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Post by hoshi on Feb 21, 2007 6:34:54 GMT -5
My first own thread! Every time I'm not in the mood for a whole novel or if I only want some short easy read for times I have to wait (e.g. for the bus, in between classes), I like to read short stories. So I just wanted to know if you do that, too? Do you have a favourite short story or probably a whole collection of good short stories? If so, share the titles and authors here, I bet we're all always interested in getting to know some new reading material! At the moment, my favourite short story is "On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning" by Haruki Murakami. You can read it online here: www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/murakami-perfect.htmlor here: www.dequinix.com/a/perfect.phpPost away!
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Post by Dominique on Feb 21, 2007 6:43:28 GMT -5
I love short stories I think they're so great because you can read them so easily if your travelling without getting too distracted. Also you can read them despite the other book your reading without getting confused, and that you don't have to read the whole book in one sitting you can read one short story and then go on to a novel. I have a lot of short story collections, and, true to my usual form my favourites are usually by Margaret Atwood ("The Tent", "Bluebeard's Egg", "Good Bones", "Dancing Girls") and Truman Capote ("Music for Chamelions", "The Grass Harp and other stories"). I also absolutely loved Sylvia Plath's short stories in "Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams". At the moment I'm halfway through dancing girls and have collections by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Tom Wolfe and another Capote one waiting to be read.
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Feb 21, 2007 7:42:10 GMT -5
I like short stories so much. I have collections by fitzgerald, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Annie Proulx, etc.
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Post by Isa on Feb 21, 2007 8:40:44 GMT -5
I used to read a lot of short stories, but not so much anymore, I'm not sure why... I think Edgar Allan Poe will always remain my favorite short story writer, he's really perfected the art. I also have two great short story anthologies at home - I think anthologies are great because you get to read the best of the best! That's how I discovered Shirley Jackson (The Lottery), Kafka (The Metamorphosis), Flannery O'Connor (A good man is hard to find), D.H. Lawrence (The Rocking-Horse Winner), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Young Goodman Brown), and so many others!
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Post by Michelle on Feb 21, 2007 8:50:09 GMT -5
I was never into short stories, but last year at school a few of my fellow students started a short story club. They wanted a book club, but figured that we didn't have time for entire novels. I read some really interesting stories. My two favorites were: An Ex-Mas Feast by Uwem Akpan (who is getting his MFA at the University of Michigan ) which you can get from the New Yorker website and Devotion by Adam Haslett which was in the Yale Review. Although the short story club made for interesting interview material, it unfortunately did not survive the founding members graduation. I also love my Hemingway short story collection and I have an anthology - it is where I first read Dorothy Parker .
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Post by Nathalie on Feb 21, 2007 15:41:01 GMT -5
did anyone ever read roald dahls short stories? I have the collection at home, but only had the chance to read 3 of them, but they were pretty good. other than that the only short stories I read were the ones we read in school, and I forgot all about them.
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Feb 21, 2007 20:23:27 GMT -5
I love Roald Dahl's short stories. He is so awesome.
Here are some other short story authors I love: F. Scott Fitzgerald Marian Keyes Truman Capote Kurt Vonnegut
I also like to read short stories in the New Yorker magazine - as well as McSweeny's and the Believer.
I love fiction anthologies. My favorites are the Paris Review anthologies, McSweeny's anthologies, and one I have called "Writing New York."
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Post by Bina on Feb 22, 2007 9:19:12 GMT -5
There are so many great short stories. Roald Dahl is so cool. Kiss Kiss is great, it´s so macabre
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Post by czarval on Feb 22, 2007 12:18:07 GMT -5
I'm only just starting to get into short stories. I do agree about Edgar Allen Poe, his short stories are fantastic.
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Post by Paige on Feb 22, 2007 14:14:42 GMT -5
i have to agree with Jefie and czarval, edgar allan poe is amazing! i just bought a book of his short stories last weekend so i'm excited to read some of his works that i never read in high school. i also really like hemingway
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Post by Bina on Feb 23, 2007 9:02:28 GMT -5
He´s so great. I love the tell-tale heart which I guess is very typical but it´s so amazing. I can´t make up my mind about Hemingway.
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Post by Hanna on Feb 23, 2007 10:42:35 GMT -5
I'm having a school assignment on short stories now actually. I have to compare and contrast The Dead (James Joyce) and The Voyage (Katherine Mansfield). Both of those stories are good I think. And as for Hemmingway, I think his short stories are good. He's so good at describing and create a mood...
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Post by Michelle on Feb 23, 2007 20:57:21 GMT -5
I also loved all of the stories in "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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Post by Lu on Feb 24, 2007 11:01:22 GMT -5
I love reading a short story when I've just finished a book and before starting the next one, that's why a book of short stories usually take me so long to finish. At the moment I'm reading Dostoevskji's stories and I'm enjoying them. My favourite short stories writer is Edgar Allan Poe, but I also liked so much Wilde's tales and Sherlock Holmes stories. I've also read stories by Joyce, Cechov, Sartre and by some italian authors such as Verga and Deledda. Next, I'd like to read short stories by Hemingway.
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