re: Help with a fantasy/sci fi/fiction reading recommendation

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Harold Bloom included this work in his book The Western Canon, calling it "A neglected masterpiece. The closest achievement we have to the Alice stories of Lewis Carroll."[5] Bloom also recorded that, based on their correspondence, poet James Merrill "loved the book."[6]

Thomas M. Disch described Little, Big as "the best fantasy novel ever. Period."[7] Ursula K. Le Guin wrote that Little, Big is "a book that all by itself calls for a redefinition of fantasy."[8] In Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels, David Pringle described the book as "a work of architectonic sublimity" and wrote that "the author plays with masterly skill on the emotional nerves of awe, rapture, mystery and enchantment."[8] Paul Di Filippo said, "It is hard to imagine a more satisfying work, both on an artistic and an emotional level".[9]

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