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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was my first introduction to Israeli writer Keret, and I have to say I was loved his quirky dark view on life. I am not a great short story lover, but these vignettes are so short (often only a page or two) that you find yourself dipping in and out at odd moments.
Higly recommended.
Higly recommended.
Format:Paperback
I really can't fault Keret, all the stories are easy to read, the book is amazingly easy to pick up and put down whenever you like... Definately worth a read.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Poignant, effective, topical, and raw
21 May 2008
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
A great friend of mine loaned me this book saying is changed her. It had an amazing effect on me too. The book is written in very short stories, no more than a page or three at most. Each story is complete, explores an idea, an event, often with an unexpected component, not really a twist, just unexpected. The book is just the essence of stories. It's like a great red wine reduction ... flavorful, deep in color, hints of what could be a much bigger wine, but concentrated to accent your current mood.I think the first two stories: asthma and the marriage story stuck with me the most. The line in the first story goes something like this:
"When an asmatic says "I love you," and when an asthmatic says "I love you madly," there's a difference. The difference of a word. A word's a lot. It could be stop, or inhaler. It could even be ambulance."
"When an asmatic says "I love you," and when an asthmatic says "I love you madly," there's a difference. The difference of a word. A word's a lot. It could be stop, or inhaler. It could even be ambulance."
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Uneven, but mostly good
23 May 2008
Format:Paperback
This collection of short stories is very uneven in quality. The weak ones seem merely flippant, the strong ones remind me of prose poems in the tradition of Baudelaire. My first impression after reading a couple of the stories was mostly negative. Upon finishing the book, I realized the power and beauty of the best ones greatly outweigh the flimsiness of the weak. Definitely worth reading.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
not happy but fun stories
30 Aug 2008
Format:Paperback
Keret's stories are rarely happy, but they're fun. Their fluidity and lack of surface complications, plus the casual bits of surrealism, make them different in the best kind of way: they are different because of a unique simplicity, not because of a fatal dose of complexity and effort. The stories in "The Girl on the Fridge" aren't perfect, yet there are a handful that make the book well worth reading.
I look forward to reading Keret's other books.
I look forward to reading Keret's other books.
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