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Toy Story meets Shane and is just weird. This is like stoner fiction for the New Yorker magazine set. Weird shit.
I think I liked it. As the first in a series of four novellas, it certainly was engaging and left me wanting to read the others in the series. The writing style had its moments of fun, and was solid throughout. All in all, a decent little short-story read.
I'm not sure if I really like the plot but the world building was awesome. This is a strange cross of an old time Western with Babes in Toyland and Science Fiction. The great thing is that it works. In a novella, Mr. Nayeri has been able to conveay a wonderful world with great characters. I like his use of myth too.Well done.(Got as a Kindle freebie)
I think this is probably a brilliant book - but I really struggled with it. And finally put it down and decided that I have too many books to read to worry about finishing this one. Maybe short stories are not my thing - or maybe I just could not get pulled into this.
Odd book. Creative, I guess. I kind of feel like someone has been smoking something when writing this. It is a good thing it was short or I would have thrown in the towel.
There are no words for how terrible this book was. Maybe I just didn't "get" it or something but I could barely make it through. And it's pretty short.
I liked this book, but I would have enjoyed the story more had things been explained. The reader is expected to accept things at face value- Toys are sentient beings and run a farm that yields more living toys as its crop. It is never explained why these toys are planted, grown and harvested or whether the whole world is populated with items that would otherwise by inanimate. I really think that the story would have benefited with a bit more context.
Belated posting of an advance copy review Daniel Nayeri has got the funny. Shall I sound a little bit inflated when I tell you, gentle reader, that I have an advanced copy of what I am not fearful of presumptively calling Nayeri's priceless collection of novellas. I have one of the four stories to be precise,"Doom With A View", which is a concocted tale of genius, ignited, but only just, by the timelessness of Sleeping Beauty, and it would seem, Romeo and Juliet. Beyond that shadow of a parallel...
