Reviews for Present laughter

The average rating for Present laughter based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-06-14 00:00:00 Philippe Gagnon A brilliant collection of short stories, especially dark humor and satire. The only pain was the introduction and the short notes about each story by Bradbury. The notes about each author with tidbits on the background add an interesting facet to reading the story. But the explanation of the story itself killed the humor for me since most of the times it seemed to give away the twist in the short story. So once we learn to ignore that bit, the book turned out to be a delightful collection from the best of the genre. Most definitely a book you should add to your collection!

Review # 2 was written on 2021-02-04 00:00:00 Jeremy Halaska Read so far: *The Kugelmass episode / Allen, Woody -- Interesting things / Amis, Kingsley -- Career move / Amis, Martin --2 *Lives of the poets / Atwood, Margaret -- The longstop / Bainbridge, Beryl --2 To London and Rome / Barthelme, Donald -- *Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote / Borges, Jorge Luis -- The stolen child / Boylan, Clare -- Modern love / Boyle, T. Coraghessan -- American dreams / Carey, Peter --2 *The kitchen child / Carter, Angela -- The champion of the world / Dahl, Roald -- The new baboon / Davies, Andrew -- An outer London childhood / Dunn, Suzannah -- *The Tillotson banquet / Huxley, Aldous -- The royal family / Keillor, Garrison -- *Nobody will laugh / Kundera, Milan -- *My vocation / Lavin, Mary -- Lantern lecture / Mars-Jones, Adam -- The assistant producer / Nabokov, Vladimir -- The waltz / Parker, Dorothy --3 A short history of the English novel / Self, Will -- Uncle Vlad / Sinclair, Clive -- *Gimpel the fool / Singer, Isaac Bashevis -- *A member of the family / Spark, Muriel -- *The Bulgarian poetess / Updike, John -- *Excursion in reality / Waugh, Evelyn -- *The wrong set / Wilson, Angus -- Schoom / Wilson, Jonathan