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Weed's ability to infuse a sentence with layers of meaning is like an artist creating a complex two-dimensional image with depth out of layers of paint:
"It must have been even better from his perspective, twenty or thirty feet above the snow, wind whistling around his ears, his shadow tracking across the dimpled slope like the shadow of a soaring bird, or an alter ego, or the final glimpse of a departing soul."
Jan 14, 2026 10:10AM
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"Keepers": 5/5 - refreshing and surprising, this story was arranged perfectly at the end of the collection, giving readers a lot of the strengths of earlier stories, with an important variation. Also, a nice "bookend" (no pun intended) to the titular Fly Fishing.
Jan 17, 2026 04:11PM
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But beneath the frustration was an increasing undertow of worry.
Jan 17, 2026 02:59PM
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"The Foreigner": 3/5 - very atmospheric, very Murakami's Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, great tension and a fair plot resolution, but thematically, kind of a 6th Sense ending.
Jan 17, 2026 02:30PM
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If Haruki Murakami wrote The Sun Also Rises...
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"Diamondback Mountain": 3/5 - a short-lived ski romance.
Jan 17, 2026 01:44PM
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Meditations on lust.
Jan 17, 2026 01:08PM
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"Scrimshaw": 3/5 - a very well-written story, convincing and immersive, but with the texture of memory foam, only given definition by the reader's preconceptions.
Jan 17, 2026 11:57AM
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"Six Feet under the Prairie": 5/5 - a young man in Colorado takes a construction job for the summer that ends up changing his life. Powerful symbolism, powerful thematically, awe-inspiring description.
Jan 17, 2026 08:40AM
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"The Money Pill": 4/5 - maybe it's like, red pill, blue pill, black pill, money pill? I missed something here and it's probably just me. Definitely a powerful story. Authentic and bewildering, something like your first time reading The Sun Also Rises.
Jan 17, 2026 07:31AM
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