He is one of my favorite writers. Great stories
934222
He is one of my favorite writers.  Great stories.  Hard to keep straight what I have read as many of the titles are similar.
2170229
Great book, he has a very strange mind. My favorite writer.  Can't wait to get the next one.  Great one
980954
A great story of adventure in the hands of a great writer
3189473
Yeah, he really is as good as the other reviews say. The substance of each story would be enough to keep anyone turning the pages. Add to that a guy who apparently can't write a bad sentence, and you have one of the most satisfying books I've read in a long time.
379124
A collection of stories and essays by one of my favorite authors.  Most are based on his experiences as a POW in Dresden, and in the time right afterwards.  Several seem like attempts to craft his experiences into a story of some sort, and as the stories are undated, you wonder if these were early attempts to get a handle on it all - which he did in Sluaghterhouse Five.  Or maybe they were later variations on this major and life-altering experience.  Either way, they are very good, but not his best work.  Still, it's good to read anything by this great American writer.
3329909
Pat Conroy does not disappoint in any way.  He is one of my favorite authors & when I am reading I am in his "story".  We will miss him but I am so glad I do have more of his wonderful books to read.
538760
I have always loved this author and the book puts some of his short stories together beautifully.
4501743
I have read and enjoyed all (31 or 32 i think) of Ed's books and reread many of them.  He is a great story teller.  I hope his recent illness does not end his writing.
Check out [...]
3077522
Diana Gabaldon is amazing. Not only is she a gifted writer, she is creative to the core. I can't imagine how she comes up with some of the scenarios she puts her characters in. Because she's a research junkie, I also enjoy learning bits of history, language, and culture from her. This book is a compilation of seven stories, five of which were previously released. I had already read those five. The two new ones were both great. I always love Lord John. He finds himself in some of the craziest situations, that require his wisdom and ingenuity to escape. In "Besieged" he is about to leave Jamaica when he is notified that his mother is in Havana, Cuba, along with his cousin, Olivia, her children, and her husband, Malcolm Stubbs. Havana is about to be "under siege" and Lord John must make his way there to get them all out. Of course, he ends up in the middle of the fray. But in his usual, logical manner, he leads the small band of fighters to victory before helping his family escape. There is a touching moment between John and his mother, and no shortage of sadness either. Of the two new stories, I think I liked "Fugitive Green" best. Simply because I really like Minnie Grey, and this story tells us about she and Hal before they met, how they met, and events after that. It's full of the wit and humor so characteristic of Diana's writing. Of the five older stories, I really enjoyed "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows" and "The Space Between."
3430875
I just really love his writing style.  He made me love reading when I was a teenager, and I'm quite a bit older than that now!  He brings back characters and places into new told stories and you feel like they are your old friends and hangouts.  He can be a funny guy too.  Very witty.
109088
These are great stories by a great author, however, I prefer his full noels rather than short stories. Jeffery Deaver is a great mystery writer.
3897201
Really great short stories.  I believe he has the potential of being an even great writer than his father.
4588094
Have read every book that he has published, never been disappointed. The stories  he tells seem so close to
real life is the reason I enjoy his work. This is one of his better ones in my opinion.
4913765
Yes, excellent storyteller. He keeps you engaged in his storytelling.  Never a dull moment with guy.
1911721
I love his writing. I read his stuff in a day or two every time, and i keep waking up my wife laughing out loud.  One of my all time favorite writers.
3663572
He could write a book a day and I would buy them all.  I love his writing style and the stories and the way the tie in together.
480201
I first read most of these stories about 50 years ago as a child, and at the time he was one of my favorite writers. It was a little sad to realize upon rereading these stories that actually the author was not a very good writer after all. What I liked, and what I still like, are the dogs that he wrote about. Even there, I find that the author is very much the proud papa that thinks little Johnny or Suzi is much more extraordinary than Johnny or Suzi look to everyone else, but when I talk about my dogs, I am sure other people feel the same way about me. If you enjoy stories about improbably wonderful dogs told with much sincerity (and I do still enjoy these stories, even in my more skeptical frame of mind) then these are classics, flaws and all. If you want strictly modern realism, even being a dog lover will not make these stories work for you.

And this man was a well to do elitist, and even more than his unbelievable praises for his dogs, his bigotry about ordinary people is quite jarring. But the dogs are still as heartwarming as ever.