YepIt's worth looking in to, they're only short stories that are loosely associated. Some are better than others but it's good reading material.
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:20,
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the concepts are much better than the actull stories, which are a bit hammy
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:21,
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It is often the rather bumbling acount of some over-intelectual foolwho deserves horrific death, true, but there's a certain charm to the clumsy feel to the prose. He holds my interest way better than that over-exposed second rate author Stephen King.
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:23,
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i honestly think the world would've been better servedif he hadn't had his breakdown at an early age, and had gone off to get a conventional university education like he planned.
i still think he would've written stories. only they'd have been better ones
(still, his style does improve a bit in his later, longer stories)
(i still think he would've written stories. only they'd have been better ones
(still, his style does improve a bit in his later, longer stories)
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:29,
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He was an extremely messed up individual, yeah.Shame really, and I absolutely agree, I've got a huge collection of them laid out chronologically and there's a massive quality difference between the early and late stories.
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:32,
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I really like the quote above.I don't completely agree with his conculsions, but I think the general observations are interesting.
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:22,
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*Nods* TotallyThe way he explores dream-like worlds where normal physical rules don't apply and makes them reality is quite an interesting one too, and the social Darwinist edge to it all is... well, it's a very interesting reflection of attitudes at the time if nothing else.
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Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:25,
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