Joseph’s Reviews > Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult: The Dybbuk and Thirty Other Classic Stories > Status Update

The least realistic thing in this whole novel is that there's a Jewish mother who doesn't want her son to become a doctor.

People Love Dead Jews.

If the mirror is what heals her, what was the point of the second and third kings? He could have come back and saved her after the first one! Then gone out and searched for the other two, if he wants to be a mensch.

(Okay, yeah, the baby wouldn't have lived that long. But Bovve didn't know that.)

"and silently and with a fieldlike voice, dull and as though unaccustomed to speaking, he began to tell his story, and this is what he told."

Putting aside the repetition and the issue of what the hell is a "fieldlike voice"...how is he using that voice SILENTLY?

"...and the green grass was greening on it, and the sunbeams coming from the sun played and flashed upon the green."

This book has fallen from three stars to two.

Fucking fuck, who wrote this story, Christopher fucking Paolini? GET TO THE POINT!

This isn't a bad story, but the pretentious, drawn-out way that it's written is making it intolerable.

I wonder if C.S. Lewis ever read this story.

"I as fully aware of this." Should be "was."

"Critics don't do anything but attack people for no reason!" says the story that's criticizing everyone and everything.