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40 stories are a lot. Only enjoyed a few of them.
Pretty good lunch reading, with some significant variance between writers when it came to quality and style of writing.
Some these stories are just out there; others are touching and thought-provoking.
I got to about story #27 and gave up. This was pretty disappointing. Most of the stories were not that good.
Miss November is a great read
The stories are great. I know there were some of them where the story might have bothered me, but none of the stories were poorly written, so I’m taking those few negative reactions as subjective. I can't express how much I enjoyed this wonderful, diverse assortment of plots and voices. I can't encourage people enough to download it. This free ebook might just lead you to your next favourite author.
I liked some of these. I think I like it when some stuff happens. If it's weird stuff like someone setting your town's giant ball of string on fire that's good. If it's normal stuff they have to hook you some other way which is harder. A couple in here were pretty abstract.Some nice ones: Basslines, Before the Trip, I Like Looking at Pictures of Gwen Stefani, Some Kind of Rugged Genius but good other ones too. conflicted on things like opal one, opal two.
Did not finish. It became painful to read. Not insulting the authors, just not my sort of reading
Finally finished reading this. Took me months (started in April its now October 30) to read these 40 short stories. The eBook is available for free on Bookshout and was one of the first books I got from that app store. Some of the stories were amazing, others odd and just zig zag jumbled words that made very little sense. But there were stories that were well written and entertaining. My favourites (in no particular order) were:A Plain Kiss (Letters to Allison, 2006) by Jaime QuatroIn A Manner o...
I liked:Eliezra Schaffzin's Birthright City - amazing, painful, funny story about puberty, sexual confusion, identity and peer alliances, featuring an American girl visiting Jerusalem on a school camp.Paula Younger's Djeser Djesuru (Splendor of Splendors) - wrenching, engaging story of a recently divorced American woman's entanglement with an Egyptian taxi driver.O A Lindsey's Hers - fantastic, heartbreaking, confronting story about a Gulf War vet.Roxanne Gay's In the manner of water or light -
Highly addictive, mind altering, in-taking, influenced my dreams..... I thoroughly enjoyed this collection of stories. I thought, since it was free, it would be barely mediocre.... No such thing. I am so impressed with the high quality writing of almost every story in this book, the interesting, surprising characters. I felt like I got to visit other peoples worlds for a moment, with each new story. Thank you Harper! I am only giving it 4 stars because there is just too much cursing in the book
So, yeah, this took forever to read. It's a freebie from BookShout that I downloaded to have something to do at (?) a doctor's appointment. Anyway. Some good stories, some really excellent ones I'm still thinking about, and a couple I either skipped after one page or struggled through and wanted to kill myself for doing so. There wasn't really a theme, not that I could tell, except that I recognized none of the authors. Not bad. Feel free to skip the bad ones.
I mark this as 3 stars because while a handful of stories in this collection were wonderful - effortlessly beautiful prose and storytelling, with compelling characters - others I had to skip because the writing was so unconventional or dry. About 25 stories fell in the midrange - well-written but unremarkable.My favorites:"Eighty-Six Ways to Cross One Desert" by Alexander Lumans"Granaby" by Brandon Hobson"Hers" by OA Lindsey"Miss November" by Matthew Norman
With all the different authors included in this collection, I knew I had to read it. Some of these people are definite not-misses. The stories didn't disappoint either. As is to be expected, I got into some more than others. Still, there are some really good stories in here.
This is an enormously varied collection of short stories, both in subject matter and style. Some seem rather experimental and are hard to follow. Some I really liked. A good book if you want to read lots of different narrative styles, and discover some new authors.
Scorcher. Best stories were Lindsay Hunter and Kyle Minor.
A mixed bag, but there are a few gems.
Some of the stories were fantastic. Some were awful, and some were just strange. It did make for an interesting read. :)
