Reviews for A Hammock beneath the mangoes

The average rating for A Hammock beneath the mangoes based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-12-14 00:00:00 Simon Phillips This is a fun read, some of the stories are very strange, but very enticing. My favorite short story "the psychiatrist", is very fun. I love the story, and it is brilliant the way the writer comments on human nature through statements and storyline. I also loved "The Third Bank of the River". It's a very creative story, giving you a little context, but you soon find out that it is written from the perspective of a family living in Egypt in the time of Moses, and how when the plagues hit, they didn't know what to do. It was fun to see from their perspective and to look at them panic, and try to problem solve. It is a very clever piece and I enjoyed it. There are some very well written pieces, 2 to 3 pages, that are just enticing. All of the stories give you an interesting perspective of life. Not life as a whole, but just on certain subjects. I thought it was really fun to read and to truly understand the character and his perspective. It is occasionally very hard to read, but I think it is totally worth it. It was worth it for me to go through the struggle and to try to understand from different points of view. It help me to look at things like in sanity and work, obsession and death, and love and youth.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-07-13 00:00:00 David Bowling This collection of stories from Latin America was first published in 1991, when I first read it. It had been my intention to re-read some day, and when my daughter began a college course in Latin authors, we discovered a few of the same authors between this collection and her syllabus, which gave us some interesting topics of conversation. I was surprised by how much I had forgotten, but it's a great mix of literary styles and of authors I have since enjoyed as they have published more works. Various styles are explored with mysticism, allegory, political commentary, especially socialism, some horror, a "Benjamin Button" style story, quite a bit a levity, and some just super weird. Some of my favorites: The Dog Will Have Its Day; Toad's Mouth; The Corset. No, I didn't care for all of them, but it's a great collection and terrific insight into connections between writers globally. And I gathered more insight by reading the short biographies of each author before their story.