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Title: The Hotel Eden: Stories by Ron Carlson ISBN: 0-14-027389-1 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hotel Eden is an exceptional read.
Comment: I usually do not read short stories--never found anything to approach the experience of reading someone like Katherine Anne Porter. However, Ron Carlson has produced his own quirky "magic" with some of his stories in The Hotel Eden. Carlson looks at us and then writes stories about our behavior. So what? Most writers can do this OK. The difference for Carlson's stories may lie in his grace of how carefully he looks at us and reads between the lines of our everyday behavior. What we may get from his stories is something more funny or more sad than we ever knew. Good--honest writing with little artifice or fill.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Entertaining! Great job!
Comment: When I first ordered this book and realized it was a book of short stories, I was disappointed ...until I opened up the cover and began to read. I then started a relationship with each character in each story, found them very interesting and wanting to know more about them. Each story hypnotized me. "Oxygen" engulfed me, a totally coming out story so deep it's awesome! "Keith" was interesting, "The Prisoner of Bluestone" also a deep story about family and getting to know each other. "Down the Green River" made me cry and appreciate what I have after being divorced and starting over.
Please, don't hestitate reading this! You won't be disappointed. Great job, Ron Carlson!
Rating: 4
Summary: Keith Is Aces
Comment: If you were to tell me there is a story more perfect than "Keith," I'd say you were wrong.
Twelve solid short stories make up this collection, and although some are superior to others, they're all worth reading. I'll break it down story by story, on scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best.
The Hotel Eden - 3. Saw the ending from the get-go, and the ride isn't all that amazing.
Keith - 5+!
The Prisoner of Bluestone - 4. Solid story.
Zanduce at Second - 4. Strange story, but it works.
The House Goes Up - 3. Didn't do much for me.
What We Wanted to Do - 5. Carlson does George Saunders and it's very good, very funny.
The Chromium Hook - 5. The gradual discovery of interconnection (a sense of community) between the characters is done fabulously. Also very funny.
A Note on the Type - 4. Another strange story that works. Carlson's good at taking extraordinary situations and making them believable.
Nightcap - 5. Maybe I'm just a sucker for baseball.
Dr. Slime - 3. Didn't do much for me. The story is about a baker, but it doesn't feel right. It reads like a writer writing in the voice of a baker; I was never able to completely believe the voice.
Down the Green River - 2. Did little for me.
Oxygen - 5. Probably the best story after Keith. Powerful stuff; the retrospective voice works well.
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Title: Sam the Cat and Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)) by Matthew Klam ISBN: 0375726616 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 29 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: At the Jim Bridger: Stories by Ron Carlson ISBN: 0312307241 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: A Kind of Flying: Selected Stories by Ron Carlson ISBN: 0393324796 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Plan B for the Middle Class: Stories by Ron Carlson ISBN: 0393033708 Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Best American Short Stories 2003 by Walter Mosley, Katrina Kenison ISBN: 0618197338 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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