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By Zaz , Mood Minion · 14 posts · 67 views
By Zaz , Mood Minion · 14 posts · 67 views
last updated Dec 13, 2015 11:37AM
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I really enjoyed these stories .. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was probably my least favorite out of them. I thought it just barely touched on his life, and offered very little to the reader aside from a synapsis of a life that was very unbelievable and rarely considered reality. I am fine with an unrealistic story, when there is something to be gained from it, or some type of insight the author is trying to convey. I personally did not get that insight from this story at all. I did howev
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I didn't much like this book. There were many times when I considered just dropping the whole thing. I don't know if it's values dissonance at work, but I felt that none of the stories really went anywhere; a lot of the time the endings seemed asinine. The only remotely readable stories were 'the camel's back' and 'porcelain and pink'; outside of them the stories were a labour to read, as well as a few I had to skim through to avoid simply giving up.
As for the title story: the concept is there b ...more
As for the title story: the concept is there b ...more
Nov 25, 2017
Becky K
marked it as to-read
Feb 13, 2018
°~Amy~°
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