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A review by krisandburn
The Unbelievable Death of Joseph Goldberg and Other Stories by Oliver Franks
4.0
This is a collection of four short stories to test the waters for this new author.
These stories were weird and wonderful. The title story spoke to me the most as the setting was familiar to me. I have seen the flocks of starlings over the Old Pier at Brighton, so I had no trouble visualising that one at all.
All four of these stories are slightly odd, but strangely interesting. Although I felt the writing was a bit rough around the edges I ended up enjoying them quite a bit. Better, they left me wanting to read more. Especially the final story called Without The Simple Science I feel could be a fragment from a dystopian novel that I would like to read.
I am not sure I would recommend reading this short story collection especially, but I will be checking out one of this author’s full length novels.
These stories were weird and wonderful. The title story spoke to me the most as the setting was familiar to me. I have seen the flocks of starlings over the Old Pier at Brighton, so I had no trouble visualising that one at all.
All four of these stories are slightly odd, but strangely interesting. Although I felt the writing was a bit rough around the edges I ended up enjoying them quite a bit. Better, they left me wanting to read more. Especially the final story called Without The Simple Science I feel could be a fragment from a dystopian novel that I would like to read.
I am not sure I would recommend reading this short story collection especially, but I will be checking out one of this author’s full length novels.