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07-12-2018, 12:30 PM
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Short Stories
As I get older I find myself reading shorter novels and collections of short stories instead of trying to motor through a 600 page book. I just finished Stephen King's Bag of Bones and really loved it and will definitely be going to find more of his stuff. I've also read a few of Vonnegut's collections and they were fantastic too. Any reccomended books or authors I can keep an eye out for? Anything semi Vonnegut/King would be great but I'm open to just about anything that won't put me to sleep.
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07-13-2018, 01:20 PM
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Really fun reads that are easy on the brain. I wrote a couple of short stories 30 years ago inspired by King that I can email to anyone interested. They're in PDF format. Shoot me a PM.
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07-13-2018, 01:28 PM
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Kings stories would make great films but with the recent track record of movies based on his novels I'm not holding out for anything lol. the Jaunt in particular is a favorite or Mrs. Todd's shortcut... very Big Fish/Benjamin Button-y.
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07-12-2018, 12:38 PM
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As a lazy intellectual, short stories make up some of my favourite works. Anything by Joyce Carol Oates or Flannery O'Connor is worth your time. A few other favourites
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Bees by Dan Chaon The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka Turn of the Screw by Henry James (more of a novella but whatever) 1408 by Stephen "Absolute Hack" King And for fun I'd like to redisclose that Ray Bradbury is an on-the-nose technophobe with a boring writing style.
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07-12-2018, 12:42 PM
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^^ thanks I'll definitely be getting some of those if they have copies. It's a second hand bookstore so it can be hit or miss but they have alot.
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07-12-2018, 12:44 PM
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PDFs of all of them except for the Turn of the Screw (I only assume it's not up because of the length) can be found pretty easily online if you're okay with that mode of reading.
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07-12-2018, 02:15 PM
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