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lunacueva's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
hunterandrew's review against another edition
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Collection of short stories, oddly hard to follow along since a lot of the stories seemed like derivatives of one another. Last short story was heart wrenching, if they had all been written the way that one had it would have been a much better collection. Deeply human, like trying to grasp at fading memories.
hswhite's review against another edition
2.0
Was going to give it 3 stars but the title story was so “meh” it brought the whole collection down. I remember loving A Sport and a Pastime, so I was hoping for better. Oh well, might give him another shot farther down the road.
tstuppy's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed many of these stories--a lot of them felt very true. Read it in three or four chunks between other books.
veecaswell's review against another edition
2.0
Good prose but in every story he spends an incredible amount of time explaining the degradation of women's bodies. I wanted to read about people and all I got was objects.
essjay1's review against another edition
5.0
Loved this collection of short stories. The final story - Last Night - is fabulous but I also really enjoyed Give, Comet & Such Fun. Such a keen observer of human nature.
pattydsf's review against another edition
3.0
Once again, I have Shelf Awareness to thank for the introduction to James Salter. Yes, I sort of knew who he was, and yes, I knew he is critically acclaimed. But I am not sure I would have picked up anything by him, if I hadn't been on such a roll with books recommended by writers in the Book Brahmin column.
Short stories intrigue me. The reader only gets a slice of the character's lives and that is so true with James Salter. In these ten stories, you enter right in the middle. Things have happened before and life will go on after. Right now, in the story something is happening and the reader knows it will be important; Salter is asking us to pay attention. Possibly because we will never know the whole story. There is an epiphany in each of these tales, but that moment can be in the story, before or even after.
I think Salter may become one of those authors I think about more after the fact than during my reading. His sentences are lovely and the characters are fascinating although I doubt I could be friends with them.
I recommend this book to lovers of short stories, for others they may be very disconcerting. Also fiction writers should read Salter as inspiration to their own work.
Short stories intrigue me. The reader only gets a slice of the character's lives and that is so true with James Salter. In these ten stories, you enter right in the middle. Things have happened before and life will go on after. Right now, in the story something is happening and the reader knows it will be important; Salter is asking us to pay attention. Possibly because we will never know the whole story. There is an epiphany in each of these tales, but that moment can be in the story, before or even after.
I think Salter may become one of those authors I think about more after the fact than during my reading. His sentences are lovely and the characters are fascinating although I doubt I could be friends with them.
I recommend this book to lovers of short stories, for others they may be very disconcerting. Also fiction writers should read Salter as inspiration to their own work.
loonyboi's review
5.0
Magnificent. Every story in this collection is wonderful. My only regret is how short a volume it is. I could read it forever.
goncalomira's review against another edition
2.0
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