Entertaining Short Stories

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	• The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories Etgar Keret Toby Press, 2004 - 200 pages average customer review:based on 18 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

really good.

i love etgar keret. and i love this book. everyone should read it. its great. great. great. great. great.

short stories. around 3 - 4 pages in length. great meanings. just gives you a good/strange feeling after reading them. mostly tragedy, but some comedy. even if you've only got 5 minutes to read, you can get through at least one story.

Great Buy

This is a fantastic compilation of short stories with incredible re-read value. Definitely a good buy.

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Funny little stories

Etgar Keret's story "The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God" illustrates John Gall's dictum, "Any problem complicated enough to require cost-benefit analysis is usually too ambiguous to benefit from cost-benefit analysis." It should be required reading for all economists trying to quantify risk and cost.

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Entertaining Short Stories

You can truly appreciate this author's cleverness. One or two short stories before bed is perfect. You will remember every individual short story on its own that how well written these are. It's fun, Imaginative and smart. Truly original and inspiring.

Brilliant

I read this book in its Spanish translation before reading the English one -- they each read a bit differently but Keret's literary brilliance comes through in either: a forceful plunge into humanity's flaws.

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Israel's hippest bestselling young writer today, Etgar Keret is part court jester, part literary crown prince, part national conscience. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God gathers his daring and provocative short stories for the first time in English.Brief, intense, painfully funny, and shockingly honest, Keret's stories are snapshots that illuminate with intelligence and wit the hidden truths of life. As with the best comic authors, hilarity and anguish are the twin pillars of his work. Keret covers a remarkable emotional and narrative terrain-from a father's first lesson to his boy to a standoff between soldiers caught in the Middle East conflict to a slice of life where nothing much happens. Bus Driver includes stories from Keret's bestselling collections in Israel, Pipelines and Missing Kissinger, as well as Keret's major new novella, "Kneller's Happy Campers," a bitingly satirical yet wistful road trip set in the afterlife for suicides.

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