This book is a collection of folk tales and short stories. They are unique to anything I've ever read in the past.
Out of the 780 pages listed on Amazon, only about 230 are dedicated to what I would call folk tales. The rest are short stories. Once the folk tales ended, I started to slog through the book. I skipped the final 6 stories. I just couldn't do it anymore.
Overall, I liked the strange folk tales. Some of them were so weird, and I loved it. Others seemed to teach the wrong lesson or no lesson at all. If I had stopped when those tales stopped, I would have enjoyed the book a lot more and "finished" it a lot sooner. Of the short stories I read, the only one I can remember being somewhat interested in was The Returning Wave. For me, the book was a bit disappointing as a whole.
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