Comments | greenbryeth: on the off chance anyone reads this...

greenbryeth

on the off chance anyone reads this...

Jul 02, 2006 10:30

sooo i need a book of short stories for class...

it can't be an anthology and it has to have been written since 2000...

any suggestions?

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greenbryeth July 2 2006, 19:48:13 UTC

wish i could...cant be sci-fi or fantasy either...which is why i have no clue where to even begin looking...blah! stupid close-minded teachers...

Um... selene007 July 2 2006, 20:45:16 UTC

Ok... First off, how can it be a collection of short stories and not be an anthology. This may sound stupid of me but I always thought that's what an anthology is. And... dictionary.com says it is too. " A collection of literary pieces, such as poems, short stories, or plays." Anywho, I went through some of my text books and found some books of short stories. I will list them and if they sound somewhat interesting you can borrow/probably have them. I dunno. We should catch up and do lunch or something anyways. = )

1) Collected Stories by Frank O'Connor. (From my Irish Lit, class. It's really big and you're sure to find a few good short stories in there.)

2) Modern Irish Short Stories Edited by Ben Forkner. (Also from my Irish Lit class.)

3) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It's poetry/short stories. I'm not sure if this is acceptable. I mean, they're really short stories written in a poem-like way. Oh hell. You probably can't use this one but I thought I'd put it up there just in case. Oh, and you can't ( ... )

Re: Um... greenbryeth July 3 2006, 04:29:36 UTC

haha thanx...the problem with an anthlogy is that it is written by multiple authors, and the i need a book of shorts all by the same author...

i will check out the first two...but the canterbury tales is too old (2000 or more recent) and the fourth sounds like and anthology...

thanks, though!

Re: Um... selene007 July 3 2006, 21:09:33 UTC

Ooooh. I kind of missed that 2000 or more recent part. I'm not sure why since your post was really short. >_< Oh well. I don't think the others will work for you then since one is an anthology and the other is old. *sigh* I'm sorry. I tried though!

Re: Um... greenbryeth July 3 2006, 23:39:59 UTC

haha no worries...im gonna just go on and talk to my prof about it, see if he has any suggestions...thanks though!