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“I've never met Barry in person, but I feel as if I were right there from the very inception of this lovely bit of writing right up to the birth.
Barry was a regular poster for years on a bbs I moderated. One Sunday he gave us the gift of an essay. The following Sunday, we were given another. After the third Sunday, this became our Sunday custom, like Sunday dinner with a favourite uncle.
Like the best of your uncle's stories, listened to drowsily on a full stomach, these tales are short and packed full of strange people, distant places, and unfamiliar times. Whether grounded in the past or flung off into distant space, they are attention grabbing.
Some of the essays and poems contained in this volume are personal, some are from common experience, some are poignant, and many are fantastic in their scope. All are thought inducing -- whether complete with moral or left up to the reader to sort out what exactly the story meant to him or her.”
Elizabeth T wrote this review Wednesday, July 16 2008.
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