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Title: Safety of Objects by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0-06-056451-2 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.31 (26 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Inspirational!
Comment: It's like the literary equivalent of someone asking you to smell their finger. Now I know I'm not alone in putting doll's heads where they don't belong. Truly cathartic.
Rating: 2
Summary: Creepy
Comment: This is a very well-written, very disturbing collection of short stories. Reading this book felt like finding a partially decomposed bird or squirrel on the fringes of a child's playground. The stories are dark. One of the cover reviews said they were witty; I didn't agree. Homes has tremendous talent. I was just repulsed by her characters.
If you're into exploring the seedy underbelly of suburbia, this is the perfect book for you. If you'd rather be transported to a pleasant place when reading fiction, find something else.
Rating: 1
Summary: Awful Writing, The Worst Book I've Ever Read
Comment: Does A.M. Homes really have an English degree? She should have payed closer attention in class. This is the worst book I have ever read--and I read a lot. Not just the themes,--which are juvenile and desperately wanting (and failing miserably) to be creative and original (nice try!),--but also the writing itself is very, very poor, very amateur. The dialogue is unrealistic. The characters are completely unlikable--every single one of them. Also, the pornographic stories remind me of kids who get purple mohawks and 80 body piercings so that everyone will oooh and ahhh at them and say, "Look at him: he is so controversial!" Well, no one ooohs and ahhhs because we see these kids for what they are: kids, children who want attention by being obnoxious. Please! I love sex in literature, but Homes makes it cheap, silly, and less sexy than a bowl of Cheerios. Read this collection of stories only if you want to be offended and annoyed by Homes' amateurity and immaturity. If not, try Lorrie Moore's "Birds of America" or "Like Life" instead.
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Title: Things You Should Know : A Collection of Stories by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0060520132 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Music for Torching by A. M. Homes ISBN: 068817762X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The End Of Alice by A.M. Homes ISBN: 0684827107 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 18 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Appendix A: An Elaboration on the Novel the End of Alice by A. M. Homes ISBN: 0963109561 Publisher: Artspace Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Jack by A.M. Homes ISBN: 0679732217 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 September, 1990 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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