Lorrie Moore
Birth date: January 13, 1957
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I enjoyed Moore's "How to Become a Writer" in college. I didn't really enjoy this collection though. These stories didn't do anything for me. I kept having flashbacks to creative writing class.
It's good to know that white women have the equal opportunity to suck at writing and publishing as white men do. If you ever feel tempted, my advice is that you should pick up the book from library, sit down to read the first short story of this collection, then put the book back on the shelf and ...
Boring and generally joyless. The writing is ok, which is why it manages the 3 stars it does, but these are just the type of stories I tend to avoid, the type of stories that take - take my time, take my energy - and give nothing back. Not for me.
There was so much I didn't like about this book. First, I couldn't decide if the characters' shtick was supposed to be actually funny, or just a sad attempt to paper over really serious situations with terrible comedic references and puns. Second, I couldn't decide if the conversations about race we...
This just didn't work for me. It was not necessarily badly written, but short stories are so very hard to get just right, and I don't feel like these managed at all. I'm not sure I can honestly say I liked a single one of them, though I came close with a few of them. And then they ended. Mostly...
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