This collection of stories by award-winning author Bruce Holland Rogers is a ticket to Places You've Never Been, from the heart of the Tulgey Wood to the forests of the Highland People. While some of the stories are set in the real world, from Vietnamese jungles to the Seattle stomping grounds of an anarchist monkey-wrench gang, even mundane reality turns out to lie on the border of Elsewhere. By turns funny and poignant, Rogers treats readers to fantasy stories they won't soon forget.
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Fables, Foibles, and a touch of A Child's Garden of Verses!,
By Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (VINE VOICE) (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Thirteen Ways to Water and other stories (Paperback)
Bruce Holland Rogers may be a writer new to the bookstores but his gifts as a short story teller and 'social philosopher' have been gracing the internet and literary journals for some time now. At last we have a 'hold in your lap' collection of his collected short stories and it is a welcome addition to the library of anyone hungry for new talent! Holland's writing style is succinct, free of wandering diversions, focused on the main point of a tale as all good short stories should be, and enjoys a rather wide spectrum of topics. He seems to favor the technique of re-telling fables or stories we may have heard, dozing off to sleep in the sanctity of our childhood memories, placing them in quirky contemporary settings that for the most part are successful. But recasting fables can become wearing, if that is all there is to a book, and Holland recognizes this and serves us stories of such odd diversity as Vietnam flashbacks, Golf, marauders in communication with Chief Seattle, cats as comrades, etc. Holland is at once funny, tender, insightful, and always creative. There is one aspect of this book that may be part of Holland's style but that to this reader is distracting: for some reason he finds it necessary to provide us with a paragraph on a separate opening page before each story as though he needed to explain what is in store. Really good stories (such as these) stand solidly on their own and intros (such as these) can spoil the effect. Perhaps a general introduction at the beginning of the collection would accomplish the same end and would not disrupt the joy of progressing through this thoroughly entertaining group of shorties.
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The best in this collection are really good,
By Genny (Guerneville, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Thirteen Ways to Water and other stories (Paperback)
The title story has one of the most interesting structures I have ever seen, plus, if you liked the movie "The Deer Hunter" you will want to read this story.
Overall, the subject matter and style of each story is so different from the next, the experience of reading the entire book is a bit jarring. Don't do like I did and read the whole thing start to end. Instead, pick it up every few weeks and just read one story. Then put it back down until next time.
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An Eclectic Collection,
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Although the title story is my favorite, the others are good fun too. There are fables, magic, and stories that make one think. An earlier poster mentioned to take your time with this collection, I'd second that opinion. Hang out by the fire on a stormy night, head on the pillow, get lost in these stories.
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