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04-02-2015, 04:52 AM #1Registered User
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Best Short Story You've Ever Read ??
Who's got em?
I like stuff in the vein of SciFi, couple personal favorites are Kurt Vonnegut - "Harrison Bergeron" and Isaac Asimov - "The Last Question." Roald Dahl has some great ones too, especially if you like twist endings. Who do yall read?
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04-02-2015, 05:35 AM #2
"Rattlesnakes" by Irvine Welsh
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04-02-2015, 05:40 AM #3Registered User
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Does Shawshank Redemption count as a short story?
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04-02-2015, 05:43 AM #4No Roger, No Rerun, No Rent
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04-02-2015, 06:22 AM #5
Not scifi: The Big Two=Hearted River by Hemingway.
Best collection: Rock Springs by Richard Ford
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04-02-2015, 07:17 AM #6
Borges.
"Funes the Memorious"
and a bunch of others by him are my favoritesMerde De Glace On the Freak When Ski
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04-02-2015, 07:26 AM #7
Rescue Party and The Nine Billion Names of God, both by Arthur C. Clarke
Surface Tension by James Blish
To Build a Fire by Jack London
Nightfall by Asimov
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Every chapter of The Mad Scientists’ Club by Bertrand R. Brinley, particularly the one about the satchel of stolen money hidden in the Civil War cannon
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04-03-2015, 09:49 PM #8
Phil Dick authored a bunch of interesting and fun short SciFi stories.
Daniel Ortega eats here.
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04-04-2015, 05:16 PM #9
The Woodpile by Russell Banks
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04-04-2015, 08:51 PM #10
The Tenth of December by George Saunders was a recent highlight.
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04-04-2015, 09:38 PM #11
Song of the Sausage Creature
by Hunter S. Thompson
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04-05-2015, 12:38 AM #12
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04-05-2015, 08:41 AM #13Registered User
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I grew up reading Vonnegut and Dahl. Now only seem to read short fiction in Harpers each month, and it's hit and miss for me. The writers in the genre that stand out for me are Alice Munro and Tim Winton. Hard to go wrong with either.
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04-05-2015, 08:52 AM #14
Thomas McGuane is my favorite these days.
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04-05-2015, 05:35 PM #15Registered User
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I am in to war and dark stuff sometimes so I like chickamagua and occurrence at owl creek by Ambrose beirce. He's been dead over 100 years so all his stuff is on Wikipedia
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04-06-2015, 04:49 AM #16Registered User
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04-07-2015, 02:03 AM #17
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04-07-2015, 08:27 AM #18
I teach Joyce's Eveline every year. I think its achingly beautiful, the kids think its just dang depressing.
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04-24-2015, 05:42 AM #19Minion
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check the trip reports in this forum. there are some great short storys.
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04-24-2015, 10:03 AM #20
A few that have stuck with me over the years:
"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson
"Along The Scenic Route" - Harlan Ellison
"'Repent, Harlequin!' Said The Tick-Tock Man" - Harlan Ellison
"The Night They Missed The Drive-In" - Joe R. Lansdale
"On The Far Side of the Cadillac Desert" - Joe R. Lansdale
At The Jim Bridger is a great collection by Ron Carlson
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04-24-2015, 10:19 AM #21
Off the top of my head:
A Tell Tale Heart
A Cask of Amantillado
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
The Necklace
To Build a Fire
The Lottery
A Good Man is Hard to Find
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
Haircut
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07-04-2015, 05:53 AM #22
The Dead by James Joyce
A good man is hard to find by Flannery O'Conner
Pirx the Pilot by Stanislav Lem
The Three Hermits by Leo Tolstoy.
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07-07-2015, 08:22 PM #23
The Body by Stephen King.
You may know it as the movie, Stand by MeI still call it The Jake.
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07-07-2015, 08:38 PM #24
The Farmer's Daughter by Jim Harrison
Trout Magic by Robert TraverSomething about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown
And I never hear a single word you say when you tell me not to have my fun
It's the same old shit that I ain't gonna take off anyone.
and I never had a shortage of people tryin' to warn me about the dangers I pose to myself.
Patterson Hood of the DBT's
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07-07-2015, 08:41 PM #25
Best Short Story You've Ever Read ??
The Old Man and The Sea - Hemingway - just so capturing and well written.
Night - Wiesel - read at an early age and so raw, real, and eye opening.
...both ~100 pages = novellas?Last edited by Doremite; 07-07-2015 at 09:01 PM.
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