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Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories by David Means

lizsauce's review

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lighthearted mysterious reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

livelyghost's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

Extremely Irish energy

christyellen's review

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.0

Just like most collections of short stories some hit and some missed I found some sort of entertainment in each story. The writing was excellent and for that aspect I'd recommend. 

kathissimo's review

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slow-paced
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

2.75

snp46's review

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.75

august_8's review against another edition

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3.0

I liked the writing style

mollybryann's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

From humphreads. 

Quite circling and dense all around topics of grief and regret. Took me forever to read. It definitely captured the mundane monotony of stream of consciousness real life but I can’t say in an entertaining way. Long passages where I had no idea what I was reading. The dog story however was phenomenal and it felt like I was truly in the mind of another creature. 

"In an average life lived by a relatively average soul, what else remains but singular moments of astonishingly framed light?"

serijay's review against another edition

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4.0

"In an average life lived by a relatively average soul, what else remains but singular moments of astonishingly framed light?"

emilybergonzi's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes

3.75

lextypething's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25