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I was alarmed to find in a George Saunders story -- of all fucking places -- the gruesome plot point of a man's penis being notched with a knife by a gang of roving street toughs -- which illustrates one of the problems with these stories: Saunders is unclear (o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 04:47:42 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 07:58:21 -0700 2008 Civilwarland in Bad Decline was first published and introduced George Saunders to the literary world. As a guy who is constantly pounding the table about the value of short stories, I look a bit o...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 16 14:59:37 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 16 15:11:16 -0700 2008
"...I think at the very last minute of the world, after we've global-warmed ourselves, and it's 400 degr...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 13:55:03 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 12 19:36:25 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 17:22:25 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 26 21:00:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Mar 26 11:00:23 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 11:00:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri May 22 09:18:58 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 10:19:15 -0700 2009
You are a very sick and twisted individual. You had a feces fascination in “Pastoralia” and a death obsession in “CivilWarLand in Bad Decline.” You write stories about average people, average down-on-their-luck people, and then end up killing them off or putting them in ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 08 12:17:45 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 12:18:39 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 16:43:31 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 16:49:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 13:05:48 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 06 11:23:46 -0800 2009
He writes in first person which is cool, except that I haven't read anything of his that was outside of first person. He frequently uses the idea of ghosts or comi...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Oct 31 17:24:58 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 23:04:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 26 22:09:54 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 23:41:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 15 12:29:02 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 11:41:42 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 12:29:02 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Feb 22 18:16:28 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 18:23:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri May 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 15:00:31 -0700 2009 Fri May 29 23:21:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 13:05:31 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 11:55:59 -0800 2009
Whenever I read a George Saunders story in a collection in which he only appears once, I observ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 18:52:48 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 01 20:59:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 21 13:22:35 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 03 12:55:10 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 30 19:18:12 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 26 08:45:59 -0700 2008 George Saunders to review Civil War Land in Bad Decline when Pastoralia was the book that introduced me to him. But that is the order in which they were read and so that is the order in which I evaluate them. That being said, I suspect I may have been more pleased with this...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 11:11:16 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 08:12:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28747