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A review by macabresiren
From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness by Thomas F. Monteleone, Elizabeth E. Monteleone
3.0
You can tell how well I enjoyed a book by how long it took me to read. This one, clock in at 20 days. Now given your own opinion & reading speed that could be either fast or slow, for me, it's slow. Very slow. I've read books several inches thicker than this one in far less time. A book of short stories like this should have taken me no more than 2-3 days, through the week. But here we are. Nearly three weeks after my beginning it. I'm finally finished.
Given how much the editors talked this up at the beginning, I had prepared myself for something spectacular. Instead I found a largely cliche book of short stories with a few gems hidden here and there. Stories like "A Thing" and "The Food Processor" stick in my head as being particularly horrible. (Maybe I just lack a certain understanding, but....I doubt it.)
Father Bob & Bobby was particularly...well, it was one of those stories where certain scenes of it embed themselves into your brain.
I don't know. I wanted to love this collection. It just seemed like for all the blathering in the introduction regarding the quality of the stories, I went forward expecting a whole lot more.
Given how much the editors talked this up at the beginning, I had prepared myself for something spectacular. Instead I found a largely cliche book of short stories with a few gems hidden here and there. Stories like "A Thing" and "The Food Processor" stick in my head as being particularly horrible. (Maybe I just lack a certain understanding, but....I doubt it.)
Father Bob & Bobby was particularly...well, it was one of those stories where certain scenes of it embed themselves into your brain.
I don't know. I wanted to love this collection. It just seemed like for all the blathering in the introduction regarding the quality of the stories, I went forward expecting a whole lot more.