Lost
Glass Soup by Jonathan Carroll
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I was a bit disappointed ... and I can't put my finger on why.
Carroll is one of my favorite authors of all time, but the last 2 novels I've read have left me feeling flat. Something about the writing seems cockier ... the storyline sloppier.
I feel less rooted, with a few shakes of the surreal. It's more like trying to ride an eel through Wonderland or the like.
The premise is that Chaos wants to rule the world and upset the balance of life by having a live human give birth to a child in the afterlife of someone else. It's fascinating, yes. True to form, it is full of strange twists and turns.
But it felt lacking.
Perhaps I am simply getting too old for Carroll. Or perhaps the time is off for me, somehow. Whatever the cause, I was sad I didn't love it more. It's not a bad book. Not by a mile. I was just let down that it wasn't stellar.
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