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Title: Just so so
Review: I picked up this book from an airport bookstore. I am a regular reader of short novels published on New Yorker and seems most stories in this book were published there, according to the introduction. I have to admit that I still could not understand why Ms. Munro is such a big figure in North America's modern literature world. The stories are full of too many pieces of ordinariness and dullness, and make you feel the heaviness of your life. Her stories makes you feel like, "Why do I have to read in words about some DULL things I've seen/experienced in my life?" By the way, I've lived in eastern Canada for 9 years and have very warm feeling towards that region.And her writing is also so plain and REGULAR! (I love Peter Mayle's style, by the way, which makes you appreciate English as a language so much.)Perhaps this has nothing to do with Ms. Munro but my personal reading preferences.
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