A review by lola425
Zapuščanje morja by Ben Marcus

3.0

There can be no argument that Marcus is a great writer. His stories are well-crafted. They're just not for everyone. Short story collections always trouble me because invariably there are stories that I like and stories that just don't appeal to me, and this book was no exception. I had to skip the more science-fictiony ones. I get what he's doing, but I don't enjoy it. Also, so many of his narrators were the same type of sad-sack loser-men that I had a hard time summoning any sympathy past Rollingwood, which was one of my favorites of the collection. I also loved Leaving the Sea, not so much for content (sad-sack again) but for watching how Marcus used language and single-sentence structure to set the tone. Unfortunately, I don't read just to admire form, or even funtion, I read for joy and I didn't glean much joy from this collection.