[ebooktalk] Re: SHORT STORIES
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:21:38 +0100
I have to admit to rarely reading short stories. When my hubby's eyes were in
better shape he used to read short ghost stories from mix collection books. We
really loved them. We've never moved over to doing the same on audio now he
can't read. I don't fancy reading a book all by the same author, although on a
radio 4 program recently a book of short stories by J. D. Salinger caught my
attention. However I gave up on Catcher In The Rye, so haven't been motivated
to actually seak the short story book out to read yet.
Shell.
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From: "Steven Bingham" <steven.bingham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 9:11 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] SHORT STORIES
> Hello
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> 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.
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> As a reading experience it just feels as if there is something missing - not
> a complete book.
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> 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.
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> Steve
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