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Ladataan... Straw House, Wood House, Brick House, Blow: Four Novellas by Daniel NayeriTekijä: Daniel Nayeri
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A collection of four novellas in different genres, including a western about a farmer who grows living toys and a rancher who grows half-living people; a science fiction story of the near-future in which the world is as easy to manipulate as the Internet; a crime story in which every wish comes true and only the Imaginary Crimes Unit can stop them; and a comedic love story in which Death describes himself as a charismatic hero. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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I have an iPhone. I check messages on it. Text messages have become an increasingly favored tool. As much as I like my phone, however, I MUCH prefer doing longer messages on my computer with its full sized keyboard. Nayeri may well win the prize for being the very first author to write a published book on a smart phone. The fact that the book was written on a phone may give teachers a way to engage a reader, but if the details of its composition were the only reason to review the book, you would not be reading my review. The book is smart, unique, and a lot of fun to read. That said, this book will not be for everyone. Those who want more immediate connections to folklore will be disappointed. A book written on a phone is obviously a think outside the box kind of book. Nayeri has four very different novellas in this collection, all revolving around themes of the limits of friendship, love and death, how we see our own behavior, and more. In Straw House (Toy Farm) we have a western unlike any western we have ever read before. Toys roam the range in this novella and an Oz-like straw man, Sunny, is pushed to think of ways to protect the farm from the stranger with the jagged fingernails the color of fossils. He also hopes to gain the love of Dot, the farmer’s daughter. In Wood House (Our Lady of Villains) we brave the horrors of Recreation Day in a science fiction thriller featuring a “nano-miracle event.” The epigraph before this story is from the Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig and it speaks of building a very safe house, a fitting quote for a big brother story espousing the benevolent protection of technology. However, even safe houses have problems, even those with the miracle of Nano technology: “No one knows which came first: the man or the virus.” (p. 131). Brick House (Wish Police) cautions us to be careful what we wish for. In this novella Randy Bieman wishes upon a star for the multiple homicide of his family. Next thing we know, we are with detective Mack interrogating Randy Bieman: “Mack slammed the metal table again, hard enough to leave a print. The kid was about to bawl. ‘Don’t play with me. Randy Bieman catches the first star, wants a triple murder. You show up at the door ten minutes later. That dad opens the door, and I say you would have put your fist through his heart. Am I right?’ ‘But I’m not Randy,’ pleaded the boy. ‘I know.’ said Mack, ‘You’re Randy’s wish.’” (pp. 223-224). Blow (Doom with a View) features Death narrating a story about feuding artisan families and claiming it is a love story: “Fair enough. Maybe a love story should have the lovers within a hundred-mile radius of each other at the beginning. But in my experience, it’s not so much the beginning as the ending that matters for most people. And endings are kinda my specialty. I mean, you can start anywhere if you think about it, but you’re gonna end up like everybody else someday, listening to Dora clacking on her typewriter till you name comes up next on her clipboard.” (p. 353). And the ending to this love story is such a delightful, morbid, very human surprise! Purchase this one for that lover of literary fiction who likes avant-garde reading experiences unlike anything he or she has ever read before.