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The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection by Grania Davis, Robert Silverberg, Avram Davidson
ianl1963's review
3.0
For me some good, bad and rather strange.
Interesting style, still perplexed how unknown to me.
Short stories in collections should maybe be dipped into then put down, reading continuously maybe loses something that was originally there.
Interesting style, still perplexed how unknown to me.
Short stories in collections should maybe be dipped into then put down, reading continuously maybe loses something that was originally there.
kb_208's review
2.0
I wish I could like this book more, but I just couldn't get into the stories that well. He writes in a way that I really like, but the stories were just not very compelling. He is often slated as a sci-fi writer, though I don't find any of these stories to be in that direction. These are more in the mystery vein.
rubel's review
3.0
I didn't finish it, but I'd like to go back and pick out a few more stories. Some of them were delightful in their creepy whimsy, but some I just couldn't get rolling with. I'm sure there's more to this author, but it's back to the library for him for now.
ianbanks's review
4.0
It’s depressing reading the tributes to Mr Davidson in this book as many of them are coming from people who have also passed away in the 22 years since this was published. It’s hard to review a volume of short stories because the temptation is to feel guilty if you don’t examine every single one. So I’m just going to point out that Davidson was a highly original writer with a loquacious and wry style that is totally in my wheelhouse. I was, however, occasionally stymied by the jarring differences in theme and content and voice from story to story, which is completely my own problem and not that of the editors and definitely not of Davidson himself.
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