Review: Grisly fun
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
I've taken in some other works of Eric Beetner's recently, and so I was glad to have his collection of short stories. I do a lot of my reading on the subway, and my ride is typically 20 to 30 minutes, so shorts are accounting for a good deal of my fare these days. It says a lot about the authors I've chosen that they're not all blurring together. A lot of Beetner's are especially inventive and memorable, and none of them is less than good.I once owned a book called "What a Way to Go" -- a compendium of bizarre deaths that actually took place in real life. Many of them were ironic and/or grimly comical. Beetner offers a fictional counterpart here...he has an awful lot of fun coming up with ways to knock characters off.