The Unsettled Dust

Very very very low-key story-telling. I had a hard time finishing more than two stories, losing myself in what seemed to me an endless series of unneccessary details. I get that it's all meant to build up dread or suspense slowly - and in earlier times, with nothing else to read, it might have worked; but I need to be kept more interested on the way these days, especially if I'm not sure that I'm going to be rewarded eventually. Which, in the two stories I actually got through, I really wasn't. Add to that that the prose style, which many readers apparently admire, to me sounds merely unrefined and depressingly conventional.
In short, a classic case of: You could tell the whole story in one paragraph, and it wouldn't make it much worse.