Boys, Beasts, and Men

I really love Miller's writing, even when I don't necessarily like the story. It always seems effortless in its descriptions and word choices. It's funny, I saw Miller very recently at Powell's Books, his tour for this collection of short fiction. He read an excerpt from one of the stories and said that he saw a sentence there that he would write better if he were writing it today. What's funny about that is that I thought all the sentences flowed so beautifully, from his early works in the collection to the later. This book is filled with wonderful prose, important themes, and bizarre, genre-bending plots. From a story told from the point of view of an old couch to a world where King Kong was real, it's simply joyful and profound.

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