Chris's review
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories
by Charles D'Ambrosio
Chris's review
The Dead Fish Museum: Stories by Charles D'Ambrosio
Chris's review
rating:
Two pages into the title story I was awed and ready to fall in love with this whole collection, and then...it didn't quite happen.
Dark, distantly mystical stories about porn carpenters and floods on the Skagit river that are cryptic as hell and set in places I've lived...what's not to like? But I guess for all their promise these stories were more admirable than affecting -- they gave the feeling of "damn, wouldn't THAT be fun to puzzle over in a sterile academic environment" rather than the feeling of "I have just been hit in the heart with a horsewhip." Cause, y'know, it's that horsewhipped feeling we all hunger for.
Dark, distantly mystical stories about porn carpenters and floods on the Skagit river that are cryptic as hell and set in places I've lived...what's not to like? But I guess for all their promise these stories were more admirable than affecting -- they gave the feeling of "damn, wouldn't THAT be fun to puzzle over in a sterile academic environment" rather than the feeling of "I have just been hit in the heart with a horsewhip." Cause, y'know, it's that horsewhipped feeling we all hunger for.
