- Paperback: 479 pages
- Publisher: Vintage Books (Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 140003339X
- ISBN-13: 978-1400033393
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 2.4 x 20.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,205,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A Vintage Contemporaries Original
Includes:
Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"
Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"
Dan Chaon's "The Bees"
Kelly Link's "Catskin"
Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"
Carol Emshwiller's "The General"
Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time"
Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"
Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"
Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn’t Come Out"
Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"
Chris Offutt's "Chuck’s Bucket"
Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"
Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"
Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"
Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"
Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"
Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"
Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"
Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"
Includes:
Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon"
Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter"
Dan Chaon's "The Bees"
Kelly Link's "Catskin"
Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman"
Carol Emshwiller's "The General"
Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time"
Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium"
Stephen King's "The Tale of Gray Dick"
Michael Crichton's "Blood Doesn’t Come Out"
Laurie King's "Weaving the Dark"
Chris Offutt's "Chuck’s Bucket"
Dave Eggers's "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly"
Michael Moorcock's "The Case of the Nazi Canary"
Aimee Bender's "The Case of the Salt and Pepper Shakers"
Harlan Ellison's "Goodbye to All That"
Karen Joy Fowler's "Private Grave 9"
Rick Moody's "The Albertine Notes"
Michael Chabon's "The Martian Agent, a Planetary Romance"
Sherman Alexie's "Ghost Dance"
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Easy Thrills,
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This review is from: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (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.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Celebrating cheesy writing with terrible fiction,
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This review is from: Mcsweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (Vintage Contemporaries Original) (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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales by Dave Eggers, Michael Chabon,
By Janjan (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (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
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