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A million reviews on here persist that this collection of stories is "achingly beautiful" but I am genuinely struggling to get into it. For me, the writing seems clunky and over-the-top. The beginning of "Vision" commences well enough before MacLeod goes into long sentences comparing knife wounds with the way a story impacts him, then doesn't leave it there but carries on into another metaphor about squeezing together the banks of a river. Many of the stories feel much to me like I am just being
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Jul 08, 2009
MinglingThreads
rated it
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Sep 25, 2012
Misha
marked it as to-read
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literary-fiction,
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Aug 17, 2017
John Hanson
marked it as to-read
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my-hardcovers,
my-short-story-collections
