A review by emilyclairem
Stories and Texts for Nothing by Samuel Beckett

3.0

So this text pretty much proved what I've begun to suspect about my feelings towards Beckett: I cannot stand his longer works that are filled with just nonsense babbling (which is the point of them and that's fair, but I just cannot read them) and I like his slightly more structured texts with a "plot" (very loosely defined here as some people vaguely doing things, even just talking to each other, rather than just ranting to the void). I liked the stories and I could actually get through reading them and understanding them. The 'texts for nothing' I merely skimmed. I'm sure they're valuable but sometimes you have to draw a line with how much pain you're willing to tolerate.