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robotnic's review against another edition
3.0
3, nudging towards 3.5. I love Villoro's style of writing, his descriptions and phrasings. He paints short story characters in surprising detail – but I couldn't quite get to grips with them because they were so concerned with preserving and almost celebrating masculinity. There's more to this in hindsight, but in the reading I struggled to spend time with his men. It's a good collection, and an antidote to a lot of ubiquitous American thinking, but something fell short for me.
el_librero_de_bea's review against another edition
5.0
Cuentos divertidos con un lenguaje sencillo. Saca a sus personajes de sus zonas de confort y es muy divertido verlos navegar esa vida.
No me gustó: el crepúsculo maya
No me gustó: el crepúsculo maya
rebeccalm's review against another edition
2.0
An interesting collection of quite dark and intense short stories. The premise of each was unique, but never felt developed enough or resolved enough for my taste.
sab4's review
2.0
I don't know if this book lost its essence in translation, or perhaps is meant to read in its original language...this book wasn't doing it for me at all. It took me such a long time to finish and I contemplated just returning it without completing it, but I guess the silver lining is that it's so short I forced myself to finish. I really didn't understand the stories one bit. A shame I didn't enjoy this since this author is said to be really good.
alternbruno's review against another edition
5.0
Estos libros alimentan a los demonios interiores y juegan billar con los fantasmas de sus propias alusones. Deben procurarse lo más que se pueda.