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Love In Infant Monkeys (2009)

by Lydia Millet(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1593762526 (ISBN13: 9781593762520)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Soft Skull Press

review 1: I heard the story "Sir Henry" read by John Lithgow on the Selected Shorts podcast and loved it (but then, I think John Lithgow is an amazing actor too, so that may have influenced my enjoyment of the story), so thought I would check the whole book out and see how I liked it. The Noam Chomsky story was my favorite, followed by the Komodo dragon story. I thought the title story was depressing, but there are definitely some keeper short stories in here.
review 2: This collection of short stories has a peculiar mix of celebrities and animals. Some border on charming, such as Sexing the Pheasant (Madonna goes pheasant hunting and has a hilarious inner dialogue, complete with congratulating herself for using proper British slang) and The Lady and the Dragon (a Sha... moreron Stone look-a-like is romanced with a Komodo dragon). Others, particularly the title story, Love in Infant Monkeys are disturbing and leave a bad taste in your mouth. So I guess I didn’t love it, but I didn’t hate it either. I don’t think I found as much humor in it as the author intended. It certainly was an interesting theme to build a collection around. less

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