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The Outlaw Album. By Daniel Woodrell (2012)

by Daniel Woodrell(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1444735780 (ISBN13: 9781444735789)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Sceptre

review 1: Unsurprisingly excellent. I am just nutty over Daniel Woodrell--I have had a hard time getting a hold of some of his work, again due I think to my location so I was thrilled when the boyfriend found this for me online. A great deal like Woodrell's other fiction, dealing with poverty and often in a rural setting and very twisted-he's very good at the "knife you know is coming but you are still really scared type twist"--this is especially effective in the short story format. I have to say, I usually enjoy short stories even more than novels, but in this case I do prefer Woodrell's novels. That is being nit-picky though--I just enjoy his work in general.
review 2: I find Woodrell incredibly inspiring, original, and inventive - - - but I didn't really care for... more this book. I think it may be a 'me' thing more than a "Outlaw Album' thing, but I didn't care for this (or any) collection of short stories that I've ever read. They always seem top brief and rushed or too... Too much like a writing exercise? I always feel like the author's playing with a prompt or purposefully spinning some sort of creative dial and changing up the subject or style on a forced whim instead of what really, truly calls to their instincts as a writer. I guess I just prefer my stories to take their time and nearly all of these brief little snippets were over and done with before I could decide whether or not I cared. Too much went by far too quickly, and that may or may not be just a matter of my own shortcomings of a reader. Too each their own, I suppose. less

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