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Instruction Manual For Swallowing (2012)

by Adam Marek(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1770410805 (ISBN13: 9781770410800)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

ECW Press

review 1: Adam Marek is a master of the surreal and the absurd. The stories in this collection, his first, are imaginatively plotted and compelling to say the least. If one has to choose favourites these would be The Forty Litre Monkey, Testicular Cancer vs the Behemoth and the eponymous -- Instruction Manual for Swallowing. He has this uncanny talent of slipping unnoticed from the real to the netherworld of dreams, fears and black despair. His politics is hot glowing, his vision about the future eerily attractive. Instruction Manual for Swallowing leaves us uneasy yet asking for more. Five stars.
review 2: Though the stories in Instruction Manual for Swallowing range widely in the stories being told, there is a common feeling they share. In each story, the effort to ... morebe wildly imaginative seems forced and awkward. Marek's voice as a story teller is indifferent at best. He seems to care more about what he can force his characters to do to serve his desire to be a fantastical writer than develop them to respond with authentic emotions to the crazy surreal situations in which they find themselves. It may simply be that I am not a good person to review this kind of writing, though I am certainly drawn to fabulist story telling. But I felt as if there was nowhere to arrive at the end of the tale. less

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