favorite short stories

dietzer123 · 03.28.2006, 01:10 AM

harrison burgeoron by kurt vonnegut and the first one out of tales of ordinary madness by charles b. are probably my top two.

noumenal · 03.28.2006, 01:13 AM

I can't think of many right now, but I've read some good ones by Borges and Updike. Oh yeah, Dubliners by James Joyce. Oh and Flannery O'Connor.

krastian · 03.28.2006, 02:38 AM

Well I'm kind of drunk and can't post an accurate list without getting out a bunch of books so I'll just name a few of my favorite short story writers: Raymond Carver, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Conner (good call noumenal), Faulkner, John Cheever....a bunch more.

dietzer123 · 03.28.2006, 02:41 AM

it's sad when you're in high school and you get wasted alone on school nights. i've spent the past hour or so drinking and really enjoying it so fuck it

nicfit · 03.28.2006, 03:15 AM

Carmilla ,by Le Fanu.

LifeDistortion · 03.28.2006, 03:29 AM

Any of the short stories by Rolad Dahl. He's incredible. If you haven't read any of his short shorties its a definate must, stories like "Lamb To The Slaugther", or "The Hitchhiker". The closest writer I know that is very Dahl like is T.C. Boyle is is also one of my favorites when it comes to short stories. Read all of his stories too, you won't regret it. "Top of the Food Chain" is a bona fide classic.

Hip Priest · 03.28.2006, 04:10 AM

My favoured short story authors:

HP Lovecraft
Nicola BArker
Evelyn Waugh
Giovanni Guareschi
Clark Ashton Smith
MIchael Bond
Arthur MAchen
Guy de MAupassant

Bertrand · 03.28.2006, 08:30 AM

Has anybody else read Toby Litt's New Puritans? I don't wanna be the only one who got scared reading that late at night...

A Thousand Threads · 03.28.2006, 08:40 AM

yeah
Lovecraft short stories are very good
no one mentioned Kafka
"In der Strafkolonie" is my favourite short story ever

Savage Clone · 03.28.2006, 09:05 AM

Love the Lovecraft!

In that vein, "Ubbo Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith is pretty amazing.

jheii · 03.28.2006, 09:08 AM

Nice to see people shouting out Flannery O'Conner. As a tour guide I take people by the house where she grew up, but I've stopped pointing it out to them because no one, save an English teacher from Tennessee, ever knows who she is. Dubliners by Joyce and A Moveable Feast by Hemingway stand out as my favorite collections of short stories. Also Baudelaire and De Maupassant as far as French writers go.

whorefrost · 03.28.2006, 10:34 AM

Ray Bradbury - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellars!
Ray Bradbury - A Flight of Ravens

utilises the same atmosphere of parananoic tension and unease that is used in Fahrenheit 451. utterly thrilling

truncated · 03.28.2006, 11:38 AM

I know he's got his opponents, but J.D. Salinger writes a mean short story. Anything out of "Nine Stories" is good. And I rather dig Somerset Maugham too.

jon boy · 03.28.2006, 01:54 PM

this is going to be the worst description on earth but about 18 months ago i read in a saturday guardian suplement the most horrifying but amazing short story.

it was called guts but i cant remember the authors name! basically to cut a long and tedious story short, it involves a swimming pool, a horny pubescent male and biting through your own intenstines to stop yourself from drowning.

thats distinctly gross but it was a very good read.

Kim C Not G · 03.28.2006, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jon boy

this is going to be the worst description on earth but about 18 months ago i read in a saturday guardian suplement the most horrifying but amazing short story.

it was called guts but i cant remember the authors name! basically to cut a long and tedious story short, it involves a swimming pool, a horny pubescent male and biting through your own intenstines to stop yourself from drowning.

thats distinctly gross but it was a very good read.

Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.

jon boy · 03.29.2006, 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kim C Not G

Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.

thanks, that was kinda bugging me.

player_piano · 03.29.2006, 07:11 AM

In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway
A collection of early short stories in Hemingway's own remarkable sparse style. Makes every word count. Very atmospheric and calming about men returning from war. Sublime.

The 97th Hammer · 04.01.2006, 01:03 AM

Some short stories I've enjoyed recently.
Lit:
Reflections-Angela Carter
The School-Donald Barthelme
Sc-Fi:
The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa-Johnathan Lethem and Lucas Jaeger
The Ant King-Benjamin Rosenbaum

For collections "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson was a good read (Need to lay my hands on a couple of his novels). I read the title story out of Carver's "Cathedral" for a class and should probably pick up the whole thing at some point. I read a collection of Vonnegut's short stories when I was in high school but the only thing I remember about it now is a nasty contraceptive that made people piss blue.

noumenal · 04.01.2006, 01:41 AM

Mark Twain. Don't forget him.

krastian · 04.01.2006, 04:14 PM

Yeah Twain has some good ones too......nice Shining pic noumenal.

