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A review by krablesons
The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
5.0
Flannery Oconnor is amazing.
I was reading this at the same time as other short story collections by Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Asimov, Ted Chiang which had a lot going on and were amazing in their own right.
I bring them up because a lot of stuff was happening in these sci-fi, speculative fiction stories.
Now,compare that to A Stroke of Good Fortune, which was basically just a pregnant lady walking up a flight of stairs.
I was just as interested in the story about this pregnant lady as I was with stories of alternate universes, martians, dystopian societies etc.
I don't have the tools to describe what makes her stories so compelling, her characters just seem so believable and real and flawed.
She is in my top 5 all time authors now.
I was reading this at the same time as other short story collections by Harlan Ellison, Ray Bradbury, Asimov, Ted Chiang which had a lot going on and were amazing in their own right.
I bring them up because a lot of stuff was happening in these sci-fi, speculative fiction stories.
Now,compare that to A Stroke of Good Fortune, which was basically just a pregnant lady walking up a flight of stairs.
I was just as interested in the story about this pregnant lady as I was with stories of alternate universes, martians, dystopian societies etc.
I don't have the tools to describe what makes her stories so compelling, her characters just seem so believable and real and flawed.
She is in my top 5 all time authors now.