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    <body><![CDATA[This excellent collection was a nice follow-up for me to Stuart Dybek's stories, since they both tell tales of children in Chicago. Meno shares his predecessor's offbeat worldview, but injects more humor (see the one about Greek mythology camp)into the irrational world these authors depict as the yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54125634">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A few of these stories are stellar, most of them are pretty average, and all of them are way too short. There's poor balance between stories and also a weird overuse of themes: nearly ever story has runaway parents, dysfunctional siblings, people who work in factories, sexy redheaded ladies, and lot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74589008">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir</em> (TriQuarterly Books, 2005) is the best that Joe Meno has to offer. His previous novel, <em>Hairstyles of the Damned</em> (Punk Planet Books, 2004), was great. It's been reviewed for this website, and you can peruse the ARCHIVES for proof. Arguably, this collection of shor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17512788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories are mostly good, sometimes not good, and occasionally extraordinary.  Joe Meno is a surprising and sometimes sloppy writer.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Outstanding collection of stories.  A must-read for all writers of literary short fiction.   ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joe Meno changes the places of things. He always destroys. His work is accurate, opaque human reality. In a word: verbal coherence. <br/><br/>His work is entirely scientific. It takes up all the space. Stubborn. Unshakable. Damned theoretical. Operating from an illusion of which we could be proud,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23324306">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The use of medicines is one of my favorite short stories ever. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[after reading the boy detective fails, i got on a bit of a joe meno kick. <br/><br/>i didn't like this collection of short stories as much as the other books i've read. they were really hit or miss for me, though the ones that hit really hit. <br/><br/>in the stories that do hit, his writing seems s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15452513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23223152">
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    <body><![CDATA[Some interesting short stories. Also some that weren't so interesting. I thought some stories were a little self-absorbed and not very accessible to the average reader. Many of the characters in each story had similar hang-ups, thus making distinctions between the stories somewhat difficult. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I give this no stars. I didn't like it. I didn't hate it. It had no resonance for me at all. The stories in this book did nothing for me. They didn't make me think or feel; they just lay on the page.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So good. ]]></body>
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