rgombert's review

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3.0

An interesting anthology.
I'm left feeling not strange, but put off. Some stories were entertaining in the breaking the wall between reader and story (like a play breaking the forth wall). Some, however, were just not very good.

alexanderp's review

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4.0

This was more of an educational experience for me, considering slipstream is brand new to me and my first real foray into true "weird" lit.

Most of these stories to me deserve a re-read, but for now I'm going to let them sit with me and marinate.

The few that to me were especially good and provided the most coherent "read" were really good, but it also proved to me that slipstream really defies everything about genre and literary categories in a way that nothing else has in my experience, truely slipping away into a fast moving stream...

My favorites were:
The Healer by Aimee Bender
Light and the Sufferer by Jonathan Lethem
Sea Oak by George Saunders
Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang
Bright Morning by Jeffery Ford
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