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gadicohen93's review against another edition
2.0
Ahhh was this book hard to read. Style just takes Content and beats him up like it's nobody's business. Slashes his face like the Mob. Plot-blood splatters newly-printed pages in a million little red continents.
I enjoyed the writing of the short stories, but the stories themselves? I would give them a 1/5. Lutz just doesn't give a shit about linking all of his little gems into some kind of coherent jewel. I disliked so many of the things he did that made his plots seem dishonest and artificial and so damn unrealistic. Uch, I was so frustrated so much of the time, more than I was stunned (the writing is wondrous, a frontier-pusher, but still!)
For my fiction class, I guess the book looks like it could be a good teacher of good writing, but bad fiction.
I enjoyed the writing of the short stories, but the stories themselves? I would give them a 1/5. Lutz just doesn't give a shit about linking all of his little gems into some kind of coherent jewel. I disliked so many of the things he did that made his plots seem dishonest and artificial and so damn unrealistic. Uch, I was so frustrated so much of the time, more than I was stunned (the writing is wondrous, a frontier-pusher, but still!)
For my fiction class, I guess the book looks like it could be a good teacher of good writing, but bad fiction.
pickle_burner's review against another edition
4.0
Lutz’s style is refreshing, ruthless, full of humor and brutal depression all at once. The voice of one story is practically imperceptibly different from the voices of the other stories. I found myself frequently laughing out loud, texting favorite sentences to friends. Also, bc Lutz is so singular in voice, it’s much like listening to the music of Roscoe Holcomb or Skip James — so intense that you can only really take it in little bits, but when you do they are minute overwhelming masterpieces.
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