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A review by just_fighting_censorship
The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales by Chris Van Allsburg
4.0
Love the concept of these writters putting together a short story based on the wonderful illustations of Chris Van Allsburg.
The best story hands down has to be M. T. Anderson's 'Just Desert', a masterpiece of short erie fiction. I think I will buy this book for my own collection based solely on this well written, gripping tale.
I also really enjoyed 'A strange day in July', 'The third-floor bedroom', and 'Another Place, Another time'
However there were a few stories that were a complete miss for me such as Jules Feiffer's 'Uninvited guests' which to me shouldn't even count as a story since there is no narrative arc whatsoever. I was also extremely dissapointed in Stephen King's piece which I found to be long, boring, and quite unimaginative.
Aside from these duds, a great collection of odd tales.
The best story hands down has to be M. T. Anderson's 'Just Desert', a masterpiece of short erie fiction. I think I will buy this book for my own collection based solely on this well written, gripping tale.
I also really enjoyed 'A strange day in July', 'The third-floor bedroom', and 'Another Place, Another time'
However there were a few stories that were a complete miss for me such as Jules Feiffer's 'Uninvited guests' which to me shouldn't even count as a story since there is no narrative arc whatsoever. I was also extremely dissapointed in Stephen King's piece which I found to be long, boring, and quite unimaginative.
Aside from these duds, a great collection of odd tales.