Hey everyone, I listened to another short story collection and I honestly don't know why
I keep doing that.
After that I'm usually so in the middle
of nowhere. I don't know what to do with
myself, and yeah, hmm, I have mixed
feelings about short story collections
and short stories in general. So I listened
to Uncommon Type: Some Stories by Tom
Hanks, also read by Tom Hanks.
The audiobook was really well done, it was nice to listen to him read the stories,
and if you like Tom Hanks and you like
his voice you will like listening to him
tell you stories. So that was a good
experience. I mainly got the book because
I wanted to not get sucked in a big
story, I only have long audiobooks at
home right now. So I thought with my
attention span and other things on my
mind short stories would be a good thing to do.
Turned out after all it wasn't such a
good idea, or not such a bad idea? I don't
really know. The stories are nice. They're
well narrated,
well done. They're mundane stories with
mundane people having mundane problems in
everyday life situations. I really
enjoyed the first story, where it's about
a relationship with friends and there's
a group of friends that reappear in
other stories as well later on. I
really liked that group of friends and
the stories about them. But other than
that I can't really say I got invested
in any of the stories that much, or in
any of the characters. I don't really
think I paid that much attention to some
of the stories and just used them as a
background noise, which is of course not
fair to the book at all. But that's just
what I mean.
I tend to not really get enough out of
short stories to really enjoy them. So I
don't really know why I keep going back
to them. Overall I think the audiobook
was a nice experience, the stories are
nice. That sounds really bad to say about
a book. Let me know in comments if you
have read Uncommon Type. If you're
interested. If you heard good things, bad
things, or whatever about it. Let's talk
about Some Stories by Tom Hanks.
Thank you for watching.
