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I am going to DNF this for now. These stories are excellently written. However, their excellence is at least partly as a result of a technique that I both generally don’t like and am especially not in the mood for these days: disorientation. Barron is a master at disorienting prose that becomes clearer on a second read but somehow remains disorienting. It’s quite well done. It’s just not well suited to my now.

I skipped the Forward and Chapter One and, now that I have finished the rest of this book, I have very little appetite to read the dissertation-style review of literature therein.

Otherwise it is an interesting (if incredibly dense) book.