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If books had ingredient lists, this one's would just read ``pretension (from concentrate)''.
Na een paar verhalen gelezen te hebben waar ik niets mee kon, heb ik hem terug in de kast gezet.
Some stories were very good, some were very strange and some were so stylised they were dull and I didn't bother finishing them. The ones near the start were generally good, but it went downhill for the second half.
And so McSweeney's is 10 years old (or was in 2009, it's now 11 years old) and they celebrate with (yet another) "Best Of" collection. This is the fifth (there may be more) "Best Of McSweeneys" books to come out in the last 5 years and, ironically, it's a collection of stories that aren't really the best that McSweeney's offers. Most of the offerings in this book have been reprinted before in previous "Best Of" books by McSweeneys - at least 5 stories appear in "Best Of Vol 2", so this collectio...
Would like to give an extra .5 purely based off the fact that I liked one story. I feel like rather than any story itself being interesting, the structure of the stories seemed more important when choosing these collections. Honestly, each story had a tinge of depression to it which obviously was not that great for my mental state haha. The starting two stories were interesting and thats what made me read the rest of them.
I dunno; I enjoyed it I guess? It seemed better than the other McSweeney's anthology that I part-read. I didn't finish it in less than three months though, so it can't have exactly filled me with enthusiasm.Lots of lonely, isolated or deluded people, lots of people dying, not much joy, love or success.Maybe it is just short stories I don't get on with.
Povestirile în sine sunt OK, dar am întâlnit diverse greșeli de redactare: un zeu care nu este recunoscut ca zeu sau măcar ca gen masculin, nici măcar din context, ceea ce duce la o lipsă de logică în fragment; lipsă și de concordanță a numelui unui personaj, când Mătură, când Broom; etc.
Very diverse, funny and entertaining ... !
