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4.0 out of 5 stars
Saki & the impoliteness of manners!,
By edna@mediaone.net (Boston, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
For those of you who love animals with strong, individual personalities and characters who are seen as either eccentric or plain crazy, depending on their socio/economic heritage, this is the collection of short stories for you. From Sredni Vashtar, "the great ferret", to naughty Nicholas in The Lumber Room, each of the well developed short story texts is a minimalists masterpiece, and in each of the individual short stories the reader is given more than an ample serving of Saki's skill of simultaneous character and plot development that invariably lead to absurdly histerical, yet wildly believable conclusions. The only negative critisism that I would make of this group of short stories is that; although most of the stories are incredibly entertaining and some of them either leave you laughing so hard, or weeping so pathetically, that you are forced to stop reading for a few moments; the formaltion of somewhat stock English characters Saki employs to construct the majority of the stories, combined with the kinds of social and linguistic ambiguities that he exploits to obtain his goals, do become somewhat predictable after a while.
4.0 out of 5 stars
How Do You Look At Life?,
By karleen stanley (Alamosa, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
This was a very good book. The stories were all eye catching and made your mind wonder. At first when I started to read the book, was was a little lost. The stories all have some kind of catch to them, and it takes a little while to figure out what Saki is trying to say. The way he embraces the plots of these stories makes you wonder where he is coming from. Personally, I started to wonder if Saki was trying to tell some of his life within these stories. To me, some of the stories resemble society and how people act towards each other. Saki makes fun of society and that really interested me. I liked how he used metaphores on the stories. These excititng twists made the stories even more enjoyable to read. Some of the stories made fun of the characters or at least one character, but it was not in a very subtle was, he made it kind of a secret. THe unique thing about these stories was the way that Saki put them together. He really made you look deeper into the stories to get the real meaning of them. I would definately suggest this book if you enjoy stories with twists and deep meanings.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Laughing at Society,
By Tracy L. Cox (Alamosa, CO) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sredni Vashtar and Other Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
This is a very good book. I enjoyed the way that Saki uses animals to deface the way he feels about society. In many cases the animals use trickery to fool the people around them. In my opinion this story is a parallel to Saki's life. The animals represent how he felt and what he wanted to do in some instances, but society would not allow it. From a ferret god to a talking cat this book will make you think of how you feel about society and what you could do if society allowed it. The stories are exciting and I would recommend this book to anyone who is frustrated with the way society is.
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