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I had hopes for this book. The author is an Man Booker prize winner so I expected the stories to be really good. That isn't what I got. I read the first story and it was okay. I read some of the other stories and I got lost as to what I was reading. I tried a few more stories and it went more and more downhill. It felt the stories were disconnected from each other. There wasn't a theme. If there was, it was lost to me. Alice Munro is a good writer. I have objections to her writing style. This bo
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This is the first book by Alice Munrothat I've read -- but it won't be my last. Her short stories, which were set mainly in rural Canada, were varied in setting and plotline. I found them all very engaging. There wasn't a clunker in the bunch.
My favorite was probably the final story, which is also the title of the book. The story, ‘Too Much Happiness’ was a historical fiction piece about Sofia Kovalevsky who was a novelist and mathematician who lived during the last half of the 19th century. Th ...more
My favorite was probably the final story, which is also the title of the book. The story, ‘Too Much Happiness’ was a historical fiction piece about Sofia Kovalevsky who was a novelist and mathematician who lived during the last half of the 19th century. Th ...more
A fantastic collection of short stories. My favorites were Fiction, Wenlock's Edge, and Free Radicals, but many of these stories were truly excellent. Munro manages to look unflinchingly at disturbing topics and give voice to the inner monologue. Many of these stories had endings that did not feel as if they entirely wrapped up the story -- the reader is left to further ponder what comes next. But I loved reading about these characters. I'm going to dive into another collection of Munro stories:
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Dec 01, 2014
Karen Michele Burns
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I now know why Alice Munro is considered a master of the short story! I own a number of her books, but unfortunately had not cracked them open. I can’t wait to read other collections now that I have read Too Much Happiness. I was completely enthralled by the first half of the book. “Dimensions” left me breathless. I found “Fiction” left me terribly sad and “Wenlock Edge” and “Free Radicals” had the feel of full length psychological thrillers packed into the short story form. I also loved “Wood”
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