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Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives
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Joel's review
bookshelves: 2010, 52-in-2010, library-books, short-stories, add-half-a-star
May 25, 2010
bookshelves: 2010, 52-in-2010, library-books, short-stories, add-half-a-star
Fitfully imaginative, often repetitive meditations on what might happen after we die that frequently get sidetracked into cute commentaries on how we live now. Which isn't unexpected, I suppose. But the most entertaining and thoughtful of these stories truly fulfill the promise of the premise; the others just didn't do much for me. Also, way too many of them involve variations on the idea that we are unknowingly cogs in some vast system, but this might not bug if I hadn't read the book in two sittings.
Maybe these are better spaced out, but I don't read that way. Sorry, book. I'd say around half of the stories did it for me, so I'm going with 2.5 stars.
Maybe these are better spaced out, but I don't read that way. Sorry, book. I'd say around half of the stories did it for me, so I'm going with 2.5 stars.
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Reading Progress
May 25, 2010
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Started Reading
May 25, 2010
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May 25, 2010
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2010
May 25, 2010
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52-in-2010
May 25, 2010
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library-books
May 25, 2010
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short-stories
May 26, 2010
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Finished Reading
July 2, 2010
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add-half-a-star