At first it was strong dislike, a lot of critique of the stories. And then there was less dislike, but I just could not come to like this book.I appreciate the effort, all that research into the country and its culture (repeated mention of ancestor worship, for instance) I know I wasn't born at that...
Oh my gawd, this was so boring. It started out OK, but was incredibly repetitive. Apparently hell is all about being denied pleasure (right?) and random torture that seems to either involve unpleasant ways to repeatedly die or frustration from lack of sex.It feels like the author tried to emulate...
This is the story of Michael and Kelly Hays. It tells us of how they met, married, lived and fell apart. Michael is a lawyer and an emotionally distant man. He has been raised to believe that simply by "being there" he has expressed his emotions. This is learned behavior from his emotionally distant...
This novel is set in Hell, and EVERYONE is there but no one, it seems, knows exactly why. While evening newscaster Hatcher McCord interviews some of Hell's prominent citizens in his "Why Are You Here?" series he learns from Dante's Beatrice (who's there too) about a possible back door way out. With ...
Forget everything you think you know about writing. Throw all the information you’ve obtained in school about how to write. All of that is useless. Writing doesn’t come from your logical, thoughtful brain. It’s really out of your control and it’s only when you let go of that control that you can wri...
This collection is pretty uneven. There are some really good stories and some not so good. The one that stands out in my mind is the Graham Masterson story, "The Seven Secret Senses" (I think that's the title). The protagonist is a young chef of Asian descent (yay) who gets approached by a strange, ...
Severance combines two theories: that consciousness is retained after decapitation for 90 seconds, and that, in heightened emotional states, people speak 160 words per minute. The book is sixty-two stories, at exactly 240 words each, from the heads of decapitated people: kings, queens, farmers, girl...
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