Title: Tedious!
Review: The names of the stories in this collection should serve as a warning: here there be pretentiousness.I can recommend the second story, "The Time I Heard the Private Donald J. Rankin String Concerto with One Discordant Violin, by the American Composer John Morton." The others, especially "Manner of Dying," were pretty pointless. The last two stories in this book were written primarily using a word processor's copy/paste function, ergo they are a waste of time.I thought Life of Pi was great and deserving of the hype, so Martel isn't on my black list; However, this early work is less polished and shows only glimpses of his talent.
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