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bobbygw's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
Painfully slow, tedious, convoluted narratives. Tortuous sentences abound, riddled with multiple clauses. Exhausting.
dracademic's review against another edition
Mostly wanted to read the hunger artist that is a masterpiece. Also read a couple more.
beth_jwilliams's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Always interesting and bizarre from Kafka.
kahell's review against another edition
3.5
A little bit of everything from Kafka: short stories, aphorisms, flash fiction, the mini travelogues he loves so much. The first part of this collection (Four Stories) was considerably better than the later parts, with two of them (A Hunger Artist and Josefine the Singer) being two of the most poignant, albeit opposite, takes on artistry I have ever read. In the latter parts I liked A Country Doctor and A Report to an Academy.
ayushi88's review against another edition
4.0
Need to read again because the only word I can come up with at the moment is- Kafkaesque.
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