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Ebaa Mohamed ebooprimro640b — A fine collection of essays from the short story author George Saunders. A nice variety between one and two-page thought bubbles (jokes) and 40+ page travelogue features (magazine articles). Saunders travels well and takes good notes, visiting Dubai, the US/Mexico border, and the town in Nepal where a boy has been meditating without food or water for seven months. Each piece is nicely observed and funny. My favorites are the articles about reading and writing. Saunders outs Esther Forbes' "Johnny Tremaine" as the book that made him (in second grade) understand the importance of crafting sentences; his reading of "Slaughterhouse-Five" while in the Sumatran jungle at age 23 reveals important literature that can also be funny and irreverent; Barthelme's "The Gerbil" is like a semester's worth of creative writing lecture boiled down to eight pages; and his introduction to a new edition of "Huckleberry Finn" made me want to go back and read that damn book all over again. Other short pieces (jokes) committed the minor crime of being insubstantial as non-fiction goes. "A Brief Study of the British," "Ask The Optmist!," and "A Survey of the Literature" could have easily been folded in amidst other short stories to good effect; on their own, they vanish in a puff of marshmallow smoke. Time spent with this book was well spent. However, it's never going to be re-read in the way that I re-read Mencken, Hunter Thompson, or Mike Royko for continued sustenance. If anything, it's closest to Vonnegut's non-fiction collections like "Wampeters, Foma, and Grandfalloons." (Conversely, Thompson's fiction won't stand the test of time that "In Persuasion Nation" does, so neener neener billygoat.)

Amr Salem amr_salem90bee — This has three short stories in it. They were all relatively entertaining and the language was clean, so that makes it even more enjoyable.

Elena Bortot elenabortot — Can't put this one down, just finished up and loved it. Never a boring moment, always guessing what's next and never expecting what comes!