Books by Justin Taylor
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review 1: An interesting model for how the modern short story collection should work. Each piece propels you into the next. A lot of the reviews on here seem to believe that they all sound the same and are about similar characters, which I think is rather untrue. If you think that all of t...
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review 1: This was a good book, I think. It was an odd book, and I wish I had read it when I was 18, or even in my early 20s, more when I was in the punk rock, edge phase, rather than in the early middle age lifestyle than I'm in now. But it was nice to read it and remember that I used to ...
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review 1: This is my 500th Goodreads book! And it is a good one. It's got that stripped down quality I like to find in short fiction, that nice low Carvery hum--matter of fact and yet not immune to beauty, a cool little cage of oddities and sadnesses and brutalities and accidents and dis...
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review 1: Taylor's a bit of an MFA celeb (particularly in Brooklyn), but I confess that I've never been overwhelmed by his work. He's a competent writer and capable of flights of words of great beauty, but the story had some pitfalls, for me. At times, the story builds toward confrontation...