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5.0 out of 5 stars
Blurb says it all,
By Compulsive Reader (Dover, NH United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Happy endings (Philippine writers series) (Paperback)
Luis Katigbak is an award-winning writer who writes a column in Manila Bulletin called The King of Nothing To Do. His collection of essays, also called The King of Nothing To Do, is his second published book.
His collection of fiction, "Happy Endings," is his first book. The blurb says it all: "Award-winning writer Luis Katigbak's collection of fiction takes a look at our world and refracts it through a lens of wild imagination and humor: A girl receives anonymous postcards from otherworldly places. Two people who share a computer start to wonder if they share anything deeper. A man wakes up with the knowledge that the world is going to end by next Sunday." This is the kind of fiction that grabs your attention immediately and doesn't let go till the end. The writing is deceptively straightforward; yet nothing is as it seems. Here is the beginning of one of the stories, entitled "Birthday": "Standing in the middle of the rain that was coming down in heavy, wet droves, he began to seriously wonder what he was doing here. Any moment now, he thought, it'll come to me; and he knew he was lying to himself. All things considered, he thought, I'm handling this very well. I'm calm. I don't know what I'm going to do, but by God, I'm calm. There must be something wrong with me. A bus flashed by in front of him. Splotches of mud appeared on the front of his pants. He stared at them in amazement. A second ago, these splotches were nonexistent, and now, there they were, brown, dirty, undeniable. He wished he had an umbrella. Umbrellas, he thought, were fascinating things; they could not really be improved on. What was the term? Mature. The technology was mature." I highly recommend this book.
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