Customer Reviews

The Middle Stories

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Heti's series of short stories were incredibly surreal yet wholly believable.The undercurrent running throughout is the same one you would expirence in a nightmare where nothing blood-and-guts horrible occurs, but you feel a building sense of or horror anyway. It is disquieting, unsettling, sometimes strangely funny, and I was hooked. For some reason parts of the book reminded me of a Dali painting. This is also one of the few books I've seen who's cover is just as innovative as the stories themselves.

the OilCan has to give it up for McSweeney's. This collection will wake you out of your obviously humdrum life. The stories are fantastic and will stay with you long after the reading process is done. O Canada

Stories that reimagine fairy tales, stories that take odd surrealistic turns, and yet these felt slight to me, not fully imagined, but abandoned.

Waste of my reading time, about as exciting as watching grass grow. I'm sure it has some literary value and can provoke a thought or two- but all in all spend your time reading something else if you want to enjoy your reading time- mine is too valuable for drivel like this

My son had to purchase this book for a class at school. He read it and I read part of it, it was horrible. I have never read anything that off the wall in my life. I can't believe that a teacher would require this book for a class unless she is showing the students how not to write. The context in this book was suitable for anyone under the age of 18. I can't believe this book was ever published. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK!