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Okay, this book could be a tough one, with the lack of chapters and the changes in perspective. It seems like so far the page breaks signal a change in perspective. Hopefully it stays that way, because if it does, I might get the hang of it. I liked the omniscient narration section about the city. Reminded me of McCarthy.

Overall enjoyed The Ultimate Egoist, but the dialogue wasn't very good, and there wasn't much of a plot...but the ending was fun. The dialogue thing is that it just feels weird and unnatural at times. Not sure if it's just that some of it is old-timey language or if the dialogue is just written poorly.

Making my way through "And My Fear is Great", and this story is intriguing to me, but I'm also having a difficult time with some of the dialogue being a little awkward. Particularly the exchange between Don and Joyce the first time they actually meet and talk...and also just how quickly things go from there. I don't know.

I thought The Clinic was okay. Kind of a cool ending.

Okay, "And come from miles around" was pretty boring.

These stories have been a bit hit or miss for me, so it took a while to come back to this book, but I actually really enjoyed A Letter from The Clearys. I liked how it slowly gave clues as to what was going on in the world. The fire on the mountain, the paranoia about leaving tracks, etc. Good little story.