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A review by riotsquirrrl
The Winds of Marble Arch and Other Stories by Connie Willis
Did not finish book.
Sometimes you just need to know when to quit.
I was disappointed to check this book out of the library and find that that I'd read about half of the stories already in The Best of Connie Willis.
But I decided to push on and read the stories included in this 700 page tome that I hadn't read before. I was whelmed. That is until about halfway through, with a frivolous piece called Ado about how the teacher couldn't teach any Shakespeare because people objected to everything in the plays.
And then I read the story about incest and beastiality on a space station, and I was just done. I haven't been able to pick up the book in a week since that happened and so I'm just calling it quits.
I've already read all of Willis' best works, and given the abrupt tonal changes between Ado and All My Darling Daughters, I don't trust that I'm not going to be hit with more surprise incest. And with Ado directly before this piece, I can't help but see it as a sort of dare for us to not be like those prigs. But jeez, Connie Willis, maybe you could warn a person?
I was disappointed to check this book out of the library and find that that I'd read about half of the stories already in The Best of Connie Willis.
But I decided to push on and read the stories included in this 700 page tome that I hadn't read before. I was whelmed. That is until about halfway through, with a frivolous piece called Ado about how the teacher couldn't teach any Shakespeare because people objected to everything in the plays.
And then I read the story about incest and beastiality on a space station, and I was just done. I haven't been able to pick up the book in a week since that happened and so I'm just calling it quits.
I've already read all of Willis' best works, and given the abrupt tonal changes between Ado and All My Darling Daughters, I don't trust that I'm not going to be hit with more surprise incest. And with Ado directly before this piece, I can't help but see it as a sort of dare for us to not be like those prigs. But jeez, Connie Willis, maybe you could warn a person?