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Ladies & Gentlemen (2012)

by Adam Ross(Favorite Author)

3.62 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

3492052916 (ISBN13: 9783492052917)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Piper

review 1: I like Adam's narrative. I like the disruptive, unsettling themes prevalent throughout his collection (isolation, de facto infidelity. fatalism, moral ambiguity), which make for guilty neo-noir pleasures. I like the pacing of a majority of the tales, and the plausible realism of the novellas. But I can't shake how every story came across as one being told to a distracted listener, replete with an absolute suspension of your suspension of disbelief. I felt nothing for the characters, and every twist or turn played out in acknowledgment of its predictability. Ross' textbook prose reads almost as emotionlessly as, well, a textbook.
review 2: Short story collections where everyone ends up miserable please me to no end. While a few of the stories were pretty predic... moretable (Futures, especially) I didn't really mind knowing where he was going. In The Basement was the weakest, though, and the book would have been better overall without it. But I can forgive one bad story in a slice of life collection. I don't know if I'd trust Adam Ross to entertain me for a novel, but I'd pick up another collection of stories happily. less

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