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A review by bookisheunoia
Short Cuts: Selected Stories by Raymond Carver
3.0
꧁ 3 stars ꧂
not amazing, but not terrible either. it's a collection of stories about middle aged married couples and their marriage problems, so i didn't have high expectations. some stories really felt lackluster and had no real purpose or message, but some others were touching and felt complete. overall, i was just confused most of the time, since carver really doesn't like to spell it out for you. anyways, it's a quick, easy read.
my favorite of the collection was 'a small, good thing', perhaps followed by 'tell the women we're going' (which is so strange that it's interesting). i wish 'so much water so close to home' would just tell us if the husband and his clique of men killed the girl?? but it says nothing and i'm just so confused. my least favorite of the bunch was probably 'jerry and molly and sam' because it was just boring and the title makes no sense (who even is sam??).
anyways... some of the short stories were really good, and some were really boring. thanks ib i guess.
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not amazing, but not terrible either. it's a collection of stories about middle aged married couples and their marriage problems, so i didn't have high expectations. some stories really felt lackluster and had no real purpose or message, but some others were touching and felt complete. overall, i was just confused most of the time, since carver really doesn't like to spell it out for you. anyways, it's a quick, easy read.
my favorite of the collection was 'a small, good thing', perhaps followed by 'tell the women we're going' (which is so strange that it's interesting). i wish 'so much water so close to home' would just tell us if the husband and his clique of men killed the girl?? but it says nothing and i'm just so confused. my least favorite of the bunch was probably 'jerry and molly and sam' because it was just boring and the title makes no sense (who even is sam??).
anyways... some of the short stories were really good, and some were really boring. thanks ib i guess.
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