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Title: lame collection
Review: What, actually is, to say it that way, philosophy of a short story. Said with a few words as possible it goes - interesting, appealing in a somwhat strange way, perverse (yes ladies and gentleman, good short story must be perverse in some manner - see Harms for instnace) and perfectly built (one must know his craft). That is just like the good theatre... There is no good one without that knack of talent that shows itself now and there.What we have here are unispired stories, written for who knows what reason, every once in a while author even outwrites himself, which leaves him in an unpleasant situation from which he can only escape by deus ex machina method.How to support something that stands for modern prose when my homelands 18th century collections of short fiction are more interesting than this "book".Amis may be great writer (or so I read in the other reviews around), but his greatness I am not able to comprehend... If this is greatnes, I wonder what disasterous would be...
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