ensaxy 's review for:

Bad Behavior: Stories by Mary Gaitskill

4.0

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more of a 3.5 rounded up deal, mostly because i was not consistently drawn to every short (although this may just be a me and short stories thing.) i really loved the last one and the one right before secretary (which was the reason i read the collection in the first place and ended up being one of my least favorites. having seen the movie first (and loving it), the tone of the short felt sufficiently different in an expectation-crushing sort of way. again - no fault of the author's, but it wasn't what i wanted.) that said, the characters are all fascinating (even when the stories aren't), and some of their thinking felt acutely familiar (even if their circumstances weren't.) also pretty sexy if you're into that with your reading ;)