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Meet Me in the Moon Room: Stories

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Hi. Meet Me in the Moon Room contains many fine stories, a few brilliant stories, a couple of workman-like stories, some fablistic creations, and less than it's fair share of skippable stories. More good than bad; more great than horrible. Vukcevich is quirky, smart, and lives in Oregon but his mind races across the galaxy. If you read this, you read quality.

I give it four stars because there are some clunkers, but you might give it five stars because the clunkers are few and far between.

I wanted to read this book because I so much enjoyed Ray's novel, The Man of Maybe Half-a-dozen Faces. This book is a treasure. There is honestly no predicting where Ray is going to go from moment to moment, but it's all perfectly in character within the context of the story, and the closest I can come to expressing what's going on with Vukcevich's prose is to tell you that it's genuinely original. He'll take you by surprise time and again, but delight you while he's doing it.

Many times when one is reading a book of short stories one begins to predict the endings of stories, or at least the style and tone of stories, three-quarters of the way through the collection. I couldn't begin to get there with this book: it was fresh from start to finish.

So: buy this book if you want something that is fresh, innovative, original, imaginative, intelligent, and diverting. I think that once you read Ray Vukcevich you'll want to read everything you can find by Ray Vukcevich. Give him a try! You won't be sorry!

It made me laugh, It made me cry. It scared me. It was inspiring. As someone said on the cover there is no other planet like planet Ray. I strongly recommend this book for fans of good writing.
I look forward to Mr. Vukcevich's next book.

Ray V.'s stories are original, intelligent, charming, honest, funny and poignant -- all at the same time. He must be multi-tasking :)

A pastiche of naïve allegory in 33 stories where the treatment of self and interaction with others is shown through the optic of folklore (in one story Baba Yaga walks away with her house on chicken leg stilts), draws heavily on1950s sci fi a la R Bradbury and various fabulist intercessions. Individual characters throughout the stories give a sense of being the same aspect of a single narrating consciousness despite the changing phantasmagorical landscapes. Others have said the stories are less an experiment of style and more a cornucopia of imaginative ideas: and this works most of the time. Nano people living inside us, trees sprouting from the top of our heads, a haircut which reveals a city nestled underneath and attached to the scalp: why not? Let the farrago of surprises go on

Meet Me in the Moon Room is a refreshing look at wacky and fabulous. I LOVE this book and wish I could give it more than 5 stars. Lots and lots of stars.

Planet Ray is a unique force on the verge of discovery.

Here's a collection of funny, sweet, original, and wise stories.

Lucky is the reader who stumbles from dark onto a story where a paper bag is the metaphor for a troubled marriage, where a missile silo is a refuge, where a strange disease carries people further away from each other than they could have dreamed.
Ray Vukcevich writes like the love child of Oscar Wilde and Emily Dickenson. Or maybe I mean Thornton Wilder and Emile Zola. It boggles the mind to think about the combinations, only in a good way. Just like the book.