There was something here…something I’d been looking for. I read the comments on the back of the book, and on the first few pages. Something in the back of my mind rose (squid-like) to the surface. There sat a book that drew my hand toward its spine, and before I realized what I was doing, I was looking at the cover to CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN. But…something caught the corner of my eye…or my soul…and I turned toward a random shelf without any particular reason for doing so. I was about to leave with the taste of a familiar disappointment filling my mouth. I discovered the book quite by accident…while gliding listlessly through the staid environs of the local Big Chain Store (as I often do, wishing there was something worth buying on the fantasy shelves).
Tonight I finished reading CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN. The following letter was originally sent to author Jeff VanderMeer on July 21, 2006, after I finished reading his groundbreaking and superbly weird “mosaic novel” CITY OF SAINTS AND MADMEN. After reading last week’s review of this modern classic (and the two stunning sequels that have appeared since then) I thought it would be interesting to post this message that I was compelled to write after finishing the first book of the Ambergris Trilogy.
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