Maybe it got better after the story where the 5 year old is sold into sex slavery and has a hemispherectomy to make her more compliant, but I won’t know…
That’s fair. Maybe even story wise that’s a great story, but I agree I don’t think I want to know. But I’m not looking to call out the stories I don’t find amazing.
It’s fiction. As you described it, it may, horrible as it is, be based on truth. I don’t know and I don’t want to know.
I’m not here to champion all of his work. I just know that he’s written some excellent stories and I choose to believe those stories are fictional.
Sure, but just by mentioning his name he’s probably pissed off. He’s written some AMAZING stories, but he’s grumpy at everything.
He’s also written some deeply fucked up shit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminations_(short_story_collection)
Maybe it got better after the story where the 5 year old is sold into sex slavery and has a hemispherectomy to make her more compliant, but I won’t know…
That’s fair. Maybe even story wise that’s a great story, but I agree I don’t think I want to know. But I’m not looking to call out the stories I don’t find amazing.
It’s fiction. As you described it, it may, horrible as it is, be based on truth. I don’t know and I don’t want to know.
I’m not here to champion all of his work. I just know that he’s written some excellent stories and I choose to believe those stories are fictional.