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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 22:39:57 GMT
Mine are "The Day Off" and "The Dream" by Alicia Davis.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2017 0:53:39 GMT
The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind
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Post by DeepArcher on Mar 4, 2017 6:22:06 GMT
I really need to do more short story - reading in general. From what I have read, I'd say Kurt Vonnegut's "Harrison Bergeron" is probably my favorite.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 4, 2017 21:06:29 GMT
Kafka's "The Burrow"
"Gazebo" and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" by Raymond Carver
"The Skull," "The Preserving Machine," "The Infinites," and "The Variable Man" by Philip K. Dick
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Post by Viced on Mar 4, 2017 21:40:13 GMT
"I Start Over" - Donald Ray Pollock
pretty much everything by Raymond Carver
everything in "Rock Springs" by Richard Ford
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Post by spiralstatic on Mar 11, 2017 19:17:16 GMT
Anyone read Nic Pizzolatto's short stories, Between Here and the Yellow Sea? I love Nepal.
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Post by spiralstatic on Mar 11, 2017 19:26:48 GMT
Anyone read Nic Pizzolatto's short stories, Between Here and the Yellow Sea? I love Nepal. Should be adapted. Yes, I'd never thought of it, but I think it would really lend itself to a visual medium! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2017 1:19:58 GMT
"The Body" by Stephen King.
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Post by DeepArcher on Sept 24, 2017 20:47:58 GMT
I've been reading/studying Charlotte Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" for my English class, and it's outstanding. Definitely ranks up there for me.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Sept 24, 2017 21:35:08 GMT
I want going to do a thread about this not long ago, but I forgot. A Rose for Emily is probably my favorite. I find stories like that so fascinating.
Some of my favorites:
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
The Geranium by Flannery O'Connor
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman
all short stories that had a big impact on me when I read them.
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Post by Mattsby on Sept 26, 2017 20:30:16 GMT
Recently obsessed with 'Berenice' by Poe.
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 17, 2018 5:25:52 GMT
I have read very few short stories, so I'm wondering what some great ones are to pick up.
My only favorites I can think of are
The Dressmaker's Doll by Agatha Christie
His Face All Red by Emily Carroll
The Nesting Place by Emily Carroll
And all of those are supernatural horror stories (a genre that fits perfectly into the short format, I must say). What should I get cracking on?
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Post by DeepArcher on Aug 17, 2018 5:34:08 GMT
"Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"Signs and Symbols" by Vladimir Nabokov
"Chicken Hill" by Joy Williams
"The Semplica Girl Diaries" & "Sea Oak" by George Sunders
"--All You Zombies--" by Robert Heinlein
"The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe" by Angela Carter
Unfortunately haven't read too many short stories outside of what I've had to read for classes and such ... which is a shame because I'm a huge fan of the format when done properly, I've just never been able to fit it into my leisure reading.
Regardless, will try to add more favorites as I think of them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 6:48:17 GMT
The Dead - James Joyce
The Soul is Not a Smithy - David Foster Wallace
The Body - Stephen King
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? - Joyce Carol Oates
There's hundreds of short stories I'd like to read that I haven't gotten around to yet, these are just a handful of my current favorites.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 17, 2018 10:32:41 GMT
Short stories are preferable to me now than novels and I've listed on here a lot my favorite short stories are everything by Carver, Poe and one left field short story that I basically recommend to everyone: Orientation by Daniel Orozco.
I often go back and read Nathaniel Hawthorne too and right now I've been thinking a lot about My Kinsman, Major Molineux and our current political climate and how it connects to US history.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 14:59:31 GMT
Roman Fever by Edith Wharton
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2018 15:26:26 GMT
The Body - Stephen King
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Post by Ugolin on Aug 17, 2018 17:17:32 GMT
Super short one I recently enjoyed: Going For A Beer by Robert Coover Berenice, Poe (my all time fave) The Overcoat, Gogol (a precursor to Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, etc.) Moxon’s Master, Bierce The Swimmer, John Cheever The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Woody Allen’s early ones are a hoot ( The Gossage–Vardebedian Papers (especially), Little Louder Please, Mr. Big, The Whore of Mensa, etc.) Two illustrated ones I’m a big fan of : The Unstrung Harp, Edward Gorey (feels like a goofy, unofficial sequel to Sartre’s Nausea) A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas |
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Post by Martin Stett on Aug 17, 2018 17:35:24 GMT
Super short one I recently enjoyed: Going For A Beer by Robert Coover Berenice, Poe (my all time fave) The Overcoat, Gogol (a precursor to Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, etc.) Moxon’s Master, Bierce The Swimmer, John Cheever The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Woody Allen’s early ones are a hoot ( The Gossage–Vardebedian Papers (especially), Little Louder Please, Mr. Big, The Whore of Mensa, etc.) Two illustrated ones I’m a big fan of : The Unstrung Harp, Edward Gorey (feels like a goofy, unofficial sequel to Sartre’s Nausea) A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Dylan Thomas LIIIIIIINKS! |
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Post by clunkybob2 on Aug 20, 2018 13:29:50 GMT
The Soul is Not a Smithy - David Foster Wallace What's that about? The Joyce ref intrigues me. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2018 17:18:30 GMT
The Soul is Not a Smithy - David Foster Wallace What's that about? The Joyce ref intrigues me. Four kids who (sort of) get held hostage by a substitute teacher who loses his mind while in the middle of teaching. The story mostly focuses on one kid who spends most of the event daydreaming. It's pretty fantastic. |
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Post by clunkybob2 on Aug 20, 2018 17:24:46 GMT
What's that about? The Joyce ref intrigues me. Four kids who (sort of) get held hostage by a substitute teacher who loses his mind while in the middle of teaching. The story mostly focuses on one kid who spends most of the event daydreaming. It's pretty fantastic. Sounds cool. I see if can find it |
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 11, 2018 15:51:28 GMT
Many stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Aside from him I don't care much for short stories though.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 12, 2018 13:51:38 GMT
Many stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Aside from him I don't care much for short stories though. Have you read Hawthorne's short stories? I find the best of his short story work not only the equal of Poe's but essential to read with his in tandem. They were from the same era and they illuminate each others work - it's kind of amazing how they sort of dovetail with each other but neither is ripping the other off either. |
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Post by jimmalone on Sept 12, 2018 17:01:12 GMT
Many stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Aside from him I don't care much for short stories though. Have you read Hawthorne's short stories? I find the best of his short story work not only the equal of Poe's but essential to read with his in tandem. They were from the same era and they illuminate each others work - it's kind of amazing how they sort of dovetail with each other but neither is ripping the other off either. No I haven't. Thanks for the hint, maybe I'll check them out once. But I still have sooo many novels to read (for example The Scarlet Letter, if we're talking Hawthorne) |
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