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    Selections from My Goat Ate Its Own Legs, Volume Three

    By Alex Burrett

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    "Burrett's imagination is as fertile as that of Jorge Luis Borges's, and he's more readable, and funnier." —The Independent on Sunday (London)

    A debut collection of tales that explores the weird what-ifs of evolution, devotion, and universal disaster

    In a voice so unfailingly chipper it's suspicious, Alex Burrett poses in fiction some disturbing yet certainly possible futures for the human race (and other ambitious, earthbound mammals). Always ready with an impeccable phrase or a sly wink, he shares tales of the most darkly ironic sort, including a field report from a human abattoir, a chronicle of dating Death, and, of course, the tale of the goat that ate its own legs. The thirty-one bizarre, insightful, and morbidly hilarious tales in My Goat Ate Its Own Legs: Tales for Adults will delight anyone who doesn't take life (or death) too seriously.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 30, 2009
    ISBN9780061930157
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    Selections from My Goat Ate Its Own Legs, Volume Three
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    Alex Burrett

    Alex Burrett lives in London, where he works in advertising. This is his first collection of stories.

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      This is one of the worst books I've ever read. It started out okay enough, but once the novelty wore off, you were left with several loooong pages left to read. I often found myself reading my bookmark instead of the pages in front of me because, frankly, it was more interesting. With each story I read, I got the feeling that the author felt that each word he had written was the most genius thought ever written before. It wasn't. It took many months of torture to work my way through this one. Normally, I love weird, off-the-wall stories, but this just did not do it for me. If you want good, quality strange stories, try something more like Etgar Keret or Robert Shearman.