Not at all sure how I feel about this

[flemmings]

Alan Garner is finishing the Weirdstone Trilogy. "I have no expectations, none," as Stoppard's Guildenstern said (unless it was Rosencrantz.) But what happened to Susan, if Colin's the only one left in this mortal realm? wibble wibble

(Garner, famously, is the writer who never ever wrote the book I wanted him to. The Moon of Gomrath was followed by Elidor; Elidor was followed by The Owl Service (aka 'what these people need is a limey'); The Owl Service was followed by Red Shift and its unlikable self-pitying rapist protagonist. After that I gave up on Garner. So yes, mixed feelings here.)

Comments

[incandescens]

That is... I have no idea where he might be going with that. I suppose it could be a pleasant surprise. Or quite possibly not.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Given Garner's eccentricity, very possibly not.

[incandescens]

Oh well. At least we have Weirdstone and Gomrath for good memories.

[mikeneko.livejournal.com]

HUH. I have copies of these books and have read them, and can remember nothing at all about them. The Owl Service is the only book of his that made a real impression on me. So. I don't know. BUT I am glad you posted about this because I wouldn't have known otherwise.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

You had to get them at an impressionable age, I think; and it helps if you're a bit England-besotted, which god knows I was in my 60s teens. For both reasons, a third volume is not unalloyed good news.