03.28.2006, 01:10 AM	#1
dietzer123 stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 419	harrison burgeoron by kurt vonnegut and the first one out of tales of ordinary madness by charles b. are probably my top two. __________________ I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth.-bill hicks
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03.28.2006, 01:13 AM	#2
noumenal expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,855	I can't think of many right now, but I've read some good ones by Borges and Updike. Oh yeah, Dubliners by James Joyce. Oh and Flannery O'Connor.
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03.28.2006, 02:38 AM	#3
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	Well I'm kind of drunk and can't post an accurate list without getting out a bunch of books so I'll just name a few of my favorite short story writers: Raymond Carver, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Conner (good call noumenal), Faulkner, John Cheever....a bunch more. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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03.28.2006, 02:41 AM	#4
dietzer123 stalker Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 419	it's sad when you're in high school and you get wasted alone on school nights. i've spent the past hour or so drinking and really enjoying it so fuck it __________________ I smoke. If this bothers anyone, I suggest you look around at the world in which we live and shut your fuckin' mouth.-bill hicks
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03.28.2006, 03:15 AM	#5
nicfit invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: banana boat Posts: 15,570	Carmilla ,by Le Fanu.
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03.28.2006, 03:29 AM	#6
LifeDistortion expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: CA Posts: 2,457	Any of the short stories by Rolad Dahl. He's incredible. If you haven't read any of his short shorties its a definate must, stories like "Lamb To The Slaugther", or "The Hitchhiker". The closest writer I know that is very Dahl like is T.C. Boyle is is also one of my favorites when it comes to short stories. Read all of his stories too, you won't regret it. "Top of the Food Chain" is a bona fide classic.
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03.28.2006, 04:10 AM	#7
Hip Priest invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Birkenhead Posts: 9,397	My favoured short story authors: HP Lovecraft Nicola BArker Evelyn Waugh Giovanni Guareschi Clark Ashton Smith MIchael Bond Arthur MAchen Guy de MAupassant __________________ Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. http://www.flickr.com/photos/outsidethecamp/
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03.28.2006, 08:30 AM	#8
Bertrand expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Rennes, France Posts: 1,255	Has anybody else read Toby Litt's New Puritans? I don't wanna be the only one who got scared reading that late at night...
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03.28.2006, 08:40 AM	#9
A Thousand Threads expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,000	yeah Lovecraft short stories are very good no one mentioned Kafka "In der Strafkolonie" is my favourite short story ever
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03.28.2006, 09:05 AM	#10
Savage Clone invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 11,286	Love the Lovecraft! In that vein, "Ubbo Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith is pretty amazing.
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03.28.2006, 09:08 AM	#11
jheii bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Savannah, GA Posts: 224	Nice to see people shouting out Flannery O'Conner. As a tour guide I take people by the house where she grew up, but I've stopped pointing it out to them because no one, save an English teacher from Tennessee, ever knows who she is. Dubliners by Joyce and A Moveable Feast by Hemingway stand out as my favorite collections of short stories. Also Baudelaire and De Maupassant as far as French writers go. __________________ "In the room the women come and go With Vodka-mixed orange Jello"
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03.28.2006, 10:34 AM	#12
whorefrost invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Arrived in Smoke, Arrived in Gold Posts: 2,568	Ray Bradbury - Boys! Raise Giant Mushrooms in Your Cellars! Ray Bradbury - A Flight of Ravens utilises the same atmosphere of parananoic tension and unease that is used in Fahrenheit 451. utterly thrilling
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03.28.2006, 11:38 AM	#13
truncated invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 3,607	I know he's got his opponents, but J.D. Salinger writes a mean short story. Anything out of "Nine Stories" is good. And I rather dig Somerset Maugham too.
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03.28.2006, 01:54 PM	#14
jon boy invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: psycho battery Posts: 12,161	this is going to be the worst description on earth but about 18 months ago i read in a saturday guardian suplement the most horrifying but amazing short story. it was called guts but i cant remember the authors name! basically to cut a long and tedious story short, it involves a swimming pool, a horny pubescent male and biting through your own intenstines to stop yourself from drowning. thats distinctly gross but it was a very good read.
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03.29.2006, 07:11 AM	#17
player_piano empty page Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Scotland Posts: 2	In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway A collection of early short stories in Hemingway's own remarkable sparse style. Makes every word count. Very atmospheric and calming about men returning from war. Sublime.
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04.01.2006, 01:03 AM	#18
The 97th Hammer bad moon rising Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Iowa City Posts: 133	Some short stories I've enjoyed recently. Lit: Reflections-Angela Carter The School-Donald Barthelme Sc-Fi: The Elvis National Theater of Okinawa-Johnathan Lethem and Lucas Jaeger The Ant King-Benjamin Rosenbaum For collections "Burning Chrome" by William Gibson was a good read (Need to lay my hands on a couple of his novels). I read the title story out of Carver's "Cathedral" for a class and should probably pick up the whole thing at some point. I read a collection of Vonnegut's short stories when I was in high school but the only thing I remember about it now is a nasty contraceptive that made people piss blue.
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04.01.2006, 01:41 AM	#19
noumenal expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,855	Mark Twain. Don't forget him.
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04.01.2006, 04:14 PM	#20
krastian invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Baltimore Posts: 7,808	Yeah Twain has some good ones too......nice Shining pic noumenal. __________________ Confusion is next and next after that is the Truth.
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