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Ten Little Indians

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I enjoy this writer! He is so unique and so badly needed in understanding our complex culture. Why? Because we Americans rarely get a glimpse of Native American life as it is lived today. Enter Sherman Alexie. If this guy doesn't fill you in, I don't know who will. A thoroughly sound and damned good writer he is! Sherman Alexie should be required reading in any contemporary American Lit. class. Bless you, Sherman!

I didn't quite enjoy the first couple of stories in this selection and might have just as easily dismissed the rest. I found several other stories very rewarding, including "What You Pawn I Will Redeem," "Do You Know Where I Am?" and "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above."

For me, it wasn't the elements of the story that were specific to the various experiences of the Spokane Indians that held my interest. Rather, it was the universality of certain themes... devotion to family, regret, longing. I wonder, though, if the praise Alexie has received is due to his standing as a Native American author, rather than simply a talented short story writer, regardless of his ethnicity.

I have heard him read from the book and speak about it. He is even funnier in person. This book is very powerful it make you think, laugh, cry and feel pain. Someone wrote that Alexie let them down in this novel. I have to disagree it is on par with his other excellent works. A very good read.

I have read a few of Sherman's books, and this is by far his best. I saw him read a few live, and many of them are powerful enough to make you cry: it's rare to get that from a book. There's so much feeling, and care put into these stories, if you're an Alexie fan this book is definitely what you're looking for.

I am a new reader of Sherman Alexie's work. Wow, have I been missing out. These stories are powerful, funny and right on true to life. I have read 6 stories so far and will surely hate to finish the 9th one. Alexie's other works have been added to my wish list.

Sherman Alexie is one of the best writers of our time. This book was touching, vivid, intense -- as always, he delivers. What a great storyteller!

I recommend this book for several reasons. Not only is it a thoroughly entertaining read, it also makes an important statement about all the things that people in this day and age are going through. I didn't feel as though I was reading about Native Americans from a white person's point of view. I felt like I was reading about fellow human beings who go through some of the same things I do. Reading this book made me feel a range of emotions, and also left me with a different way to look at situations that life may present me with.

When I first picked this one up I was thinking, "Hmm this may tie for my best read this year" ("Me Talk So Pretty" by David Sedaris was the other contender), then I got to "The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above." Brilliant! I can always count on
Sherman for a good laugh, he writes what he knows and he's grounded and "out there" at the same time. With each book/project he gets better and better - I wish I had his kind
of talent! Subtle but genuine - he pets my brain. Mii Gwech
Sherman.

What a wonderful book! I enjoy every single story as well as the next one. The book is an easy read, but complex and sophisicated in view and character. I haven't settled down to read a book for about six months (with the exception of Rushie's East West)and this book was so interesting. Living in Seattle also helped to connect me to the stories. I recommend this book to everyone!

I thought the stories in this collection were all worth reading, although some were better than others. Other reviewers have said Alexie is getting redundant, well, I don't know about that. I enjoyed his book, Indian Killer, but I haven't read all his other short stories. I loved his perspective on love, success, terrorism, and the women's movement, and found that it was not so different from my own, a woman of similar age who grew up in an Italian-Irish-American household where the only books in the house were mine, and the people were, in my opinion, way too accepting of their "station in life," whatever the hell that is. So I felt like I was reading a book written by a Native American cousin of mine--when some white folks were here killing his ancestors, others were back in Europe starving mine, regardless of being the same color. Now, we all have to deal with the same issues, fear of terrorism, adultery, losing a child, failing our dreams, making it in the dominant culture, being ourselves. Anyway, I recommend this book. It's not perfect, but it shines.