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A review by endocranium
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, Found Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts by Matthew Vollmer, David Shields
3.0
Disclaimer: I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway.
I started off really intrigued by the format alone - it's an anthology of fake texts made up of a large variety of mediums, so it reads like a crime novel or something.
As for the writing, some of the stories were good and some meh. "Officer's Weep" was fantastic, as was "About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition," which I would have read based on the name alone, in all honesty. If you're debating purchasing the book I might suggest looking for those stories on their own part, rather than buying the whole book, as a lot of the stories didn't really draw me in and felt a little bit ridiculous.
Overall, though, an interesting read especially if you're interested in creative writing and alternative formats for story anthologies.
I started off really intrigued by the format alone - it's an anthology of fake texts made up of a large variety of mediums, so it reads like a crime novel or something.
As for the writing, some of the stories were good and some meh. "Officer's Weep" was fantastic, as was "About the Typefaces Not Used in This Edition," which I would have read based on the name alone, in all honesty. If you're debating purchasing the book I might suggest looking for those stories on their own part, rather than buying the whole book, as a lot of the stories didn't really draw me in and felt a little bit ridiculous.
Overall, though, an interesting read especially if you're interested in creative writing and alternative formats for story anthologies.