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Charles Yu
Birth date: January 03, 1976
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EpicFehlReader
EpicFehlReader rated it 7 years ago
With only TAMMY - a slightly tearful computer with self-esteem issues - a software boss called Phil - Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0 - and an imaginary dog called Ed for company, fixing time machines is a lonely business and Charles Yu is stuck in a rut. He's spent the better part of a decade navel-ga...
Portable Magic
Portable Magic rated it 9 years ago
I wanted to like this steampunky-themed book of short-stories, but it tried too hard at cleverness and told essentially uninteresting stories. The text does not deliver on what the fascinating illustrations promise. I gave it 78 pages, 18 beyond my minimum 50, and gave it up.
The English Student
The English Student rated it 9 years ago
This book was a lot of fun. I raced through it in the course of two train journeys, which feels appropriate, because it's a book about time, and it's a book about travel. OK, it's a book about time travel, but it places emphasis on both elements of that phrase, and wow, is it clever. Our Narrato...
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge
An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it 10 years ago
I thought the title story was the best. I thought the last story was pretty good. The other stories weren't bad, but there's a sameness to them that makes it difficult to distinguish one from the other in my mind. I think Yu has definitely grown as a writer from this book which is good. I don't en...
CarlAlves
CarlAlves rated it 10 years ago
In most of the anthologies that I've read there are often some good stories, some bad stories, and some in between. The end result is that I usually feel ambivalent. When I first started reading Shadow Show, I thought this anthology would be more of the same after reading the first story, which was ...
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