Unlike everyone else, I never read his children's books, and came to Riddley Walker very late (and I honestly prefer Pilgermann). (I didn't see Turtle Diary for a long while either.) This was back when his books were actually hard to get, and I checked them out of the Santa Fe Public Library again and again -- The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973), Kleinzeit (1974), Turtle Diary (1975), Pilgermann (1983), The Medusa Frequency (1987). Medusa Frequency is one of my absolute favourites. I think I saw Lion reviewed somewhere and that was why I picked it up. Then there was a long gap, and weirder books that didn't appeal to me as much -- Fremder (1996), Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (1998), Angelica's Grotto (1999). I didn't really click with a lot of the later books, which made me really sad, until Angelica Lost and Found (2010), which is just beautiful. I was glad he was getting a lot more publicity and publishing more novels, though, even if I didn't like them (which just about broke my heart).
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Unlike everyone else, I never read his children's books, and came to Riddley Walker very late (and I honestly prefer Pilgermann). (I didn't see Turtle Diary for a long while either.) This was back when his books were actually hard to get, and I checked them out of the Santa Fe Public Library again and again -- The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (1973), Kleinzeit (1974), Turtle Diary (1975), Pilgermann (1983), The Medusa Frequency (1987). Medusa Frequency is one of my absolute favourites. I think I saw Lion reviewed somewhere and that was why I picked it up. Then there was a long gap, and weirder books that didn't appeal to me as much -- Fremder (1996), Mr. Rinyo-Clacton's Offer (1998), Angelica's Grotto (1999). I didn't really click with a lot of the later books, which made me really sad, until Angelica Lost and Found (2010), which is just beautiful. I was glad he was getting a lot more publicity and publishing more novels, though, even if I didn't like them (which just about broke my heart).