The Wrong Sort of Stories edition by Stephen Measure Literature Fiction eBooks
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Stories and satires for a world gone mad. When right and wrong have been turned upside down, it's time to tell the wrong sort of stories.
Included stories
The Unneeded Panic Room
The Equality Remedy
Talents, Servants, and Government Busybodies
The Mascot
You Never Had a Brother
The Sky Is Blue
Stare Decisis
The Statue of Liberty Orders a Burger (and gets something completely different)
The Honor Code on Trial
Invest in Oxygen Masks
Melvin the Protester
Killing the Golem
The Planner's Utopia
Dandelion Seeds
Fitting In
The Wrong Sort of Stories edition by Stephen Measure Literature Fiction eBooks
The author has some skill as a writer, and an obvious passion for the messages he wraps his stories around, but he’s guilty of one of the worst sins a fiction writer can commit: subordinating the entertainment of the reader to his polemic mission.Many writers want to promulgate particular ideas with their stories. I’m one such, so I’m not about to condemn that as a desideratum. But entertaining the reader must come first. To make one’s message a story’s entire reason for existing is to misconceive why adult readers, at least, purchase fiction at all.
I’d like to see this writer try again, with a gentler polemic touch, as he does have some skill. Also, the stories in this collection do display a modicum of originality. Given the trend toward “bandwagon fiction” – the tendency of so many writers to “write what’s hot” – that’s something in short supply today.
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The Wrong Sort of Stories edition by Stephen Measure Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Great for Junior High current events reading, civics training, or free enterprise. Outstanding stories that resonate in America 2016. Reality.
I received "The Wrong Sort of Stories" as a gift and found it to be both
interesting and entertaining. I agree with the author that "conformity is overrated."
This point is illustrated very effectively in "Melvin the Protester," when Melvin was
so obsessed with fitting in and impressing the woman of his dreams, that he went
along with a protest that he knew absolutely nothing about.
Another story in this compilation that I particularly enjoyed was "The Honor Code
on Trial." It reminds the reader, in a humorous way, how silly it is for people to go
to such great lengths to be politically correct -- even going so far as to miss the
point they are trying to make entirely.
"Stare Decisis' is another story that uses unusual and even, as described by the
author, "a little bit freaky" illustrations to make the point about how far off-base
judges are becoming in their handling of the Constitution.
I found Stephen Measure to be a gifted writer with a vivid imagination and a talent
for writing about some of the prevalent attitudes present in today's society in a very
entertaining and unique way.
The author has some skill as a writer, and an obvious passion for the messages he wraps his stories around, but he’s guilty of one of the worst sins a fiction writer can commit subordinating the entertainment of the reader to his polemic mission.
Many writers want to promulgate particular ideas with their stories. I’m one such, so I’m not about to condemn that as a desideratum. But entertaining the reader must come first. To make one’s message a story’s entire reason for existing is to misconceive why adult readers, at least, purchase fiction at all.
I’d like to see this writer try again, with a gentler polemic touch, as he does have some skill. Also, the stories in this collection do display a modicum of originality. Given the trend toward “bandwagon fiction” – the tendency of so many writers to “write what’s hot” – that’s something in short supply today.
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