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Hey /lit/,

can you recommend any short stories?
I recently read :
- Franz Kafka - The Judgement
- Jack London - To Build a Fire

>> No.1572692

J.D. Salinger - A Perfect Day for Bananafish

>> No.1572695

THE RED LAUGH - ANDREYEV

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Contents of the Dead Man's Pockets
Jack Finney
(type title get on-line-profit)

not well written but a great idea worth stealing
and the title is fucking cash

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cheers guys
any more?

>> No.1572930

Rashomon- Akutagawa

>> No.1572935

Sonny's Blues - James Baldwin

I love that story

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>>1572676
To Build a Fire fucking sucks.

I recommend:

Where Are You Going
Where Have You Been
by Joyce Carol Oates

Franny
by J.D. Salinger

The Most Beautiful Woman In Town
by Charles Bukowski

The Library of Babel
by Jorge Luis Borges

The Fall of the House of Usher
by Edgar Allen Poe

>> No.1572945

>>1572941
Why does it suck?
I thought it was alright.

>> No.1572970

>>1572945
I just thought it was really boring.
I guess that's just my personal opinion though, I had a hard time getting through it.

Out of all the ones that I suggested though, if I could ask you to read just one I'd ask you to read Franny.
It's probably one of my favorite short stories.

>> No.1572990

>>1572970
oh ok, I'll give that a go first then!