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A review by ashleylm
Amphigorey Too by Edward Gorey
3.0
A mix of decent, good, and disappointing short tales (and some hardly amounting to tale-dom, e.g. a nursey frieze). I've reviewed all the contents separately. Taken overall, this is not a must-read to the extent that Amphigorey was, not remotely. That was the greatest hits album, and this is a collection of other songs for the completists among us.
I hold out hope that I will enjoy the third and fourth volumes more, with my new, lowered expectations.
I also should point out that my edition, hilariously, sports a massive error on that initial page which lists publication dates etc. … it’s got the details for the contents of the original Amphigorey. So it proudly lists the original publication dates for "The Fatal Lozenge" or "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" but remains mum on the contents for this book. Copy and paste error? Surprised no one caught it.
(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. But these aren't ratings of quality, they're a subjective account of how much I liked the book: 5* = an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)
I hold out hope that I will enjoy the third and fourth volumes more, with my new, lowered expectations.
I also should point out that my edition, hilariously, sports a massive error on that initial page which lists publication dates etc. … it’s got the details for the contents of the original Amphigorey. So it proudly lists the original publication dates for "The Fatal Lozenge" or "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" but remains mum on the contents for this book. Copy and paste error? Surprised no one caught it.
(Note: I'm a writer, so I suffer when I offer fewer than five stars. But these aren't ratings of quality, they're a subjective account of how much I liked the book: 5* = an unalloyed pleasure from start to finish, 4* = enjoyed it, 3* = readable but not thrilling, 2* = disappointing, and 1* = hated it.)