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Steal Me for Your Stories
by
Robb Todd (Goodreads Author)
Steal Me For Your Stories, the debut collection from New York author Robb Todd, pulls the reader in opposite directions, mixing the tender and vulnerable with the raw and sometimes raunchy, a hard and soft clip to the ears. It’s a journey you want to go on, even though you are not sure what to pack, the weather being completely unpredictable.
Todd’s stories, often set again...more
Todd’s stories, often set again...more
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Published
January 31st 2012
by Tiny Hardcore Press
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This is the best book I have ever written. By far.
in my mind i picture robb todd as an anonymous fixture on every new york subway. appearing oblivious, while texting and headphones worn but not on, rarely making eye contact with any other passenger. all the while, deep in his wild writer mind, he is compiling an endless report of happening. seeding out the mundane from the exquisitely mundane. steal me for your stories is robb's translation of the babble coming from the world surrounding him. and he is a master interpreter.
i've been reading rob...more
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A dangerous book. People have been hung for less.
What messes with me most is how it warps distance, between the narrator and other human beings, between you and the "Razor Wire" fence keeping you from the certainly maybe fun things on the other side. Between people and other people. Between you and the writer. But unlike some short story collections that rely on tightening and tightening until everything is so close it explodes, the distance in Steal Me For Your Stories doesn't have a direction...more
What messes with me most is how it warps distance, between the narrator and other human beings, between you and the "Razor Wire" fence keeping you from the certainly maybe fun things on the other side. Between people and other people. Between you and the writer. But unlike some short story collections that rely on tightening and tightening until everything is so close it explodes, the distance in Steal Me For Your Stories doesn't have a direction...more
When diving into this material, you have to first, eliminate all that is factual and relevant about Mr. Todd: social media, past sexual to non-sexual relations, and off-handed rumors that one has no control over; once these facets of communication have been excluded, all that lies before you is a series of short stories that leaves you with a most profound revelation, the fact that YOU REALLY DIDN'T KNOW THIS MOTHER F*#KER HAD TALENT AT ALL. But seriously, all kidding aside, my experience while...more
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Robb Todd is like a Douglas Coupland without the moralizing. His is a life after life after god. Whatever faith Coupland clung to has been stripped away and all we are left with is moment after observed moment strung together with taut highwire. Maybe the faith is now in us, the reader, to traverse those expanses from one thought to another, unaided by such props as balancing poles or unicycles.
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RT describes what seems to me to be the quintessential male experience: sex, drinking, smoking mar...more
Robb Todd is like a Douglas Coupland without the moralizing. His is a life after life after god. Whatever faith Coupland clung to has been stripped away and all we are left with is moment after observed moment strung together with taut highwire. Maybe the faith is now in us, the reader, to traverse those expanses from one thought to another, unaided by such props as balancing poles or unicycles.
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RT describes what seems to me to be the quintessential male experience: sex, drinking, smoking mar...more
Every line in this collection reads like a one-inch punch to the jugular. This might be the gun-to-the-head of book for me.
Peppered among the short stories and flash in this collection are some really nice, strong pieces; the strongest for me being "Our Costume is a Kiss" in which Robb blends jabs at history and modern situations/dialogue--my favourite mash in fiction. Robb is at his best in longer pieces like "Drunk Dynamite Fishing" and "Tonight: Under Scaffolding." Good dialogue pops in and out, as well. And then great little descriptive gems like: "A human being's morning was still in my sink: orange peels and d...more
"Steal Me for Your Stories" is a collection of Todd's short stories, but they aren't just simple short stories which are meant to entertain the readers. They are written in first-person perspective - each of the stories reveals an aspect of the main character's life: sex, parties, drunkenness, relationships etc, and it's not hard to see that they are all from one single character - a young male living in a busy city. You might find the stories a little vulnerable, but they all portrays this craz...more
Robb Todd is by far one of my favorite writers. I've been following him for awhile now and his work wraps up a level of sincerity and humor that is never forced or contrived. This collection is great range of short story gems - can't wait to read more from him!!
Steal Me For Your Stories is full of passion, loneliness, and intoxicated philosophy. It is a series of fucked up small moments that may or may not be true — despite the frequent “Hand to God” insistence — but it doesn’t really matter. They feel true, and that’s good enough.
It is 160 perfect little pages, and I’m so glad that the pages lived up to its excellent title.
(My full review can be found on Word Riot.)
It is 160 perfect little pages, and I’m so glad that the pages lived up to its excellent title.
(My full review can be found on Word Riot.)
Robb is one of the most descriptive writers I have ever read, he paint pictures with words like a modern Picasso. When I first received my copy I thought, "What a little fucking book." For such a little fucking book this contains an immense amount of emotion.
Apr 11, 2012
Danny
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5 of 5 stars
Recommended to Danny by:
http://www.robbtodd.com/stealmeforyourstories
A kickass, brilliant new voice in fiction. This collection is a necessary read.
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I am a writer in New York City. I have lived all over the country, and was lucky enough to live in Hawaii twice. I also lived in Texas twice. And North Carolina twice. Actually, this is my second stop in New York, too, so I guess I just do not do things right the first time.
Say hi: robb (at) robbtodd (dot) com.
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