The Best American Short Stories

The few stories we read out of this book were rather depressing, if I had the choice agian to read this book I would decline the offer.

Balto (one of the stories) was rather hard to understand. Reading it was easy but when you tried to understand the motive behind the story; that is when everything gets a bit blurry. The little girl who speaks in the trial on her fathers behalf says it was herself who was driving the car when the accident happened. But why would she lie so large when she could have told a smaller lie...or told the truth instead. Some things just dont make sense.

The other three stories, "Toga Party" and the others were equally as drepressing. Toga party was about death and dying, old people think to much on that. Horseman was just to slow to actually enjoy, I couldn't get into the story. The last I cant even remember the name becuase it was so slow and boring.

I could have been enjoying a completely different book about another subject...I might even have read Happiness again just to not read this one.