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Exploration Lite Games

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Build a base, mine, castle, kingdom, empire or whatever you imagine on the infinite 3D environment!...

The Tommyknockers

Stephen King

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Writer Bobbi Anderson becomes obsessed with digging up something she's found buried in the woods...

Dana (24 KP) rated Close Range in Books

Mar 23, 2018

Close Range

Annie Proulx | 2000 | Fiction & Poetry

6.0

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I enjoyed reading this, mainly from a craft perspective. I am not the biggest of fans of the Western stories, but the characters and their actions really came alive from her descriptions and I felt like I learned a lot.

While I didn't enjoy reading all of the stories, there were a few that were very interesting. As I said, the craft in all of the stories was very cool to be able to pick apart. I liked looking at the moods of each story as I read it. Each one had its own set tone that you should look out for when you read them. Even the smallest parts, like drawing out the settings, were all beautifully rendered.

I had never read "Brokeback Mountain" before and I hadn't seen the movie either, but I enjoyed the story when I read it. Even though she paints the two guys as very similar in the beginning of the story, the both end up having such different personalities at the end.

There was also a very short, two page story that was so beautifully vague. It was called "55 Miles to the Gas Pump." I loved how much characterization and care went into this very short story.

All in all, this was a cool collection of her short stories. I will most likely be picking up some of her other stories and giving them a read if not only to learn more from her craft.