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[KichigaiNeko]

LOL, I wish I was a bridge builder. I got to run a pavement miller on the center span once a few years back. Lemme just say, that was a view. We brought out the biggest miller we had so you're sitting up so high that the guardrails disappear beneath the machine. The whole time you're literally scraping away the pavement beneath you, a couple hundred feet above the Gulf of Mexico. Surreal experience.

Gotcha!

[Epimethean]

Call me sentimental and biased, Epi, but the Blue Ridge Mountains are fucking amazing almost any time of year in my opinion.

Been there, too, summer. Yes, they are. The U.S. has some of the best mountain ranges anywhere.

[thesummerqueen]

My favorite is when I'm driving through them in the evening and the sun backlights them just right, and they look as if they're made of smoky amber disappearing into a molten sky. You're traveling through the sidhe then, and if the road could stray but a little you'd disappear for 100 years with the fae folk.

[KichigaiNeko]

To turn a corner and suddenly 'BE' somewhen else.

Mountains can do that ya know

[Epimethean]

My favorite is when I'm driving through them in the evening and the sun backlights them just right, and they look as if they're made of smoky amber disappearing into a molten sky. You're traveling through the sidhe then, and if the road could stray but a little you'd disappear for 100 years with the fae folk.

When I think of such things, summer, I think of places like Schiehallion or Doon Hill, or the Birks themselves. I do see the beauty in the American mountains, to be sure, but for faerie, I always look to the UK.

[thesummerqueen]

Love, these things are not the same, but you should read Neil Gaiman's "American Gods". I think you'd see - they are not quite alike but they are similar.

If you haven't read his books and stories yet, you should. I have a hunch they're up your alley.

[Epimethean]

I've read all of Gaiman, sweetie.

[downbeatplumb]

I've read all of Gaiman, sweetie.

I've only read the book he did with terry pratchett.

Good omens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens

[thesummerqueen]

Very good book, but you should give his other stuff a try. American Gods is awesome, and Stardust is far more than what the movie version raped it into being. His short stories are phenomenal. Actually, anything he's touched I've ended up liking, from movies to comics to books.

[Epimethean]

American Gods is astonishing, and so is The Graveyard Book. I also very much enjoyed Anansi Boys (and its tie to AG) and Coraline. I enjoy his short stories, too, though I am less a fan of short fiction than its larger, more well developed kin.

Summer, do you read Audrey Niffenegger's books? I love those, too.