Review: Great fun, unique style, new talent
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 21, 2013
"Problem Cousin and Other Funny Stories" by Alex Goodwin is a selection of short stories with a wonderful and unique style of absurd and Brechtonian style humour. Written by a teenager is bears the imprint of adolescence but also the maturity of a sharp mind with an eye for the absurd and mundane silliness.Often addressing the audience during or at the end of the stories the author plays with his readers, comments on his decisions and thereby includes us into the creative process, which takes us out of the experience and draws us back in. For me this style worked very well since it reminded me not to take the stories and myself not too seriously. We are here to be entertained and entertained we are.The characters are great fun, the situations often hilarious and the writing excellent. I recommend you give this young and upcoming talent a try and see for yourself if the humour works for you. It certainly did for me.