Among other birthday gifts this year, I received The Best American Short Stories 2007.
I haven’t started yet.
But I have read a lot of the “Reviews” by customers on amazon.com, and they remind me that you just can’t trust other people’s opinions. In order to even come close, you have to find a reviewer whose taste you trust, then go with it.
Some samples:
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“First of all the stories by… Gay… Munro, Pollack, Russo… should not have been included under any circumstances. They we’re quite bad.”
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“Among the best stories are Alice Munro’s… Eileen Pollack’s… William Gay’s… and Richard Russo’s….
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“L. DeBard and Aliette grinds on and on in a fragmented attempt to be “literary” but, even with a token castration thrown in, ends up being tedious and, frankly, pretentious.”
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“Oh man, you’ve got to read: L. Debard and Aliette: A Love Story by Lauren Groff. Grade-A A bizarre love story circa the flu epidemic of 1918. It’s enjoyably twisted and includes a castration scene.”
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Can’t wait to dig in.
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