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theartolater's review against another edition
4.0
5 stars for my overall enjoyment, 4 stars for the success/failure, so closer to a 4.5
As short story collections go, some of these were wonderfully weird and among my favorites. Others try hard to be experimental on purpose and it doesn't always work. Thus is the joy of sitting and reading What Precision, Such Restraint, a short story book I must have snagged for Kindle at some point during some weird fiction binge, but only got around to now.
The stories do get progressively stranger, with the final ones in particular being very out there, but some of the shorter early tales are really great even if they're strange. That's the point, and this is a great model to try things out. I really, really enjoyed my time with it.
Overall, I know this won't appeal to everyone, but if you've been dabbling in the weird stuff lately, this is worth some of your time.
As short story collections go, some of these were wonderfully weird and among my favorites. Others try hard to be experimental on purpose and it doesn't always work. Thus is the joy of sitting and reading What Precision, Such Restraint, a short story book I must have snagged for Kindle at some point during some weird fiction binge, but only got around to now.
The stories do get progressively stranger, with the final ones in particular being very out there, but some of the shorter early tales are really great even if they're strange. That's the point, and this is a great model to try things out. I really, really enjoyed my time with it.
Overall, I know this won't appeal to everyone, but if you've been dabbling in the weird stuff lately, this is worth some of your time.
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