[ebooktalk] Re: SHORT STORIES
- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:25:29 +0100
Steve,
I often feel unhappy about reading short stories. You are so often left
with something inconclusive, which rather cheats the reader.
Talking of short stories, with some help from Sandra I have been using Sound
Taxi to convert Audible.co.uk books into mp3 files. One book I have is the
Granta collection of new writers which we talked about on this list a few
weeks ago. If sound taxi works well for me, and it looks like it will, then
I may put up a sendspace link for anyone interested to pick up the audio
book. The files are too large to attach them, but sendspace is very easy to
use and you do not need an account to pick up the files.
If anyone is interested in the Granta book, or picking up audio books
converted from Audible, could they let me know off list. I will not bother
to put them up if no one wants them.
My email address is
David.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx
The books do take ages to convert, so it may take me a day or two but I
think one or two of you might like to read the Granta book.
David
From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
Sent: 30 April 2013 09:11
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ebooktalk] SHORT STORIES
Hello
I have just finished The Country Before Us, The Country Behind Us by David
Gutterson. It is a fairly small collection of short stories. I thoroughly
enjoyed reading the stories but as often happens with short stories I am
left feeling unsatisfied. Firstly I don't know why the book has this title -
it was not one of the stories and there did not seem to be a particular
theme running through them that related to the title. Many of the stories
were very good and worked fine. A couple of them felt like outlines for
something more substantial.
As a reading experience it just feels as if there is something missing - not
a complete book.
With an anthology of short stories by different authors I am happy to read
one story and that is it. It seems complete. When an author creates a book
of stories I feel I need to read the book and expect it to add up to a
complete entity but in this case - and many others - this doesn't seem to
happen. The individual stories don't seem to stand on their own.
Steve
Other related posts:
