montigneyrules's review against another edition
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#readingchallenge2017 (my book by multiple authors)
Like the novel, I'll break my review into multiple parts:
Part 1: The Emails
The most entertaining aspect of reading this portion stems from the the facts, 1. I've never heard of McSweeney's journals prior to starting this chapter, 2. so...the emails are the first exposure. I was immediately thinking, wtf is this?! But that was entertaining. I was left wondering 'are these serious?', or is it just shock factor to get into the journal. I questioned how this process worked, and it made me go and research the concept of the journal. So the emails were well chosen in my opinion.
Part 2: The Random Short Stories
Completely hit or miss, straight black and white. It's either I really loved a short story and read fast in interest, or it was an immediate miss in which I skimmed and kept glancing to see how long I had left. (my favorite was the squid).
Part 3: The Longer Story (in blue)
Meh.
Part 4: The Twenty-Minute Stories
I was most excited for this portion because the notion sounded fascinating, but the majority of them missed the mark...there IS INDEED a reason authors don't have intense time restraints. I wish I saved twenty-minutes by skipping them
Overall it's a neat concept of a book, but I've read better Anthologies.
Like the novel, I'll break my review into multiple parts:
Part 1: The Emails
The most entertaining aspect of reading this portion stems from the the facts, 1. I've never heard of McSweeney's journals prior to starting this chapter, 2. so...the emails are the first exposure. I was immediately thinking, wtf is this?! But that was entertaining. I was left wondering 'are these serious?', or is it just shock factor to get into the journal. I questioned how this process worked, and it made me go and research the concept of the journal. So the emails were well chosen in my opinion.
Part 2: The Random Short Stories
Completely hit or miss, straight black and white. It's either I really loved a short story and read fast in interest, or it was an immediate miss in which I skimmed and kept glancing to see how long I had left. (my favorite was the squid).
Part 3: The Longer Story (in blue)
Meh.
Part 4: The Twenty-Minute Stories
I was most excited for this portion because the notion sounded fascinating, but the majority of them missed the mark...there IS INDEED a reason authors don't have intense time restraints. I wish I saved twenty-minutes by skipping them
Overall it's a neat concept of a book, but I've read better Anthologies.
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