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Average rating3.7
'When apple-picking season ended, I got a Job in a packing plant and gravitated towards short stories, which I could read during my break and reflect upon for the remainder of my shift. A good one would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit . . . Once, before leaving on vacation, I copied an entire page from an Alice Munro story and left it in my typewriter, hoping a burglar might come upon it and mistake her words for my own. That an intruder would spend his valuable time reading, that he might be impressed by the description of a crooked face, was something I did not question, as I believed, and still do, that stories can save you'.
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damn i really wanted to like this. i love the concept, but the execution really didn't do it for me. it was very very mediocre. the kind of thing i will probably forget i even read at the end of the year, which doesn't usually happen to me. i don't know why this wasn't more successful but somehow it just felt like it was missing something tying it all together, and bc of that it was just okay and forgettable.