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Doubt
A woman who hates motherhood...A man has sex with a dead body to win a bet...Two brothers have an incestuous relationship...A man recalls the circumstance that led his best friend to take his own life... Doubt is a collection of stories that deal with life, love, lust and loneliness.
136 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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April 11, 2014
have u ever stayed up with no sleep for two days?
or spent your day without any food except strong black coffee and smoke the whole pack?
i got the same after-effect after reading this book.it's so simple yet so enchanting.
i got high.
these short stories are beautiful.
life,love,lust and loneliness.
sometimes being evil can feel so right.Giving up to lust can feel so good.loneliness does brings out the unseen.As a loner,pain feeds my heart.If you want happy ending,you wont like this book.If you loves to judge,you wont like this book too.
Don't let people tell you which way you're going.Heaven or Hell.as long as you are breathing,in between is your place.
running against the moving train is one of the easiest and speedy way to death.naked,of course,everybody was born naked.why not die naked ?
or spent your day without any food except strong black coffee and smoke the whole pack?
i got the same after-effect after reading this book.it's so simple yet so enchanting.
i got high.
these short stories are beautiful.
life,love,lust and loneliness.
sometimes being evil can feel so right.Giving up to lust can feel so good.loneliness does brings out the unseen.As a loner,pain feeds my heart.If you want happy ending,you wont like this book.If you loves to judge,you wont like this book too.
Don't let people tell you which way you're going.Heaven or Hell.as long as you are breathing,in between is your place.
running against the moving train is one of the easiest and speedy way to death.naked,of course,everybody was born naked.why not die naked ?
January 14, 2013
After reading this book, I believe monster lives in everyone's heart, including you and me. It taught me there's no reason behind evil, at all. Featuring 45 short stories, the first 20 are my favourite. The characters somehow are linked to each others. Twisted endings are here and there. Congratulation to the author, you surely have a wild imagination. And if one day I want to kill myself, I will leave a suicide note before running naked towards a moving train.
May 12, 2014
I was very curious how did the author squeezed 45 stories in a book with only 135 pages. I knew it was a compilation of short stories but i did not expect it to be a super short stories. It was ok though there were certain stories with similar issue. I always thought that short stories should be short and straightforward without too complicated storyline and questions at the end of it. And this book really defines how short stories should be.
January 17, 2017
Picked it up in support of a Malaysian author. Read this after I had read his other works "Bitter".
Challenges:
It's repetitive.
Could use help with proof editing -- unless the grammatical errors/typos where meant to be there as part of Manglish/Malaysia English?
It's much of the same themes repeated throughout the various stories.
Same rhythms, same cadences, same patterns throughout most of the stories - so can get a bit stale. Begins and ends with the same line.
Surface level emotional insights into the sociopathy of the characters. Wish it could delve a little deeper.
Belabored themes of incest, murder, senseless killings, sociopathic (mostly) women or mothers, religion, suicide in the same repeated form are presented.
The "moral" (or lack thereof) of the story is explicitly stated.
Possible error in one of the idioms repeated through many stories about the leopard and it's spots? or was that intentional?
Appreciations:
Author daringly ventures into taboo areas of life - particularly relative to what Malaysians are exposed to in literature or public discourse.
Author provides glimpses into Malaysia society without excluding same sex relationships, critique of religion, intergenerational family dysfunction, and darker elements of human psychology, sociopathy and crime.
Author courageously tackles material, that i believe government would censor or possibly even find cause to consider subversive -- so kudos for the fu to those who would curb freedom of speech.
Curiosities:
What inspres this author to eplore these dark themes?
How did he come to obsess over these more dysfunctional elements of life?
Are these narratives he had learned from his years of working as a beat reporter or local journalist?
How does this delving into twisted psychological material tint the authors lens on matters of life in Malaysia?
How did he manage to get this published under the radar of big brother?
Challenges:
It's repetitive.
Could use help with proof editing -- unless the grammatical errors/typos where meant to be there as part of Manglish/Malaysia English?
It's much of the same themes repeated throughout the various stories.
Same rhythms, same cadences, same patterns throughout most of the stories - so can get a bit stale. Begins and ends with the same line.
