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The Ones That Got Away (2010)

by Stephen Graham Jones(Favorite Author)

4.12 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1607012359 (ISBN13: 9781607012351)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Prime Books

review 1: When I picked up this story collection, I wasn't aware the author wrote horror. I checked it out based on a recommendation that one of the stories was top-ten-short-stories-ever worthy: "Father, Son, Holy Rabbit." After the first two stories I figured out the horror genre, and some were reminiscent of Stephen King stories. However, many of these were gruesome in a just-within-my-tolerance kind of way, and some made no sense at the end ("Meat Tree," anyone?). I read a few aloud to Erik, and we ended up discussing them for days afterwards, which was really enjoyable. The stories "Father, Son, Holy Rabbit" and "Lonegan's Luck" ended up being the most memorable for me, in a disturbing way, and overall this collection was a good addition to my short story reading re... moregime.
review 2: Dull, boring and forgettable. I feel like the only person in the room who doesn't get the joke. I was looking for some intelligent horror stories and I read this book on a recommendation but I found the stories so unemotional I just couldn't get involved in any of them. I tried reading the first four. The characters are so bland in most cases that they don't need names. These stories remind me of the kind of pointless fiction I remember reading in a similarly-lauded collection by Kelly Link years ago. I don't know what the problem is. Maybe I just don't like the writer's flat no-style style or how juvenile they seem or how they're "told" and seem to lack proper scenes that I can visualise or how this kind of phony fiction that pretends to mean something is so prevalent these days. There's nothing to grab hold of in these stories. It feels as if they could have been written by anyone about anything and still nothing would matter. Uugggh! Disappointing. less

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