Review: All situation, no real action/characterization
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 27, 2011
Scribner, in these three short stories, spends too much energy thinking up unusual situations and not enough time helping his readers understand the situation or how his characters respond to them.  One of the stories is just a scientist describing the (unlikely) results of an experiment, leaving me to wonder what the author was going for.  Am I supposed to be impressed that he could think of an unusual situation and then reveal it via exposition?  What is the intended response to these stories?