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Insects Are Just Like You And Me Except Some Of Them Have Wings (2008)

by Kuzhali Manickavel(Favorite Author)

3.79 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

8190605631 (ISBN13: 9788190605632)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Blaft Publications

review 1: A lot of things have been written about this book. Honestly I didn't bother to read any of them. And I don't think I am going to read any of them now. I picked up the book because me flatmate was reading them and I was intrigued by the cover and the title. The writing is nice. The stories are shit. Quirk is good but twisty knots aren't. If I was a certified psychoanalyst (which I am not) and the stories in this book were entries in a diary, then I can safely assume that all the stories are an exercise to exorcise the demons of pendulumatic daddy issues, failed relationships with friends and disillusionment with ones heroes. The motif of insects are used to portray disintegration of values, colors to portray emotions and words to wrestle with the complex set of emotions one... more finds oneself waking enveloped with 4AM on a muggy Thursday morning. I do hope that the author was able to exorcise her inner demons. I also hope that I don't have to read her diary again. It is painful. Covered with the long lengthy roll of absurd humor and imagery as a balm.
review 2: The morsels of stories here were delicious. I like fiction that gives me the feeling of reaching out, scrabbling for something that's _just_ beyond where the light falls. This definitely fit there, some stories are surreal and some are downright cracked out. This ranks up there with Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" for stories that shift your way of looking about five steps to the right.Like most short story collections I've read, this is an uneven bunch. I know my favourites and I'll go back to read them again and again when that mood strikes. less

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