This is my fourth time to read a book written by Nick Joaquin. I liked those first three books more than this. However, I don't hate this book. It still is likable especially for readers who love gothic stories, mystery and historical fiction with a bit of eroticism. It's just that I was expecting a bit more so I guess my rating was primarily due to some unmet expectations. Those expectations were: 1) I was suprised to find out that Nick Joaquin wrote short stories in this genres: gothic, mystery This is my fourth time to read a book written by Nick Joaquin. I liked those first three books more than this.

However, I don't hate this book. It still is likable especially for readers who love gothic stories, mystery and historical fiction with a bit of eroticism. It's just that I was expecting a bit more so I guess my rating was primarily due to some unmet expectations. Those expectations were: 1) I was suprised to find out that Nick Joaquin wrote short stories in this genres: gothic, mystery and with sexual undertones. I mean, my previous books by him were all historical fictions (a play and a family drama) and a history book. I was thrown off a bit when I was reading the first two stories of the 3 included in this book because they were totally different from these books: (3 stars), (3 stars) and (4 stars).

2) I found Nick Joaquin's (1917-2004) writing here a bit lofty to the extent of making his prose quite hard to understand. I particularly noticed this in the way he opened his stories in this collection. The best example for me is the first paragraph in the third story, 'The Order of Melkizedek.' 'Toothbrush in raised hand, to tell Customs it was all his gear, Sid Estiva, lately come down from heaven but now unwinged by the general guilt, slunk past the courts of the baggage inquisitors, was thumbed the way to the airport lobby, stiffened as he shambled by, ran smack into a tall woman in green who thrust her mouth at his face as it to kiss him.'

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I find this sentence too long and I had to read this twice and thrice. I know that Nick Joaquin was a good writer and maybe this was written at that time when there was a notion that if a story or novel was hard to understand, it is a good piece of literature. 3) I thought that this book is entirely different from (to be read). When I was to start reading this book, I compared the tables of contents of the two books and found that the three stories here are also included in the other book. Waste of money (P195). 4) The first story, 'The Mass of St. Sylvestre' was recommended by my friend Jzhunagev as a good story to read on New Year's Eve.

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