The stories in this collection all started with an interesting seed of an idea, and then manage to uniformly be completely and utterly bland.

It's possible that the point of the story was to take the unique, strange, and weird and portray it as being mundane. If that's so, it succeeded wildly, and managed to be one of the most uninteresting collection of stories ever.

They each start with that one interesting idea, and then completely fail to go anyway where it.

I read about three quarters of the book before bailing completely.