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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
dark
fast-paced
Undoubtedly my favorite Saunders work of all time. I think about Ghoul everyday…
challenging
medium-paced
4.5 — a timely collection of stories about restraining oneself from doing the right thing to blend in / doing the “right thing” with deadly consequences. I got some good giggles out of it + love the speculative fiction blend of the title story
I enjoyed most of the stories. It took a few pages to really understand what each was about and that was hard to repeat so frequently throughout the book, making it take a little longer to read than I expected. Overall I wanted to know more about the characters in the stories, particularly those with memory erasure, so I give it 3 stars.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
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:
Complicated
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
I’m a sucker for short stories, and George Saunders does them like no one else. His ability to look out so deeply and truly from such a menagerie of minds, without pretentiousness, is unrivaled. I haven’t loved all of his works, but this one I certainly did.
slow-paced