Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Thirteen darkly comic stories, Dangerous Laughter is a mesmerizing journey that stretches the boundaries of the ordinary world.

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2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-03-2009; good ideas, mediocre prose; This book is my first exposure to Millhauser. I might even give him another try, but this book annoyed me.He takes on some intriguing ideas and flogs them to death with redundant "gosh, do I have insight" prose. Well before the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-17-2009; Not Milhauser's Best; Milhauser uses exaggeration as a literary device. This works well in his novels, where it is just one of many elements. However, in these short stories, where it is the primary focus, it often seems a little too precious. There are some...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-06-2009; More than the sum of its parts; Very rarely do I find a short story collection in which I like every story, but this is one such collection. Divided into three sections with four stories each, and adding an introductory tale to make a baker's dozen, this collection...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Dec-28-2008; "I have something to say to you, which can't be said."; Bizarre, profound, and gorgeously written, the thirteen stories in Steven Millhauser's collection will transport the reader to a world that is strikingly similar to our own, but where impossibly strange things are dangerously possible....; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-06-2009; More than the sum of its parts; Very rarely do I find a short story collection in which I like every story, but this is one such collection. Divided into three sections with four stories each, and adding an introductory tale to make a baker's dozen, this collection...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-17-2009; Not Milhauser's Best; Milhauser uses exaggeration as a literary device. This works well in his novels, where it is just one of many elements. However, in these short stories, where it is the primary focus, it often seems a little too precious. There are some...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-03-2009; good ideas, mediocre prose; This book is my first exposure to Millhauser. I might even give him another try, but this book annoyed me.He takes on some intriguing ideas and flogs them to death with redundant "gosh, do I have insight" prose. Well before the...; read full review | report as inappropriate