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The man apologies sincerely, and the lady smiles, graciously says that it is no problem then walks away. A moment later, he stuffs her wallet in his pocket. His next victim is a tourist, based on the camera dangling around his neck and the big map unfolded in front of him. The man in the suit hurries towards the tourist and quickly asks for directions to the nearest coffee shop. I loose sight of them for a moment as the crowds thicken, but then I can see them clearly again. The tourist is standing beside the man in the suit, pointing places on his big map. Only looking down for a few, quick moments, the man in the suit swiftly undoes the clasp on the tourist's watch and tucks it into his pocket.
He then smiles, thanks the tourist and walks away, the tourist none the wiser. It would be the right thing to do to report him to the police, but it is so interesting watching him practice his art. Yet, I also keep finding myself thinking about snippets of Mississippi, which I believe is the shortest of them all at a little less than 8 pages. This is the writing that I crave. I know it is something special when I want to read every single word. This is one that will never leave my shelf because I'll be reading it again and again when I need something to stir me up and make me really feel something and transport me to a place that is all too real, rather than the fantasy world of so many other books.
Sep 16, Ryan Werner rated it it was amazing Shelves: Set mostly in open woodland areas both literal and figurative, The Watch W. These ten stories are certainly about the male perception of the outdoors, but they also deal with an overarching n the debut short story collection from Rick Bass, nature and life are inseparable as they show the lengths to which people will go to not lose themselves.
These ten stories are certainly about the male perception of the outdoors, but they also deal with an overarching fear of growth, relationships, and being something small at the mouth of something big. Nature and Character Bass tends to create his stories around the dominance of beauty and honesty in nature, making the two concepts inseparable. He writes largely about the American Southwest, but his charm is strictly Southern: What these stories manage to do is contain description that is both relevant and plentiful.
Instead of being scant with just enough detail, Bass puts in a surplus of just the right detail. Rather, the characters in The Watch are left wondering and underlining the questions with a smile on their face for some reason they might not even know. Feb 22, Ned rated it it was amazing. Rick Bass has hooked another, I loved it.
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It is modern in its jumpy imperfect thought lines and use of ordinary broken words, like real life, unafraid to be orginal. Perhaps it is because I was 29 when it was published and the stories of recklessness, kookiness and the particular American pathos of the people about my age at the time resonated. On the surface the narrator is a passive observer of the exploits of his friends, but its true male personality is fully revealed in his views, concerns Rick Bass has hooked another, I loved it.
On the surface the narrator is a passive observer of the exploits of his friends, but its true male personality is fully revealed in his views, concerns and private afflictions. There is no artifice here, no experimental MFA-style cleverness, just pure storytelling of the way it is in our infected American culture. The unflinching and poignancy of Raymond Carver is also evinced, with his clean pure words and lines.
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I could relate to all the characters and their senseless muses. I wish I had some talent for putting it out there like Bass, to get my own faded memoir assembled some day. This type of book gives me ideas and hope. I am new to short story collections. I've read a ton of short stories and I've written a few, but I have never sat down to read an entire collection of stories by one author, one story after the other.
So this is new for me. His prose is electric in that sometimes it runs smoothly and beautifully and in the same page will skip synapses with great energy.
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I think, through the first few stories, I had a hard time catching up. Like I mentioned before, I felt like something grand was happening before me but I was missing it: Midway through, the collection gained traction. I could not stop reading the title story and I will be reading it again. Each story seemed completely real and wonderful and honest and heartbreaking.
What I did love, without a doubt, was Bass's ability to form fully realized characters. You never forget that each character is a real person, even the fringe characters, so full of wants and needs and confusion. That's what I loved most. When you read these stories, you remember, this whole world is feeling the pangs of life.
For instance, I am not an animal person, really, but the mule I cannot stop thinking about this damn mule. Very good collection in my amatuer opinion. What's nice is the ease of re-reading. I know I'll go back to read the four stories I mentioned. Feb 13, Chris rated it really liked it. The depth and array of emotions and feeling to Bass's stories is fantastic - and while I'm not generally a fan of short stories, this is really excellent. May 02, Will rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: These stories are beautiful and disturbing, and despite this being Bass' first published collection, the writing is surprisingly poignant.
His succinct use of common speech is refreshing, revealing the stories in a more natural way--one steeped in oral tradition. Even his more experimental forms "Cats and Students, Bubbles and Abysses" for example seem like they are driven by voice. In a way, Bass achieves a sort of mastery of dialogue where speakers and their particular dialects are translate These stories are beautiful and disturbing, and despite this being Bass' first published collection, the writing is surprisingly poignant.
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In a way, Bass achieves a sort of mastery of dialogue where speakers and their particular dialects are translated as well as the meaningful silences, the situations where our words sometime fail us. On a side note, Mr. Bass' story from the Pushcart Prize "Goats" is considerably different in style--more lyrically or descriptively rich, the sentences also far more structurally complex--but remains particularly strong in dialogue. He is well on his way to becoming one of my favorite short story authors of all time. Mar 31, James rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a set of short stories that people seem to love without any reservation.
The stories are beautifully written, almost fairy tale like in their oddness in particular the second story.
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All of them focus on people with an intensity in them that seems as odd as their relationship with nature. As I started reading the book I struggled to yield to the book jaded city dweller that I am, well if you can call Zurich a city, in my family nature is referred to as greenery. There seemed to be a stron This is a set of short stories that people seem to love without any reservation.
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There seemed to be a strong whiff of preciousness to the writing that I struggled to overcome but finally in one of the last stories, a grandfather thinking about how to preserve his grandchildrens joy it all finally started to work at the base emotional level I think the author intended.
A good maybe even great read. Five mother-fucking stars Rick Bass can write circles around most in Raymond Carver's league! May 04, Tara rated it it was amazing. This is the book that started my infatuation with Bass's work.