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as much as he's been dismissed as a "dead white male" etc etc---
i think hemingway's short stories are awesome sure, once you read them all they get a little repetitive (wounded penises everywhere), but some are such masterpieces! among my favorite -a clean, well lighted place -the killers -the snows of kilimanjaro -cat in the rain -the nun & the radio... something like that, damn i cnat remember so many. really great. |
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Hemingway is pretty much the best short story writer of the 20th Century. His "minimal" approach to story writing has influenced just about every writer that came after him.......I read a ton of short stories in college and his influence can really be seen.
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Chuck Palahniuk is fucking spectacular. obviously fight club and choke are both incredible novels. for salinger the one where the veteran is on a vacation with his wife and he ends up killing himself after the lady is staring at his feet (or he thinks she is) in the elevator is incredible. i don't remember the name though
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I plan on checking out Hemingway's Complete Short Stories from my school library. I like the novels of his that I've read.
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Young Goodman Brown is my favorite of all time
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Yeah man do it! They are great to read maybe one or two a night because they are so short.
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"Emergency" by Denis Johnson, and his whole Jesus' Son collection (all of the stories involve the same character, so it is somewhat cohesive). A big influence on Chuck Palahniuk.
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The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka (novella) my favortie short work
The Gold-Bug - Edgar Allan Poe (tale)...of course he has so many other classic tales, but this one, The Murders of Rue Morgue, & The Purloined Letter featuring his C. Auguste Dupin character are my favorites. The Black Cat is a masterpiece & The Imp Of the Perverse is also very noteworthy. The Cossacks, The Devil, Master & Man, & Alyosha The Pot from my Tolstoy Short Stories book impressed me greatly. The Double, The Christmas Tree & a Wedding, Notes From Underground (novella), White Nights, The Crocodile are probably my picks by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Lazarus - Leonid Andreyev Misery, A Dead Body, The Duel - Anton Chekhov The Queen of Spades - Alexandr Pushkin The Cloak - Nikolai Gogol An Anarchist - Joseph Conrad Yeah, Ernest Hemingway is masterful at crafting short stories: The Killers, The Big Two-Hearted River, The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber are probably my favorites. I had read too much about A Clean Well-Lighted Place before I read it, I think. I wonder if Hemingway ever read Turgenev's A Sportsman's Sketches. His writing definitely owes something to Anton Chekov & Honore de Balzac. Magister Ludi or The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha (novella) - Herman Hesse From high school & college I especially remember Bret Harte's The Luck of Roaring Camp, Twain's The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County & of course, Shirley Jackson's The Lottery. William S. Burroughs' autobographical Junky is a short novel, about the same length as a short story. blots, I liked the movie Jesus' Son; I should probably check out some Denis Johnson. That sounded weird. Penis Johnson? I should probably read some D. Johnson. |
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Ambrose Bierce
Always been a favorite. |
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