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    The Wooden Sea: A Novel

    By Jonathan Carroll

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    The Wooden Sea is the final novel in The Crane's View Trilogy from award-winning British fantasy author Jonathan Carrol.

    From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead at his feet, McCabe finds himself in a new world of disturbing miracles. His small town of Crane's View, New York has long been a haven of harmony and comfort--but now he finds himself afflicted by the inexplicable, by omens that converge to throw his life into doubt. And what he does over the next few days may have consequences for the whole world . . . .

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 10, 2001
    ISBN9780312700911
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    Jonathan Carroll

    Jonathan Carroll (b. 1949) is an award-winning American author of modern fantasy and slipstream novels. His debut book, The Land of Laughs (1980), tells the story of a children’s author whose imagination has left the printed page and begun to influence reality. The book introduced several hallmarks of Carroll’s writing, including talking animals and worlds that straddle the thin line between reality and the surreal, a technique that has seen him compared to South American magical realists. Outside the Dog Museum (1991) was named the best novel of the year by the British Fantasy Society, and has proven to be one of Carroll’s most popular works. Since then he has written the Crane’s View trilogy, Glass Soup (2005) and, most recently, The Ghost in Love (2008). His short stories have been collected in The Panic Hand (1995) and The Woman Who Married a Cloud (2012). He lives and writes in Vienna. 

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    • 3/5
      For me this lacks the naturalistic uncanniness of "The Land of Laughs" and is more like Wacky Wednesday on steroids. Weirdness is piled on top of weirdness as each chapter dives off the high-board into a different oneiric pool. There is a story here - or I guess more of a point than a story, about memory and the persistence of the self over time - but the technicolor goofiness of everything drowns it out. Time travel? Check. Aliens? Check. Zen koans? Check. Tancretic spredge? That too. What saves this novel from being annoying is Carroll's light-heartedness and obvious love for the suburban American setting. That and the fact that, mere wunderkammer though it may be, it is at least a diverting one.
    • 5/5
      Wow. From the 15th most traveled bookray on bookcrossing. Suspend disbelief and just go along for the ride. Frannie is a 47yo police chief in calm Crane's View. But things are not as orderly as they seem. First, there's a homeless dog that Frannie takes in, and when it dies, refuses to stay buried. Then a feather keeps appearing and disappearing. Then things start happening - Frannie younger hoodlum self appears, the town goes backwards and forwards, but only he can see it - and another being appears that says Frannie must find the fourth thing - whatever that is - to save the world. "How do you cross a wooden sea? I still do not know the answer.....nothing is more important than keeping every one of our individual selves alive.....Not know thyself, but know thy self." Interestingly, when I logged the book on librarything, it's the third book in a trilogy. It doesn't read like part of a series. Now off to France for the next reader!
    • 5/5
      If Joseph C. Lincoln had set down to write The Man Who Folded Himself he would have come up with this. Fran, a small town chief of police, has found himself in the middle of a time traveling mystery / conspiracy where the fate of Crane's View rests on his ability to sort things out. The first chapter didn't do much for me but by the second chapter the quirky plot began to surface. By the third chapter I was hooked all the way through the epilogue which seemed like a tidy albeit somewhat ambiguous (as many time travel books are) ending.
    • 4/5
      I like how, well, weird this book was - the plot was endlessly captivating ... until it became confusing. I like a book that leaves the reader thinking, but this one did that and then some. I just wish a it had a bit fewer loose ends.
    • 5/5
      I'm not much into sci-fi, time travel, or any of that genre, but I had this book as part of a bookray from Bookcrossing, so felt obliged to read it and pass it along.Wow. What a read. Frannie (I suppose Francis) McCabe is the police chief of a small town in the Hudson Valley, and strange things start happening as soon as he takes in a three-legged brindled pit-bull mix who proceeds to die in his office. A dog that won't stay buried. A feather no bird has ever grown. An old bone. And then Fran's an old man in Austria, and then he meets his young, bad-ass 17 year old rebellious self. And - and - and.Underneath it all is a love of small-town life, the particulars of people in a community, the private workings of a marriage, the secrets of the universe.Funny, profane, grave, joyful. How satisfying it all is.
    • 4/5
      I slipped it under his collar. Like an Egyptian king going to the hereafter surrounded by his worldly possessions, Old Vertue now had a beautiful feather to carry along. It was getting late and I had other things to do. Quickly filling the grave, I tamped it down as best I could, hoping another animal wouldn't catch the scent and dig it up.Frannie McCabe is chief of police in Crane's View a small town in New York state. He is generally happy with his lot, having outgrown his wild rebellious teenage years to become a respected member of the community, and is happily married with a teenage stepdaughter.But then a couple well known for their domestic disturbances disappear in the middle of a screaming row, a stray dog that died in his office won't stay buried, a dead girl talks to him and a mysterious multi-coloured feather keeps appearing in the strangest places. And his seventeen-year-old self pays him a visit to tell him that there is a puzzle that he has to solve.Confusing : )
    • 5/5
      Frannie McCabe is the police chief of a small town in New York state. His weird adventures begin after he takes in a pitiful homeless dog, which soon dies. Frannie ends up travelling in time and tring to figure out why a lot of weird things are happening to him in his normal, down-to-earth home town. A mysterious messenger tells him that he's got a week to figure out what's going on.I found this book to be quite a bit of fun. Carroll seems to be winking at us, not taking the whole thing too too seriously. I like Frannie as a character, and the insights that he has seem to fit with who he is. Carroll's tone is light and his style very compatible with the story and its inhabitants. I'll look for more by him.
    • 3/5
      I have read better ones in the past by Jonathan Carroll. Maybe life has moved me off in a different direction. The plot never came together, the character never sunk completely in, and the action never captivated me. In the past I always liked the little life observations of the characters and side stories. The ones in this novel never really drew me in. I won't give up on Jonathan Carroll yet, since his early novels wooed me so well.
    • 3/5
      This was my first Carroll book. I perhaps waited a bit too much from it, because it left me a bit underwhelmed. It has many interesting ideas, and some fun surrealistic bends, but the story never seems to get going... Nevertheless, I think that Jonathan Carroll has a lot of potential, and I intend to read more of his works in the future.
    • 4/5
      I stayed up too late last night and am sort of tired, so this one's not getting a very thorough review. I will say that Carroll's out of my regular genre a little, but I enjoyed this book very much. It was funny and touching, and a little weird too. I liked his White Apples better, but this was a good way to spend a weekend afternoon.
    • 4/5
      Interesting book, I'm not sure if I 'got' the ending, but it certainly kept me engaged untill then. I'd like to read something else by the author...
    • 4/5
      THis is a great book. Any book of Carrols deserves to be read.