Well, I don't particularly like short stories (one form of reading I haven't done except in school), but from what we did read in school, there are three I like a lot. You've probably read them too, but, like I said, I've only read short stories in school.
"Bartleby the Scrivener," by Melville. One of the best things I've ever read. <3
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce. Such a cool idea.
"By the Waters of Babylon," by Stephen Vincent Benet, an awesome post-apocalyptic story.
I could probably make a much longer and more detailed list of short stories I've hated, though! (Topping it: London's "To Build a Fire," which I had to read in school not once but twice. Hatehatehatehatehate! Followed by Joyce's "The Dead." Stupid epiphanies.)
I recommend taste_is_sweet's journal. She recently posted a few stories I liked very much. Especially Only the Skin has this old-school fairy-tale feeling that makes me shudder and smile at the same time.
And my favourite fairy tale is Brother and Sister. The German version's a lot more lyrical than the English one, though, which is odd enough.
I absoloutely loved the short stories collection, "The Sixth Day" by Primo Levi. Most of the stories were more thought provoking rather than depressing. Lots of cool scienciness :)
One of my favorite collections of short stories is the Super Hugos collection from 1992. (Um, it's better than its cover might seem to indicate.) It's a collection of some of the most popular Hugo Award winners, and it's got all kinds of classic sci-fi short stories: Bicentennial Man, Flowers for Algernon, Enemy Mine (all significantly better than the movies that were made of them), Neutron Star, Sandkings, and others.
It possibly includes Heinlein's All You Zombies, but my copy seems to have wandered away, so this is off the top of my head. If All You Zombies isn't in that collection, it's definitely in some Heinlein collection, and worthy a (mind-trippy) read. There's Cool Green Hills of Earth, which is a lot of classic Heinlein, but it might not be in that one. (Still, that's great for some golden age of sci-fi future-history style stories. Even if they're not from the precise Golden Age of Sci-Fi (I'm all fuzzy on my genre chronology).) I'm ambivalent about Heinlein -- in some respects he's one of my favorite authors, he
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"Bartleby the Scrivener," by Melville. One of the best things I've ever read. <3
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce. Such a cool idea.
"By the Waters of Babylon," by Stephen Vincent Benet, an awesome post-apocalyptic story.
I could probably make a much longer and more detailed list of short stories I've hated, though! (Topping it: London's "To Build a Fire," which I had to read in school not once but twice. Hatehatehatehatehate! Followed by Joyce's "The Dead." Stupid epiphanies.)
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Haven't heard of the other two, so I'll look those out.
Thank you! :)
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And my favourite fairy tale is Brother and Sister. The German version's a lot more lyrical than the English one, though, which is odd enough.
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It possibly includes Heinlein's All You Zombies, but my copy seems to have wandered away, so this is off the top of my head. If All You Zombies isn't in that collection, it's definitely in some Heinlein collection, and worthy a (mind-trippy) read. There's Cool Green Hills of Earth, which is a lot of classic Heinlein, but it might not be in that one. (Still, that's great for some golden age of sci-fi future-history style stories. Even if they're not from the precise Golden Age of Sci-Fi (I'm all fuzzy on my genre chronology).) I'm ambivalent about Heinlein -- in some respects he's one of my favorite authors, he ( ... )
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None of the local libraries have that collection. D: I'll have to see if I can look up a few of those stories individually.
Thank you! :D
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