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Lone Ranger & Tonto Fistfight In..
by Sherman Alexie
I just consumed this book in one sitting, for good reasons and bad.
Good: Alexie writes very smoothly; he definitely gets his picture of life on the Spokane reservation across...
Bad: ...repeatedly. As in, halfway through the book I was thinking, "I get it. I get it." Also, I did not know this was going to be a book of short stories, and because the first few seemed loosely connected (they all seem to be about Victor) it really lost me when it wandered off into the other stories which were only connected by the barest of threads.
I had a really hard time following some of the stories which included a few paragraphs in the present, then a few paragraphs of flashback, then present, then flashback... my head was spinning. Also, the prose spirals off into the nonsensical in places and that type of trippy musing doesn't really appeal to me.
I'm still willing to check out some of Alexie's other books, but it's more on the strength of how much I loved The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian than on any love for his short stories. Hopefully he has some other novels that are a single narrative.
Oh, and I guess I'm going to have to watch Smoke Signals again, as Alexie wrote it based off of this book. I saw it years ago and really liked it and I'd like to see how it compares.
Good: Alexie writes very smoothly; he definitely gets his picture of life on the Spokane reservation across...
Bad: ...repeatedly. As in, halfway through the book I was thinking, "I get it. I get it." Also, I did not know this was going to be a book of short stories, and because the first few seemed loosely connected (they all seem to be about Victor) it really lost me when it wandered off into the other stories which were only connected by the barest of threads.
I had a really hard time following some of the stories which included a few paragraphs in the present, then a few paragraphs of flashback, then present, then flashback... my head was spinning. Also, the prose spirals off into the nonsensical in places and that type of trippy musing doesn't really appeal to me.
I'm still willing to check out some of Alexie's other books, but it's more on the strength of how much I loved The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian than on any love for his short stories. Hopefully he has some other novels that are a single narrative.
Oh, and I guess I'm going to have to watch Smoke Signals again, as Alexie wrote it based off of this book. I saw it years ago and really liked it and I'd like to see how it compares.