Reviews of book: The Vintage Book of Amnesia: An Anthology of Writing on the Subject of Memory Loss - Edmund White, Walker Percy, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Haruki Murakami, Karen Joy Fowler, Julio Cortázar, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Sheckley, Oliver Sacks, Russell Hoban, Thomas M. Disch, Shirley Jackson, Flann O'Brien, Kelly Link, Geo • BookLikes

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by Edmund White, Walker Percy, Jorge Luis Borges, Vladimir Nabokov, Haruki Murakami, Karen Joy Fowler, Julio Cortázar, Philip K. Dick, Martin Amis, Jonathan Lethem, Robert Sheckley, Oliver Sacks, Russell Hoban, Thomas M. Disch, Shirley Jackson, Flann O'Brien, Kelly Link, Geo

Randolph "Dilda" Carter rated it

10 years ago

text Forgettable

Two problems with this book. First, the title is misleading since only about 1/5 or the stories (and a couple of essays) deal with what I would call amnesia, the rest could mostly be loosely defined as mind or memory stories, and about 1/10 just don't belong here. They must have been editor favorite...

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