Anyone read short stories also? Do you confused after read some of them?
Anyone read short stories also? Do you confused after read some of them?
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Anyone read short stories also? Do you confused after read some of them?
I love short stories! And yes, some of them are confusing. I have to read them a couple times to better understand them.
Sometimes I mesh the stories together if I read too many at the same time.
This is my favourite book with short stories, was a requirement for one of my college classes.
Title: Literature: A Portable Anthology
I love short stories! I think it takes more talent to write something short than a long book, you have to make an impact with fewer words. In my view, short stories are a glimpse into a life or a situation, not a novel with a beginning, middle and end. You have to release your expectation of a plot, and just go with the story. Jhumpa Lahiri’s short stories are some of my favorites.
Stephen King’s shorts are my favourite SK stories.
I’m more of a ” novel ” person. Love to read novellas. Sometimes I read short stories. Maupassant n Chekhov are my favourite short story writers. I don’t find short stories confusing.
I found Alice Munro s confusing.
Truman Capote’s short stories are magical!
I like a Short story between Novels. I’m half way through this wonderful compilation of a dozen short Westerns. The Big Book of Western Action Stories, I was hooked with the first story, 15 pages by Ernest Haycox ‘The Code’. Not at all what I expected.
Some of my favorite short stories were written by O. Henry and Saki. They’re very old, but so well written. For new stories, I like the yearly anthologies for travel, nature, mystery, etc.
I love O’Henry short stories, also Ray Bradbury and Sir Author Conan Doyle.
I love short stories. Writing a great short story requires vision and artistic discipline in order to capture something profoundly impactful in a tiny package. Some are straightforward and easy to appreciate. But others seem to pinball around in us, demanding more attention over time. I first fell in love with stories by Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain, and then Guy de Maupassant, and the Russians Gogol, Pushkin and Turgenev. Contemporary favorites are Lorrie Moore and Jhumpa Lahiri.
I read both.