You Think That's Bad (Hardcover) 9780307594822

from Laura400

Wonderful short stories, many of which are based on real events. They feature similar protagonists, men suffering from a certain alienation and inability to communicate. It made me feel very sorry for his men, who all seem unsure of their expected roles and behavior. The varying and meticulously ...

from GeoffWyss

My advice would be to skip the first four stories (and especially the first), which simply aren't on par with the rest of the collection. Those four stories (with the possible slight exception of the second, "The Track of the Assassins") aren't much distinguished from the sort of clunky, obvious ...

from Stbalbach

This is Jim Shepard's third collection of factual-based short stories, a form in which he seems to have found and developed a niche. Shepard teaches writing. Instructors say you should write about what you know, as Sheparad has discovered, you can also write about what you have read - perhaps the...