This is another re-read for me, in preparation of finishing off the rest of the books in the series. It went a lot faster this time around, partly because I didn't have to stop every third page to look up what a gom jabbar was, or who the Kwisatz Haderach was, or what the shai hulud was. In fact, ...
When Jackson writes about hauntings or murders you can pretend that you are reading about the unusual. You don't have that luxury with these short stories. Here the quotidian cruelties, the pettiness, the dishonesty and selfishness of ordinary people are not softened by the distracting gloss of insa...
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