Humorous, surreal stories that have a strange quality which ensures re-readability. ( )

It's probably better to dip into this book rather than to read it in one sitting as I did. I enjoyed the surrealism of the first three stories but the novelty wore thin after that. ( )

I accidentally received this book due to some kind of mix-up which resulted in me receiving The Skeleton’s Holiday instead of the book that I actually had ordered. I was allowed to keep it though and thought it was worth a try to read it.

Honestly, I tried to like this novel but surrealism is just absolutely not my thing. There were a couple of stories that turned out to be kind of okay (like The Debutante and White Rabbits), because the writing was vivid and it felt like I could almost see the events happening right in front of my eyes. Yet, the other stories lacked, in my opinion, a proper structure. For me the writing seemed messy, incomplete and confusing. Furthermore, I often missed a clear theme; I felt that it was hard to grasp what the author actually wanted to convey to the reader.

I really didn’t enjoy reading this book. Naturally this is partly due to me preferring to read other genres, but I think that it is also, to some extent, due to the poor quality of 5 out of the 7 short stories that make up The Skeleton’s Holiday. So unfortunately I feel it appropriate to give this novel a rating of merely 2/5. ( )

A few very short and very surreal stories. Proper surreal, that is, like a Dalí or Magritte painting: the sentences are carefully constructed to zig and zag into pleasantly unconsidered semantics. Sweet! ( )