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Free Love and Other Stories

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I always believe that if you want to know an author's true works - then first discover stories written by the author. And this belief has carried me through the road of discovering some really good authors one of them being Ali Smith.

Cutting the hype of "Hotel World", "Free Love and other stories" - i think which was the first book of Ali Smith is a winner all the way. Abstraction is the highlight of the stories presented in this collection and they are all so thought provoking.

"Text for the Day" is one of my favourites - which tells about a woman named Melissa and her undying love for books and the printed word. Then there is "Free Love" - tracing the sexual awakening of a young girl on a trip to Amsterdam. "To the Cinema" - as the title suggests is all about love for the movies juxtaposing the dreariness of living.

This is not the end of it thankfully....there are more gems to chose from - there's "The Unthinkable happens to people everyday" about a famous tv host trying to rediscover life and its simple pleasures then journeying to "The World with Love" - which is rich in its prose.

What I loved about this collection was that the stories are not the usual run-of-the-mill short stories - they are here to stay and say something fascinating. They are worth a read all the time and a thousand times more!!

Ali Smith's short stories, are by far the best ones I've read (and I must say I've read some). Free Love is a book of short stories, each story more charming and lovely than the other. I read it so slow; I just didn't want it to end. Obviously, it's one of those books, that when you finish them, you immidiatly pick it up again and reread it. My second to favorite book, the first being Like by the same talented auther.