| Title | : | The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms |
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| ISBN | : | 0312422407 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9780312422400 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 |
| Publication | : | First published July 1, 2004 |
The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is the ultimate, and perfect, theme-anthology. It's theme is the reader. Everyday we must live through moments of waiting--to get from one place to the next, from one appointment to another, for something to happen. This ingeniously useful compendium offers reading material to fill those gray moments with beauty, wonder, insight, and emotion. Organized by the time that the reader has available at that moment, the anthology provides a poem for that elevator ride to the lawyer's office; a short story for the thirty-minute commute; a novella for the three-hour plane ride. As ever, The Paris Review provides work from only the best writers of the last three generations.
Among those to
- Mary Robison
- Denis Johnson
- Michael Chabon
- Marilyn Hacker
- Robert Pinsky
- and many more.
The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms Reviews
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This book offers a refreshing take on how fine writing can fit into our lives. Arranged based on the length of time needed to read the piece (ie Elevator to Waiting Room), The Paris Review offers an amazing anthology of America's best contemporary authors and poets. The table of contents reads like a who's who of post-modern worthies: Denis Johnson, Junot Diaz, Alice Munro, Carver, Ballard, Oates, Sharon Olds, A R Ammons, Billy Collins, Rick Moody... and the list goes on. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in writing or said another way anyone who keeps the Paris Review as a bathroom reader.
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Can I give this zero stars? This was the most drab story collection I've read all year...and to think this was not one writer, no! this was many writers coming together to collect the worst story they've ever written, then allowing them to be printed and bound inside a book that will collect dust forever in the darkest corner of my closet.
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Satisfying Quick Reads for Short Attention Spans
This book is the ideal quick read, because it was engineered for that purpose. The anthology is actually organized for the situation and amount of time you have on your hands. Let The Paris Review curate reading material for every moment of waiting in your life. -
There's some real gems in here that linger with the reader. I especially liked the second to last story in the book which haunts me days later. There's some amazing poems that are succinct to the feelings they are conveying.
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I did just spend a lot of time on planes, trains, elevators, and waiting rooms (or airports, at least). So this was great, but I thought some of the pieces dragged a little or left me cold.
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excellent selection of stories
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The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms by The Paris Review (2004)
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Some of the stories were good, some a little weird. Not much into short stories.
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A mixed bag of stories and poems. Some are very good, others are forgettable the moment they are over.
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Another beautiful collection of short stories.
