Jay Gummerman
Teoksen We Find Ourselves in Moontown tekijä
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- #303,173
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- 2.9
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The stories all start out nicely enough, Gummerman can draw you in, they all just peter-out into character studies and aimless noodling, like some literary equivalent of an extended twenty-minute drum solo at a jam band concert. That can be OK for one song, maybe, but if that's all there is on the slate I'm going to take my attention elsewhere. In a novel prose like that can be important, even necessary, but short stories can't support that kind of nonsense. The better quality stories, like "The Camera", "Pinocchio's" or "Fred's Lid" are the ones that keep on track the longest but even they don't quite make it.… (lisätietoja)