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A review by myweereads
Voices in the Night by Steven Millhauser
3.0
“There is a restless so terrible that you can no longer bear to sit still in your house. You walk from room to room like someone visiting a deserted town.”
Author Steven Millhauser was new to me almost 5 years ago. I began reading this book however I never quite finished it and so I decided to pick it up again and read it in its entirety.
This collection contains sixteen short stories. To say these are a little bizarre is an understatement. What appears is that the author delves deep into what makes humans tick. By presenting his characters in unthinkable and ordinary situations, the reader is a witness to this experiment of how they will deal with their situations.
Some of the stories stem from mythology, others are disturbing yet funny or provocative and unsettling. I seen somewhere that these stories were almost like the X Files. I would say a few are from the same nerve however Black Mirror comes to mind with a few of the others.
Quite a few of the stories I enjoyed however there were a some which weren’t my cup of coffee.
Author Steven Millhauser was new to me almost 5 years ago. I began reading this book however I never quite finished it and so I decided to pick it up again and read it in its entirety.
This collection contains sixteen short stories. To say these are a little bizarre is an understatement. What appears is that the author delves deep into what makes humans tick. By presenting his characters in unthinkable and ordinary situations, the reader is a witness to this experiment of how they will deal with their situations.
Some of the stories stem from mythology, others are disturbing yet funny or provocative and unsettling. I seen somewhere that these stories were almost like the X Files. I would say a few are from the same nerve however Black Mirror comes to mind with a few of the others.
Quite a few of the stories I enjoyed however there were a some which weren’t my cup of coffee.