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Tenth of December: Stories

George Saunders

3.98 AVERAGE

elliewibb's review against another edition

1.5

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

brettbarney's review against another edition

4.0

dark funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alextheokay1984's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

connorfrown's review against another edition

5.0

Beautiful, maddening, frightening, heartbreaking. Two times this year I have read a George Saunders collection in a day. I think that alone should be a selling point. I have thought about the stories in Civilwarland every day since reading it. I do not see this collection being any different in terms of impact. The title story alone is worth the price of the book. Everything a book should be is in the writing of Saunders.

lenny_ray's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

emilyjeanwright's review against another edition

2.0

2.5 stars
NYT BBoTC #54

I found this to be a waste of time for about 60% of the book. There were a couple of stories that I did understand the subliminal message in but the vast majority of them went over my head and honestly just felt like weird short stories written to get out of writer's block. I wouldn't recommend this book to literally anyone and I would love to know the NYT's reasoning for putting it on their list.