Rate this book

Tunneling To The Center Of The Earth: Stories (2009)

by Kevin Wilson(Favorite Author)

4.07 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0061579025 (ISBN13: 9780061579028)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: All his stories can be summed up in a sentence. His characters are always made to be lacking in some obvious, uncomplicated way - whether it's a baby with monstrous teeth, girl with no social connections, college grads who'd rather dig holes in the ground than think about their careers. This is a simple book full of very simple, short stories. The emotional wins at the end of every story, as a result, feel similarly simple. Rather than writing a character who is fully human, the author pokes some big holes in them, making their losses the most immediate and defining thing about them. He knows how to write stories, they are strange and heartfelt and finish often in a way that feels complete and satisfying. But these are not great, big, painful emotional stories. Effectively... more written, but real empathy was missing.
review 2: Though I generally thought the author had some interesting and fun ideas, I felt like the stories have no relatable purpose or message and generally just felt pretentious. The stories try too hard to be profound when they are really just painfully self-aware. Whenever I found myself starting to enjoy a story, it would end in a completely meaningless fashion that was geared entirely towards impressing someone with quirk and shrewdness. To me it feels like the author tried so hard to be poetic and reflective that all real emotion and "genuinity" is lost. less

Download links for: Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories

Advertising