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Compendium of Coffee Table Short Ironic Metaphorical Stories Kindle Edition

by Eric Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
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If you are looking for short stories that have ironic, metaphorical twists then you have the correct book. If you are looking for a drawn out melodrama that is tedious and written for tweens; this might not do it. The stories encased in this tome consist of everything from feudal Japan to a submarine that is ready to cavitate to zombies and the like. The stories are made to be short so if you need to boil an egg or use the throne then you will delight in the short stories here in.
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    156 pages
  2. Language
    English
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    On Kindle Scribe
  4. Publication date
    July 31, 2012
  5. File size
    222 KB
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    Enabled
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About the Author

The author was born on the planet Earth in the year 1974. In a little town called Pawtucket, RI and lived in many Rhode Island towns. He currenlty resides in Nashville, TN with his loving wife and children....and two dogs. A graduate of Murray State University with a BA in Criminal Justice and a minor in Sociology; which in no way assisted him in writing this book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008T6UBSS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ EJTS Publishing (July 31, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 31, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 222 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 156 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

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crystal mcbride
5.0 out of 5 stars COCTSIMS
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012
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The book is a fantastic read....love the story stories they keep my attention throughout and on to end! For anyone that has short periods where they are able to enjoy reading this book is great! LOVE IT!
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Eric Selby
1.0 out of 5 stars This Should Never Have Been Published
Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2015
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Oh dear, this is the lesson to be learned: if you are going to self-publish (this is without an attributions as to where), then you owe yourself a good editor. Not only is this staturated with cliches, i.e., "so tired I can't even think straight" (to cite only one of dozens and dozens), but the stories are all contrived. Then there are the line-editing issues. For example, the first page of the second story has many commas missing, quotation marks in the wrong places, misspellings, capitalization errors. The dialogue is boring.
I teach a class of senior citizens who would like to try their hand at writing short stories. So when I found this book at Amazon, I was hopeful that indeed the stories would be ironic. I guess they are. But Eric J. Smith himself needs to take a lot of fiction-writing courses if he really intends to be the next O. Henry.
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Dr. John T. Webb
5.0 out of 5 stars Steven King meets Ambrose Bierce!
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2014
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These stories are indeed ironic, and truly do remind the reader alternately of Steven King or of Ambrose Bierce, and sometimes of both authors. Truly entertaining!
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