I think I’m about to go on a John Gardner kick. Never even read Grendel before (David did, in high school, and made a video based on it for a project…that’s as close as I got).
But I picked up the new edition of Nickel Mountain on the “new arrivals” book at the library, read it, was absorbed and intrigued and fairly dazzled by the language and allusiveness. (More on that later).
And now I’ve just checked out Mickelsson’s Ghosts and October Light. I never read single authors in a batch, but I was so intrigued by Nickel Mountain, I guess I just want to see more of what was in John Gardner’s brain.
Any Gardner readers out there?