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piibald
Posted 2016-07-15 4:30 AM (#14006 - in reply to #13873)
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I finished my first two collections - "Trigger Warning" by Neil Gaiman and "Tales by Moonlight and Rain" by Ueda Akinari - but unfortunately it wasn't the good start I was hoping for. I often feel that I should like Gaiman more than I actually do, but this was sad. There were couple of stories I liked and one I loved, "A Calendar of Tales", but mostly I was just bored. I had planned to reread "American Gods" soon, but now.. I don't know.
The classical Japanese ghost tales by Ueda Akinari weren't bad in themselves, but they also weren't what I was expecting (something along the lines of classical Chinese ghost tales by Pu Songling). Yes, there are ghosts and spirits, but these are not very dreadful or scary stories. Once I got over that, I did enjoy their droll narration of ghost encounters.

Edited by piibald 2016-07-15 4:32 AM

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