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Summary: Every character is fascinatingly complicated
Review: Alexie's intelligent depictions of human nature and the Native American experience have yielded a collection of stories unlike any other. His wit is hilarious, unpredictable, and unpretentious. We laugh at all the wrong times and at all the wrong people. He has spun irony in a new direction. The characters are so well developed you think about them long after you've read the last page.
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Summary: Every story worth the price of the book
Review: I am a new reader of Sherman Alexie's work. Wow, have I been missing out. These stories are powerful, funny and right on true to life. I have read 6 stories so far and will surely hate to finish the 9th one. Alexie's other works have been added to my wish list.
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Summary: An important perspective!
Review: I enjoy this writer! He is so unique and so badly needed in understanding our complex culture. Why? Because we Americans rarely get a glimpse of Native American life as it is lived today. Enter Sherman Alexie. If this guy doesn't fill you in, I don't know who will. A thoroughly sound and damned good writer he is! Sherman Alexie should be required reading in any contemporary American Lit. class. Bless you, Sherman!
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Summary: I'm Glad I Persevered...
Review: I have heard him read from the book and speak about it. He is even funnier in person. This book is very powerful it make you think, laugh, cry and feel pain. Someone wrote that Alexie let them down in this novel. I have to disagree it is on par with his other excellent works. A very good read.
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Summary: Alexie's best
Review: I have read a few of Sherman's books, and this is by far his best. I saw him read a few live, and many of them are powerful enough to make you cry: it's rare to get that from a book. There's so much feeling, and care put into these stories, if you're an Alexie fan this book is definitely what you're looking for.
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Summary: Writer good, stories not good
Review: I have read and enjoyed much of Sherman Alexie's work, but unfortunately the stories in this volume are not up to par. I was constantly wondering while reading them if some of these are very early efforts, (they remind me of college freshman level writing) which were dug up for publication. I expect better from Sherman Alexie.Also, he seems to be rehashing the same themes and ideas that have been used in so much of his other work. One of the stories entitled, What You Pawn I Will Redeem, is a great story. The others really were disappointing in both style and content.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: I recommend this book for several reasons. Not only is it a thoroughly entertaining read, it also makes an important statement about all the things that people in this day and age are going through. I didn't feel as though I was reading about Native Americans from a white person's point of view. I felt like I was reading about fellow human beings who go through some of the same things I do. Reading this book made me feel a range of emotions, and also left me with a different way to look at situations that life may present me with.
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Summary: Great Book.
Review: I thought the stories in this collection were all worth reading, although some were better than others. Other reviewers have said Alexie is getting redundant, well, I don't know about that. I enjoyed his book, Indian Killer, but I haven't read all his other short stories. I loved his perspective on love, success, terrorism, and the women's movement, and found that it was not so different from my own, a woman of similar age who grew up in an Italian-Irish-American household where the only books in the house were mine, and the people were, in my opinion, way too accepting of their "station in life," whatever the hell that is. So I felt like I was reading a book written by a Native American cousin of mine--when some white folks were here killing his ancestors, others were back in Europe starving mine, regardless of being the same color. Now, we all have to deal with the same issues, fear of terrorism, adultery, losing a child, failing our dreams, making it in the dominant culture, being ourselves. Anyway, I recommend this book. It's not perfect, but it shines.
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Summary: Great Book.
Review: I thought the stories in this collection were all worth reading, although some were better than others. Other reviewers have said Alexie is getting redundant, well, I don't know about that. I enjoyed his book, Indian Killer, but I haven't read all his other short stories. I loved his perspective on love, success, terrorism, and the women's movement, and found that it was not so different from my own, a woman of similar age who grew up in an Italian-Irish-American household where the only books in the house were mine, and the people were, in my opinion, way too accepting of their "station in life," whatever the hell that is. So I felt like I was reading a book written by a Native American cousin of mine--when some white folks were here killing his ancestors, others were back in Europe starving mine, regardless of being the same color. Now, we all have to deal with the same issues, fear of terrorism, adultery, losing a child, failing our dreams, making it in the dominant culture, being ourselves. Anyway, I recommend this book. It's not perfect, but it shines.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Sherman Alexie is one of the best writers of our time. This book was touching, vivid, intense -- as always, he delivers. What a great storyteller!
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