Doesn't live up to the promise of the concept.

This one never quite worked the way it wanted to. The format is a good one, but a huge problem is that none of the characters telling the stories within the story had distinctive voices. They all spoke in the same excessively formal pseudo-Victorian cadence as the prime narrator. The stories varied in quality, but none of them truly popped the way great short stories do, and the one that pulled off a great twist did so in the middle, allowing the narrative to just kind of peter out. An interesting experiment, but I can't recommend this one.

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