Reviews for Kick in the Head: Stories

The average rating for Kick in the Head: Stories based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-06-23 00:00:00 Jihyeon Rim Huh. This book was much better I expected. I'm not sure what's up with the punk-lite hipster on the cover, because these stories are about hicks and philanderers and and drunks and guns and motorcycles and children drowning in pools. As with any collection, the stories are uneven, and as I always always always say when I finish a book of short stories, the best ones made me really upset when they ended. The terrific-est by far were "Make Me" (two teachers who used to be together have broken up because they're each in love with one of their students - who also used to be together. Since the students broke up, the girl has gone on hunger strike, and the boy has begun an affair with the lady teacher) and the title story (a young-ish guy is tentatively having an affair with a married diabetic veterinarian who "forgets" to take her insulin and goes out of her head in a very very sexy/dangerous way), each of which could easily easily have been stretched into novels that I would have loved to read. Anyway, nicely done.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-09 00:00:00 Thomas Sage I read this while living in a fifth-wheel on the skirts of town, frequenting a dive-bar along the Utah-Wyoming border, and constantly thinking, "I Hate My Life." Then catching the bit about watching a BYU game in a bar, it all hit. I compare it to Proulx but, it has it's own language. If you are demented, depressed, or an orphan of the american dream, check it out.