Member Reviews

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “An amazing and disturbing read. Pollock's style is spare and driven. Truly a fabulous book to read if you are a writer yourself. However, if you're looking for a heartwarming story with redeeming characters... walk away now! Be prepared to feel the need to bathe far too often while reading this one.”

  eda wrote this review Monday, September 1 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “This is just the coolest book of stories about some reprehensible human beings. Which we totally care about.
  
  I couldn't write this book. Neither could you. Fortunately for us, Mr. Pollock could and did.
  
  This is a keeper.
  
  J.”

  jzine wrote this review Sunday, July 27 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “Bright writing about dark topics with not a word to spare.”

  Nita wrote this review Monday, June 9 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 4 stars

  “I thought it was a very good book. I liked how some of the stories intertwined with each other. Its basically a book about different peoples everyday lives almost.. and if not every day the days portrayed were sad i thought. Everyone in this book seemed to have a very screwed up life. Even tho that was the big picture in the stories there were still jokes here and there and it was an entertaining read as far as I'm concerned.”

  StealthNice wrote this review Tuesday, May 20 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 5 stars

  “donald ray pollock is a total sweetheart in person, but you wouldn't know it by reading this!! gritty and darkly humorous this book will make you stop and think. i also love the way it is written. it is a series of interlocking vignettes that follows a town and it's families through several generations.”

  Kate wrote this review Thursday, May 15 2008. ( reply | permalink )
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  • Rated 3 stars

  “An important new voice in American fiction. Pollock has a rich vein of inspiration in the desperation of poor, marginalized and clueless have-nots of southern Ohio. A powerful and sad collection.”

  Chuck C wrote this review Saturday, April 12 2008. ( reply | permalink )