plotprecise's Reviews (202)

slow-paced
funny hopeful reflective fast-paced

My favourite D.S. book so far. A nice mix of autobiographical and fictive stories. Really funny.
adventurous challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

For all the low-hanging jokes about the film, this short story is an exceptional piece of writing. 

Lots of great lines such as:

  • ...swapping the bottle while the lavender sky emptied of color and the chill air drained down...

  • A slow corrosion worked between Ennis and Alma, no real trouble, just widening water...

  • "You know, friend, this is a goddam bitch of a unsatisfactory situation. You used a come away easy. It’s like seein the Pope now."

  • Count the damn few times we been together in twenty years. Measure the fuckin short leash you keep me on…

  •  
    ...his dirty shirt, the pocket ripped, buttons missing, stolen by Jack and hidden here inside Jack’s own shirt, the pair like two skins, one inside the other, two in one.
fast-paced

Animated short story where outer space aliens are
Immigration-Customs Service Officers
and humans
or 'earthers' are treated like the intruders.
tense

The daydreaming sequences were vivd especially the medical one and in the courtroom.