think an argument can be made for Smoky as the hero (the only other option's Auberon, right?). Of all the characters, I think I loved Smoky best. He seems to be a bit player, but his role in the story of the universe is as essential as anyone else's. Remove him from the family tree and who knows what would have…

@natty, like what kind of something has to be entering out world? I don't think I see what you're getting at.

If someone finds the page number or passage that includes the Tita thing, could you post it here? I think I overlooked it completely.

I think I see your point, but for so many characters, "spring" arrives at the end of the book, through their various iterations of heaven, through the marriage and seeming promise of future generations, through the celebration after the funeral.