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shaun_trinh 's review for:
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
This was a really nice read. At first I had a hard time getting into the stories because I didn't think I'd like their premeses from the first page. But once I let myself just read them without any expectations I found myself wanting more and more from each story. Not wanting any of them to end. Now for some of them I still felt like it was a slog to get through, but after looking over all the stories that I liked, I was surprised by just how many I really enjoyed.
Another thing I first thought was a downside, but now look at as something beneficial, is that a lot of these stories don't have obvious allegories, and that when I finished them I felt like I had missed something. If these stories were all very surface level, or dumbed down to make sure that everything was easily understandable on the first read, it would have taken the complexity that each story was trying to convey. Not only that but this complexity gives me the opportunity to go back to any story and discover a different theme or message that I didn't see on my first time around.
The last benefit I'll mention is the diverse creative liberty that the author took with each story. There were multiple different types of characters, relationship dynamics, cultures and environments, as well as a wide range of story telling formats used. Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory is far from being a one note series of short stories and was worth the almost full month it took me to read it.
My favorites were:
- Missed Connection - m4w
- Lies We Told Each Other
- These Are Facts
- Rufus
- Rules For Taboo
- Up and Comers
- You Want To Know What Plays Are Like
- The Poem
- The Average of All Possible Things
- Most Of You That You Already Are
Another thing I first thought was a downside, but now look at as something beneficial, is that a lot of these stories don't have obvious allegories, and that when I finished them I felt like I had missed something. If these stories were all very surface level, or dumbed down to make sure that everything was easily understandable on the first read, it would have taken the complexity that each story was trying to convey. Not only that but this complexity gives me the opportunity to go back to any story and discover a different theme or message that I didn't see on my first time around.
The last benefit I'll mention is the diverse creative liberty that the author took with each story. There were multiple different types of characters, relationship dynamics, cultures and environments, as well as a wide range of story telling formats used. Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory is far from being a one note series of short stories and was worth the almost full month it took me to read it.
My favorites were:
- Missed Connection - m4w
- Lies We Told Each Other
- These Are Facts
- Rufus
- Rules For Taboo
- Up and Comers
- You Want To Know What Plays Are Like
- The Poem
- The Average of All Possible Things
- Most Of You That You Already Are