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Language: en

Published in: 2008

Categorie(s): Short Fiction - Collections

Translator: Anna Etmańska

Source: www.wydawnictwoindigo.pl

Copyright: Please read the legal notice included in this e-book and/or check the copyright status in your country.

25 short, sometimes funny and sometimes mean stories ideal to rediscover the joy of reading a book as shiny and beautiful as a brand new cell phone. A look from a distance at the absurdity of our present day lives: fights with the less and less comprehensible equipment, pursuit of the latest technological news, pitfalls of our modern lifestyle, useless i... (more)

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cjstokyo
cjstokyo
on Mar 01, 2010 at 16:09

This is a fun little book. It reminds me of Stanislaw Lem stories, but set in a place much closer to the modern world of the first decade of the 21st century.

Unfortunately, while the idea behind most of the stories is strong enough, the book really needs a good edit. Sometimes a story's conceit is a bit trite, the writing often doesn't quite live up to the idea, sentences tend to be weak, and grammatical, punctuational and general infelicities abound.

Still, if you're not too irritated by this sort of thing, it's worth reading the first three or four pages just to see if it otherwise appeals to you.


cjstokyo
cjstokyo
on Mar 01, 2010 at 15:51

Unfortunately, the edition as of 2010-03-01 is marred by the fact that during conversion somewhere, non-ASCII characters were turned into question marks, which are embedded in to many of the names. (These are ASCII question marks in the XML files themselves; it's not a reader issue.)



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