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by: David. Schickler
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780747270928
Format: Import
ISBN: 0747270929
Label: P/B
Manufacturer: P/B
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: P/B
Sales Rank: 3533597
Studio: P/B
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Ending could have been better
I liked this collection of stories woven into a novel quite alot - the overall tone is terrific - elements of good and evil with a slight mystical bent. The other positive reviews here do a good job of describing the aspects of this book I enjoyed - but what I don't see is any comments about disappointment in the ending. It all wrapped up just a little to neatly - given the subtle relationships between the stories and the mystical and quirky nature of the characters and plot. It would have been ... Read More
Rating:  - padib53@verizon.net
I had a hard time getting started with this one but once I got going It was a " can't put downer". Very original concept and I had absolutely no idea where this was going,but I loved it
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Rating:  - Awful
I managed to read this book front to back, and I did manage to come out alive, but... I wouldn't want to go back. The characters were just a bunch of people possessing only quirky traits but lacking any real personality. for all the reveiwers who said this seemed like a typical male fantasy, well I wouldn't necessarily call it typical, but it mostly dealt with men possessing women and women in turn throwing themselves at the men, and as a guy-crazy female myself, I found absolutely NOTHING appealing ... Read More
Rating: - Highly Recommended!
I came across David Schickler's short story "The Smoker" in an anthology, and loved it so much I had to read everything else he wrote. That story is part of this book, and I found the rest of the lot just as twisty, surprising, funny, and touching as the first I read. I recommend this to anyone who likes quirky, clever prose.
Rating: - Unconvincing Mess
I regret to admit that I bought this book after a creative writing teacher cited the short story "Smokers" in a classroom discussion. I looked it up online and found that the story had caused a sensation when it ran in the New Yorker Debut Fiction issue and the author, David Schickler, was widely heralded as a great new voice in the literary world. I ordered the book immediately.
What a mistake. If that teacher hadn't otherwise been one of the best teachers I've ever had, I would send her ... Read More
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