- Hardcover: 512 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (2 Oct 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241142318
- ISBN-13: 978-0241142318
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,041,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Set up five years ago, this was a literary magazine and here is the tenth issue. It is now well established in America and this issue includes new work from Aron Chabon, Eggers, Stephen King, Nick Hornby, Elmore Leonard and others. I particularly enjoyed Nick Hornby's tale of the end of the world as seen first on a video recorder. It is chilling and vastly readable. Also, the Elmore Leonard story of fearless young Carlos, who shoots a bank-robbing killer who has eaten his ice-cream cone, is a humdinger. This volume makes first class bedside reading.
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In September 1998, Dave Eggers set up a new literary magazine. Five years later, that magazine has firmly established itself on America's literary map as the platform for brilliant new writing. With McSWEENEY'S MAMMOTH TREASURY OF THRILLING TALES, the tenth issue, Hamish Hamilton joins forces with Dave Eggers and his team and becomes the magazine's UK publisher. Guest-edited by Michael Chabon this issue includes brand-new work from Chabon, Eggers, Rick Moody, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, Elmore Leonard, Nick Hornby and more..
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Format:Hardcover
This book is worth a read just for the crazy adverts of the time that go with it. You can 'train vicious dogs' or 'purchase the miracle wall cleaner'. The stories, written by such diverse writers as Nick Hornby and Stephen King among the many, are printed in two column style which I find very relaxing on the eye. The stories are varied and as it says on the tin (or the cover) thrilling.
Format:Paperback
Like the cover and the way the stories are presented, the title "Thrilling Tales" is an ironic smirk at the content. Big name writers try to write genre pulp fiction from the '30s and '40s and the results are dire.
Jim Shepard opens with a story called "Tedford and the Megalodon", a snoozer about a guy who goes looking for a prehistoric fish (I think anyway, I was so bored I drifted in and out) and ultimately finds it only to have it swim away. Yup, that's the opening salvo that's supposed to have you clutching the book feverishly. I put the book down for several days out of boredom.
Going for a more well known writer I picked up with Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick", a story set in his Dark Tower world. It's literally a story about a metal plate.
A week later, I picked another famous writer, Michael Crichton, and his story "Blood Doesn't Come Out" a story about a private detective who shoots his mother. Amazingly, this story wasn't hard boiled like the genre it sets out to represent and was utterly dreary.
I stopped at that point realising there were 400 pages left! 400 pages of potentially more soul crushing tedium. Michael Chabon and Rick Moody both supply 70 page stories and having read both writers' previous work I knew I wouldn't like them. The rest, including the other big name - Glen David Gold, Elmore Leonard, Harlan Ellison, Dave Eggers - didn't fill me with confidence given the output so far.
I'd read Neil Gaiman and Nick Hornby's contributions before and liked Hornby's so I felt like I'd read a good enough chunk of the book to get the gist of it. It was ironically thrilling in that it wasn't at all.
Nice one Chabon for editing the weakest issue of McSweeney's ever. Avoid.
Jim Shepard opens with a story called "Tedford and the Megalodon", a snoozer about a guy who goes looking for a prehistoric fish (I think anyway, I was so bored I drifted in and out) and ultimately finds it only to have it swim away. Yup, that's the opening salvo that's supposed to have you clutching the book feverishly. I put the book down for several days out of boredom.
Going for a more well known writer I picked up with Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick", a story set in his Dark Tower world. It's literally a story about a metal plate.
A week later, I picked another famous writer, Michael Crichton, and his story "Blood Doesn't Come Out" a story about a private detective who shoots his mother. Amazingly, this story wasn't hard boiled like the genre it sets out to represent and was utterly dreary.
I stopped at that point realising there were 400 pages left! 400 pages of potentially more soul crushing tedium. Michael Chabon and Rick Moody both supply 70 page stories and having read both writers' previous work I knew I wouldn't like them. The rest, including the other big name - Glen David Gold, Elmore Leonard, Harlan Ellison, Dave Eggers - didn't fill me with confidence given the output so far.
I'd read Neil Gaiman and Nick Hornby's contributions before and liked Hornby's so I felt like I'd read a good enough chunk of the book to get the gist of it. It was ironically thrilling in that it wasn't at all.
Nice one Chabon for editing the weakest issue of McSweeney's ever. Avoid.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a smashing book and I bought it to get my 9 year old son reading. It did the trick. It is the combination of it being made up of short stories and the great pictures.
I would definetly recommend it
I would definetly recommend it
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