I've only read through the first book (I'm trying to hurry! And will have it ALL read by my time to present the Sixth Book :)) But my questions are therefore a bit limited...
1. Why would Auberon think that having a unibrow somehow made you more likely to communicate with the other world? Was there any other societal significance at the time?
2. Auberon's photos have "holes" in the story, and he has trouble putting them in sequential order. Would Daily Alice or Sophie be able to do a better job because they "see" what he can't? Is the sequential order really necessary for comprehension?
3. Why do the fairies want Lilac at all? And will Sophie realize she's a changeling and get her back?
4. Daily Alice makes Smoky more solid, less anonymous. Is he that way only around her? Or would he keep his solidity back in The City?
5. If Smoky believes it is all make believe, but he tries anyway to understand, is he fully comprehending? Can someone who can't "see" truly respect and appreciate what Daily Alice has experienced? Or is experiencing it in the first person the only way to truly believe?
6. This one is not so much a question as a comment. My friend tonight asked me what I was reading, and I found it hear impossible to give a synopsis of Little, Big. I told him it was about a family who lived in a house, and about the different generational stories tied to teh family. I said it was about people who could see fairies. He was interested and asked me what kind of fairies. Not knowing quite how to answer, I read for him from Theodore Bramble's speech on pages 42 and 43. But I told him the academic explanation of the fairies wasn't really the point of the story, it was more about the magic of the whole thing. He commented on "No I understand, the explanation is just word fluff for the book." I balked. I balked because I had yet to read a single chapter, a single sentence, a single word that was not absolutely necessary for the story in this book. There was no "word fluff" and he very clearly did not "understand." But who was I to explain it to him? He needs to read it for himself.
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