Surface level emotional insights into the sociopathy of the characters. Wish it could delve a little deeper.
Belabored themes of incest, murder, senseless killings, sociopathic (mostly) women or mothers, religion, suicide in the same repeated form are presented.
The "moral" (or lack thereof) of the story is explicitly stated.
Possible error in one of the idioms repeated through many stories about the leopard and it's spots? or was that intentional?
Appreciations:
Author daringly ventures into taboo areas of life - particularly relative to what Malaysians are exposed to in literature or public discourse.
Author provides glimpses into Malaysia society without excluding same sex relationships, critique of religion, intergenerational family dysfunction, and darker elements of human psychology, sociopathy and crime.
Author courageously tackles material, that i believe government would censor or possibly even find cause to consider subversive -- so kudos for the fu to those who would curb freedom of speech.
Curiosities:
What inspres this author to eplore these dark themes?
How did he come to obsess over these more dysfunctional elements of life?
Are these narratives he had learned from his years of working as a beat reporter or local journalist?
How does this delving into twisted psychological material tint the authors lens on matters of life in Malaysia?
How did he manage to get this published under the radar of big brother?
March 7, 2015
So here's how you commit suicide: You take off all your clothes and run towards a charging train naked. This is what I gathered and summarised from the 45 stories Bissme presented in this collection of stories. My favourite story of them all: A Night of Chaos.
With Bissme, it's all about the story (the contents). If you're looking for poetic beautiful prose or something emotional engaging, Bissme is not the writer you would enjoy reading. But if you're looking for harsh truth and pure storytelling-as-it-is, then Bissme could be your favourite author. I can't quite decide if I like it or not, but it was an easy read so that worked in my favour. Now, time to get Bissme's second book - BITTER.
With Bissme, it's all about the story (the contents). If you're looking for poetic beautiful prose or something emotional engaging, Bissme is not the writer you would enjoy reading. But if you're looking for harsh truth and pure storytelling-as-it-is, then Bissme could be your favourite author. I can't quite decide if I like it or not, but it was an easy read so that worked in my favour. Now, time to get Bissme's second book - BITTER.
June 7, 2017
Sudah diterjamahkan menjadi MUSYKIL. Hasil khayalan wartawan Malaysia yang berpengalaman. Kisah kisah bissme selalunya akan membuatkan kamu terlonggo. Teknik penceritaan hebat dan berani sebegini tidaklah sekotor mana... juga sudah saya senaraikan dalam karya yang harus ada dalam simpanan.
January 22, 2018
Good, but not good as Doubt. The stories is kinda repetitive and you can guess what is coming. There will always be suicide on the train station, nakedly. And also Mahatma Ghandi words about the weak and the leopards spot can not be changed, you will always see these things in the majority of the stories. But with all of that, it is still a nice work
October 4, 2022
The stories are short & sweet. I enjoyed "Jebat" and "Wet".
June 22, 2013
I guess, Bissme S really did well on the book. 45 short stories, and none of it are disappoint me. A short an simple twisted. I never thought the end will be the other way. after read half of the stories, I began to expect the ending and the stories of the rest will be normal. There were too many loneliness and obsessions in the book. I guess human can't be predicted. :)
My favorite story was Ghost. its really sweet and simple story. And I'm kinda confused the ending so I read a story twice.
Kudos for Bissme S! I dont know how to put in the words, I'm looking forward to your next book.
My favorite story was Ghost. its really sweet and simple story. And I'm kinda confused the ending so I read a story twice.
Kudos for Bissme S! I dont know how to put in the words, I'm looking forward to your next book.
February 16, 2017
There is a surprising amount of incest in this thin short story anthology. I didn't like this book. The author gives me the vibe that he purposely explores all kinds of taboo for the shock factor. The stories are too short and after a while, the characters tend to blend together. Also, what's with this repetition of running naked into an oncoming train. Is that an inside joke?
July 2, 2014
It was okay for me. But too many of the characters end up running naked on the railway and got hit by a train to commit suicide which makes me think the writer is obsessed with the idea.
Some of the stories are good though.
Some of the stories are good though.
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