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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Hardcover)
If you got this far, you should get the book. I don't think there is anything quite like Millhauser except, of course, for strange machines where you can put a quarter in and find yourself shrunk ala Tom Hanks.
This is a most enjoyable read even when you get weary of the current story only to go on to the next, better one.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
WOW!,
This review is from: Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Hardcover)
I'm not going to synopsize the stories since that has been well done by the other reviews. This book has actually been a thrill for me, someone who is not a fan of short stories, because I have never been exposed to so many great stories with this particular slant. One story that really drew me to it was the man who stopped speaking; I don't know why, but I must have read that 8 times while reading the entire book. One reviewer said that s/he had to read all the stories at one sitting, but I was just the reverse. I loved these so much that I only allowed myself 3 stories and a re-read of the man who stopped talking at each sitting.
After reading the first 2 stories I logged onto Amazon and ordered everything by this author. I suggest you buy this book. I feel certain that you won't be bored.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Left of Center,
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As in all of his work, Steven Millhauser creates worlds that are just to the left of the center of reality. Each story has a haunting quality that is impossible to quantify, and each keeps you wanting to know more about the inhabitants of his world. Some are thinly veiled allegories, some not so obtuse metaphors, but every one of these 13 stories makes the reader think more about his own world and his perception of it.
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