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Title: My Goat Ate Its Own Legs
Author: Alex Burrett
Narrator: Alex Burrett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-11-09
Publisher: Audio Rights Solutions
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
A selection of funny, surreal, and grotesque short stories by a new master of the genre, Alex Burrett. Ideal for the daily commute....
©2009 Beautiful Books Ltd; (P)2009 Beautiful Books Ltd
Members Reviews:
Heartfelt and whimsical, these short stories will amuse and ...
Heartfelt and whimsical, these short stories will amuse and surprise you while making you rexamine everything you ever knew. Guaranteed to touch/tickle the soul.
Irreverent yet relevant hyperbole
These thirty-one short shorts (none are more than fifteen pages) are entertaining and surprisingly several contain twists that will catch the reader off guard. None of the entries are clinkers, but a few are extremely profound about the "human" condition like "Dating Death" in which a suicide victim and Death begin seeing one another, Genghis Brown a rat of a species meeting the Prince of Darkness and "Anger Management" due to low levels of aggression. The title story is a stunner as the audience learns why the goat did what it did and its human owner did what he did afterward; but the kid only chomped himself to survive while his parents modestly but swiftly dine on their children as a gourmet delicacy. Irreverent yet relevant as even God has been divorced and Cyrano knows he has been put through a Bennett rinse cycle, fans who relish something different in their shorts (no pun intended as that would be to light for this collection), mostly humorous, but always hyperbolizing society with the uncanny dark stripping of the pompous. This is an odd winner, but best served over several weeks so the reader will be less likely to anticipate the mocking spins on human civilized society.
Harriet Klausner
Provocative and Entertaining with one major distraction
Alex Burrett is a very talented new author. This collection is full of surprises and unique - sometimes perverse - perspectives. There's never time to get bored because you're always about to move on to the next story and a new weird place. It's not always clear what the point of every story is, but Burrett is such a master of the clever description and turn of phrase that I was nearly constantly entertained.
My only complaint is that I've never seen a published book, especially from a major publisher (Harper Collins) that contained so many typos. It's as if nobody proofread it or they accidentally published a draft before it got copy edited. Seriously, it seemed like there was at least one major error (e.g., transposed words or incorrect contraction) every few pages.
In any event, Burrett is clearly a major talent and I look forward to his next collection.