I feel kind of bad about the fact that the one book of hers I read (I can't remember the title) I really didn't like.
She has some novels that don't work for me. The ones I tend to recommend people to start with are either Honeybuzzard (1966; also published under the title Shadow Dance) or The Magic Toyshop (1967) or her last novel Wise Children (1991). She has an extremely conscious style—it's ornate and lush and baroque and all those orchid-like words, and you may very well hate it. But those three novels, I love. I'd also suggest her fairytale collection The Bloody Chamber (1979), from which I assume The Company of Wolves is drawn; it was the first Angela Carter I ever read, and it made an impression. greygirlbeast's "Untitled 17" has a slight flavor of those stories.
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She has some novels that don't work for me. The ones I tend to recommend people to start with are either Honeybuzzard (1966; also published under the title Shadow Dance) or The Magic Toyshop (1967) or her last novel Wise Children (1991). She has an extremely conscious style—it's ornate and lush and baroque and all those orchid-like words, and you may very well hate it. But those three novels, I love. I'd also suggest her fairytale collection The Bloody Chamber (1979), from which I assume The Company of Wolves is drawn; it was the first Angela Carter I ever read, and it made an impression.
Like Lego Shakespeare.
. . . Does that really exist?