Title: To be missed
Product review: As the vast majority of the stories that are presented in 'Secret Life' are not associated with Vandermeer's fictional city, Ambergris, I had hoped that my enjoyment of them would have been significantly higher than that I experienced while reading 'City of Saints and Madmen.'Sadly, this was not the case.Don't get me wrong; Vandermeer is a very good writer; however, he often appears to get so caught up in the telling of a story - making sure that the descriptions are unique and that everything ties together - that the story often doesn't actually GO anywhere.I tend to read right before I go to bed, and it's never a good sign for a book when I find myself falling asleep and having to reread the same passages over and over, trying to get some semblance of why I should care.Vandermeer's efforts as an editor seem to far surpass his efforts at his own fiction.
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