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Narration: 4 stars 🌟 Stories : 4 stars 🌟 ---Nice revisiting the one I read before and hearing the "new to me" ones. A good quick read while running 🏃♀️ around *Audible audio *
I loved every story in the collection.
This was my first time reading/listening to anything by this author. On that note, I love books like this-lots of strange short stories that leave you guessing until the very end, only to leave you questioning what you just read in the first place. I listened to this in audiobook form, after my husband recommended it to me, and couldn't get enough of it.
Goodreads calls this an "appetizer" and a "dessert for passionate Weir fans." I loved The Martian and Project Hail Mary and I really didn't understand the point of this collection. Was it bad? No. But was it necessary? Absolutely not. Another reviewer said that these short stories read like they were answers to writing prompts and I have to agree. I feel like if Weir had worked a little bit longer on any of these stories we could have had one good novella, instead of nine mediocre short stories....
The genre of short stories- intelligent and quirky ones- the ones that make you catch your breath at the end of it all, is something that I love. My first encounter with Andy Weir was in the Martian, which I enjoyed immensely. I took up The Egg and Other Stories with no less expectation, and I should say that this collection really did justice to the reputation of the author. The genre of short stories has certain greats like Edgar Allan Poe down to Roald Dahl and the redoubtable Jeffrey Archer....
I've never been a fan of short story collections, but I liked The Martian so much I figured I'd give it a try. Plus, I felt as though "The Egg" was another play on Andy's Mork & Mindy theme. I finished this in one day, all the stories were good. Yes, some better than others... But all of them were good. Highly recommend 👍
*Score: 8/10*A collection of 9 short stories, some are Science Fiction, some are Contemporary, but all share similar structure of trying to make the reader a bit disoriented till the end with some sort of twist.Pros:- Nice mix of funny, tragic, and just plain weird - All are very short, but the twists tend to make them memorable- The Egg is definitely the highlight, very interesting concept and has the best twistCons:- I wish it had more stories, or a couple of longer ones, way too short. Some i...
A collection of nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. From the alien with no name to the lady in the shower when an intruder enters her house to the lady in the mental hospital who fancies herself a chef to the man who dies in a car crash and meets God, the reader is surprised by the climax of each and every story.Some stories included in this audio-exclusive collection are:"Access""Antihypoxiant""Annie's Day""The Real Deal"
Awesome collection of short stories by Andy Weir.
The Egg and Other Storiesby Andy Weir Oh my gosh! This book was so fantastic! It has a bunch of short twisty stories that grab you right away but twist your head around at the end! I laughed at the ending of a few the re-reading listened to them! ( After I had the complete story!) What a hoot! My favorites are "Access" about a girl with a special power. Then "Annie's Day" which is simply a day in the life of Annie! Hahaha!Narration was flawless!
This is a collection of very short “surprise” fiction—by which I mean that each story ends with a surprise for the reader—something to make you think—something you didn’t see coming. It is not at all what I expected from the author of The Martian which is a hard science adventure story, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. Within a couple of stories, I was reading to figure out what the trick would be, and they were always fun. So here’s a different side of author, Andy Weir, and I’m betting you w...
9 tantalizing short stories, some sweet, some bitter and a few with bite. Short listen but a few tales are still rolling in my head. Enjoy!5/5 short little penguins.
Free | Andy Weir can't write women, and the voice acting in this makes it so much more obvious. Very flat and obvious story telling, with "twists" that made me roll my eyes. The voice actors were emphasizing words in the sentences that were not the ones people would emphasize in speech, which just called attention to how awkwardly structured they were.
I really liked this set of short stories. Some of them were a little corny, but I liked them nevertheless.Any problems? The endings are supposed to be a surprise. You think the story is going one way when it suddenly takes a turn and changes your perspective. What you thought was sinister was actually innocent. What you thought was innocent was actually sinister. That sort of trick gets old after a while. Any modesty issues? Some of the subjects are obviously sexual in nature even though sex is
