03-22-2011, 06:01 AM | #1 |
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Like short stories?
If you like short stories I read this great book over the weekend.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feathers/dp/...0788031&sr=1-9 |
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Short stories have some merit, but a after a recent experience with two I picked up from Smashwords - I've learnt to be a little wary.
1) Book of Short Stories, Volume 1 : Only read three of the contents; why, because each of these three were continued in Volume 2..... 2) Book of Short Stories : Only read two of these; why, because this was a book of excerpts.....please pay for each full story! And yet for neither of these can I remember seeing in the intro write-up, nor the preview, that these stories were not complete. |
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Thanks for that Mel. Short Stories are my favorites. I'll keep this one in mind.
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A couple short story collections I like is Jeffrey Deaver's Twisted and David Morrell's Black Evening. Both very good.
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Topic drift, but that was the thing that pissed me off about "The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing" edited by Richard Dawkins. It was mostly short excerpts from full-length works. Pissed me off it did.
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I don't think I've ever seen any such thing here, which is why I was a bit confused when Geoff brought it up. Maybe it's an English/European thing? |
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I have seen anthologies with excerpts from larger works, like a fantasy anthology with a chapter of The Lord of the Rings along with the short stories, but it didn't call itself a short story anthology, just an anthology.
Here's a nice on-line short story: Why I Live at the P.O. by Eudora Welty |
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I've only read 76 of the 334 on the list.
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