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srogan88's review against another edition
1.0
I don’t care that I skimmed the last 3 stories. I’m counting it as completely read because I suffered through it for over three months despite finding it almost unreadable.
As with any book, I’m sure there is an audience out there. I am not it. Bizarre characters whose actions made no sense in completely absurdist situations are not my thing. The least “out there” story in the book may be the titular “Blues for a Black Cat” - in which a talking cat drinks himself to death in a bar.
Why, you may ask, would I stick with a book for so long when I wasn't enjoying it? I've been good lately about moving on if I don't connect in a reasonable time. But this book was short, it was a souvenir from Paris, and it has a black cat on it. None of which are good enough reasons.
As with any book, I’m sure there is an audience out there. I am not it. Bizarre characters whose actions made no sense in completely absurdist situations are not my thing. The least “out there” story in the book may be the titular “Blues for a Black Cat” - in which a talking cat drinks himself to death in a bar.
Why, you may ask, would I stick with a book for so long when I wasn't enjoying it? I've been good lately about moving on if I don't connect in a reasonable time. But this book was short, it was a souvenir from Paris, and it has a black cat on it. None of which are good enough reasons.
litsirk's review against another edition
2.0
2.5. Definitely feel like "early" stories, surreal flairs and pleasingly unique turns of phrase minus the feeling and substance that I got from the other two books of his I read. "Dead Fish" was the closest to leaving a mark, and yet it's so toxically dreary I can't say I liked it.
gabriela_rus's review against another edition
2.0
It wasn't a good time for this book for me, it annoyed me, although I admit it's a pretty good brain-twister.
nini23's review
Whores, STD, war, black cats drinking cognac to their death - so droll. Written more than 70 years ago, Boris Vian heard Duke Ellington play, was a protégé of Sartre and knew Simone de Beauvoir, as gushingly told in the introduction. It was a different time and thank goodness now women occupy more varied roles.
vilde_a's review against another edition
4.0
This is so wonderfully weird, absolutely loved it! A bit hard to read in a second language though.
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