There is a whole lot going on in this book. Simultaneously, there is a whole lot of nothing going on. I kind of think that it fits that way. As a collection of short stories there are obviously going to be ones that are better and ones that are worse, this book is no different. Schulz has a great mind for interesting depictions of what would be otherwise mundane events (consider The Night of the Great Season). He also has the surrealist sense of the absurd (consider Birds, my personal favorite).
Overall it was a pretty good book. Some of the parts were really, really funny. Some of the seemed to ramble on a bit and arrive at nowhere. Sometimes that nowhere was worth the journey, Sometimes the rambling wasn't worth the nowhere.
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