Unless someone can invent the time machine...Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
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Unless someone can invent the time machine...Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
I recently read Veronika Decides to Die by Paolo Coelho and I liked it. I saw the movie trailer a few days ago and I got rather curious to read the book, because people said it's more detailed and has a great story. I heard the movie has received rave reviews too and so, I went out and searched for the book.
I'll probably hunt more short stories to read soon. :D
My favourite short stories are probably The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Behind a Mask by Louisa May Alcott, and Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell.
My favorite short story would have to be a story I read in the tenth grade. It was called The Most Dangerous Game. It was very interesting and kept me hooked. I wanted to read it over and over again.
i like The Four Million by O Henry.
MarkC
I LOVE Kate Chopin's short stories. "The Story of an Hour" is my favorite by her. I also enjoyed Shirley Jackson's "The Tooth" very much as well as John Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums."
Erendira and her heartless grandmother --- Marquez
Closing my eyes, I can utter only the name of "Araby" by James Joyce...It's a brilliant example of Joyce's craftsmanship.
I love this thread.
I like Kafka's stories above anything else and his Metamorphosis is a somewhat lengthened story that appeals to my palate. I have read it, reread it and never got satisfied, not that I did not like the book but that each reading gave me something really new and appealing in point of fact. I like the style he used at times lengthening sentences illimitably. He was really a great writer, a trend-setter and I wish I could write like him, the beauty of his writing is unsurpassed and no one could beat him and as a matter of fact he was capable of putting in words the predicaments or circumstances circumscribing the modern man. In fact all of us in this world of commerce wherein real values are gauged in terms of money and careers and people lost sensibility today and man is a heap of dry bones or a Skelton.
Indeed he was a matchless writer. He disdained popularity and wanted his books to be burned and he got more popularity posthumously. He is a writer we have none to compare with, for he is an originator of new style in writing.
I agree. Kafka stands alone. He is one of the greatest writers, and perhaps the most underrated; and the Metamorphosis is the most unique thing that's ever been written. His shorter works, such as The Hunger Artist and The Penal Colony, are also unique.
Probably Mark Twain's short story about Adam and Eve.
If you haven't read alice munroe yet, give her a try. She's terrific.
big bad wolf
Truman Capote - My Side of the Matter
Henry James - A Bundle of Letters