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| tribu |
In pair with the many good books threads. Here's a few in no particular order:
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Winter Dreams
Stuart Dybek - Pet Milk
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria
Brett Harte - The Oucasts of Poker Flat
Richard Connell - The Most Dangerous Game
Dorothy Allison - River of Names
Margaret Attwood - Happy Endings
Andrea Barrett - The Litoral Zone
Donald Barthelme - The School
J.D. Sallinger - A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Richard Bausch - The Man who Knew Belle Starr
Charles Baxter - Gryphon
Ann Beattie - Janus
Junot Diaz - Fiesta, 1980
Andre Dubus - The Fat Girl
Pam Houston - How to Talk to a Hunter
Ha Jin - The Woman from New York
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent
William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
O Henry - The Gift of the Magi |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
In pair with the many good books threads. Here's a few in no particular order:
Stephen King - The Little Sisters of Eluria
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Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden.
more of a novella, than a short; but still a great read.
SK rocks! |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
Stephen King - Secret Window, Secret Garden.
more of a novella, than a short; but still a great read.
SK rocks! |
The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think.
As for me, there's a collection by Leo Tolstoy "Divine and Human" that's very good. I also love Fitzgerald, so I'll have to check out the suggestion in the first post. |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think.
As for me, there's a collection by Leo Tolstoy "Divine and Human" that's very good. I also love Fitzgerald, so I'll have to check out the suggestion in the first post. |
Winter Dreams
My favorite short story ever. So, I lied when I said no particular order. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
Winter Dreams
My favorite short story ever. So, I lied when I said no particular order. |
:happy2:
Tender is the Night is my favorite novel of his. I'll def. check out that collection though. |
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| BLuEOcEaN420 |
| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper
William Faulkner - A Rose for Emily
Jhumpa Lahiri - The Third and Final Continent
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*The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
*Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
*The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
i remember reading The Yellow Wallpaper and A Rose for Emily for a class in HS and getting the chills from them. good stories nonetheless. even now, i still get creeped out thinking about those stories. i guess it must have left a pretty darn big impression on me.:nervous:
if you liked Jhumpa Lahiri's The Third and Final Continent, you should check out her book The Interpreter of Maladies... it's a collection of her short stories including the aforementioned The Third and Final Continent. i just finished reading that book and really enjoyed it and i'm waiting for my copy of The Namesake to arrive. |
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| igottaknow |
| Three Little Pigs has always been a favorite of mine. |
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| tribu |
| quote: | Originally posted by BLuEOcEaN420
*The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
*Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
*The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe... |
I never really liked A Rose for Emily but The Yellow Wallpaper is exeptional. I take that back. A Rose for Emily is good too, but it's been required reading for me so many times that I've forgotten how good it can be.
I actually have Interpreter but Ive haven't had a chance to go through it.
And of course, most Poe stories are classics.
I find it hard to believe that no one else here can suggest good short stories, but no one ever responds to my posts seriously |
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| jrbuddha |
I really enjoy Stephen Kings short stories, well...almost all his stuff really.
| quote: | | The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption are also novella's by him too I think. |
Shawshank Redemption is, but The Green Mile was a "serial" novel. Originally released over time as 6 short novels. So call it what you want lol.
Interesting read also....a short story that caused quite a stir among the interweb:
http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm
go to his main news page and he has a long response due to the way it was received. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
There's a publishing company out there that finds works by prolific authors that are from 80-120 pages (novellas I guess) and publishes them. I've bought a couple books from them now, including Hadji Murat by Tolstoy (one of my favorites), Arctic Winter by Forster, Ruslan and Lyudmila by Pushkin, etc.
Hesperus Press I think it's called. Anyway, so far everything I've read of theirs has been quality. Amazon carries a lot of their titles for around 10 bucks a book. |
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| Aureus |
Once upon a time, they lived happily ever after. The End
incredible substance... this should be required reading for people everywhere. True American classic. |
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| Azz3D |
isaac asimov "nightfall"
arthur c clarke "the sentinel"
harlan ellison "i have no mouth and i must scream" |
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