Who is like Angela Carter only not?

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I can't quite get on with her. I quite like her themes but not how she writes, IYKWIM.

I like the kind of vaguely fantasy, circusy, slightly whimiscal, illusion stuff. Also the feministy stuff.

Who else can I try?

I don't think there is anyone like Angela Carter. The male magical realists are not like her. The chicklitters are SO not like her. The feminists are not like her. She is unique. A goddess.

imo angela carter is a bit like fay weldon in that i really really want to enjoy the books but simply can't get into them

margereat atwood v. good

I have magic toyshop and electric thingy now from library

samples of all rest (I think) on order

thanks all!

I'm off to look for electric michaelangelo tomorrow!

Anybody read any Barbara Conyms (our spoons came from Wooldworths, The Skin Chairs etc?)

You migfht like Olivia Manning, The Doves of \Venus too...

"Character" ??? I don't think AC traded in character at all. I love her books but she had no truck with proper 4-dimensional characters.

Try Marge Peircey "Woman on the Edge of Time". Not magic realism at all but wonderful liberating, feminist SF. I want to live in that place sooo much.

OMG I love 'Woman on the edge of time' I've not met anyone else who has read it.
I also like Margaret Atwood, although she's not magical realism some of her books are classed as SF/ fantasy

Glad to meet you peachygirl

Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness should also get a mention if we've moved on to feminist science-fiction.

oooh, yes Ursula LeGuin. Not magic realist, but good thought-provoking stuff, and reasonably out-there, iykwim

(Am intending to completely nick stuff off this thread for my next months book club recommendation - needs to be 'something feminst but a bit different'