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Short Story Group Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:26:08 2020 No.16154461 [Reply] [Original]

Short Story Group?

This board is godawful and has hardly any actual literature discussion. The group that reads books together can be good, but it probably excludes a lot of people because they may not want to read that particular book, or it seems like it'll take too long, etc.
So I propose a short story group, where we read one short story a week or whatever and discuss it, it'll probably attract more people since it's more accessible than reading all of Moby Dick or IJ, and it'll be easy to jump in and out of the weeks whenever you want so it's not like there's a big commitment.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:31:15 2020 No.16154496 File: 32 KB, 739x415, images-33.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm in, fren But I think one short story per week is too little, I suggest one every three days at least.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:34:56 2020 No.16154514 >>16154496 That could work too, I just think it could be annoying if we move on to a different story but people are still discussing the previous short story in the same thread, maybe we should do a new thread for each story

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:37:11 2020 No.16154526 I would be very down for this. I think 1 story a week is enough so it doesn't get in the way of my regular reading. I would participate in this for sure.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:40:14 2020 No.16154538 >>16154514 >maybe we should do a new thread for each story Yes, that's exactly what we should do.

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 18:42:52 2020 No.16154547

I'm down
I'm so sick of this fucking board, if I have to see another bait thread with Marx or Kat I'm gonna kill someone
I think we should plan on doing 1 story per week, but if the discussion on it dies down just start the next thread early. I wouldn't make it a general because then it'll just become too confusing/a circlejerk

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:06:38 2020 No.16154660 >>16154461 I'm in. We could all buy a compilation and read it cover to cover.

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:11:40 2020 No.16154686

>>16154660
That's sort of the opposite of why this group exists. Doing that necessitates the type of commitment we should avoid due to alienating people. It'd be better to pick random stories (preferably) available online in hopes of as getting as many people on board as possible

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:13:27 2020 No.16154700 >>16154686 yes I agree with that, jump around between authors and read a mix of well known and hidden gems, I agree that we should only read what we can find PDFs of

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:14:46 2020 No.16154708 So what story do you want to read first?

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:16:08 2020 No.16154714

>>16154700
>>16154708
My first pick is "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Conner, pretty famous and I think could lead to a good discussion

Found a pdf
https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/160332/A%20good%20man%20is%20hard%20to%20find%20-%20Flannery%20O%27Connor.pdf

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:18:56 2020 No.16154732 >>16154714 Can we do something a little less well known? How about The Gay Old Dog by Edna Farber https://americanliterature.com/author/edna-ferber/short-story/the-gay-old-dog

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:19:34 2020 No.16154735 File: 789 KB, 1398x1110, thinking peg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16154461 what's the height requirement?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:23:18 2020 No.16154760 >>16154732 Actually nvm that's not the right version and I can't find the correct one online that's well formatted. https://archive.org/stream/TheGayOldDog/The%20Gay%20Old%20Dog_djvu.txt

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:27:46 2020 No.16154795 >>16154732 I don't mind either way >>16154735 6'5

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:27:47 2020 No.16154796 File: 109 KB, 1022x1024, 1597688739183.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] nominating Another Pioneer by DFW

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:29:10 2020 No.16154804 >>16154714 In the Penal Colony by Kafka would be a good read as well. http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~raha/793CA_web/PenalColony.pdf

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:29:19 2020 No.16154807 File: 64 KB, 819x581, 9CB0D0C1-E513-46CE-AC5D-ECD293ECE5DB.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16154461 As long as we read some Borges

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:40:21 2020 No.16154862
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>>16154807
This too, not being another anglo circle jerk and having authors of other languages is a must.

Also, there should be a more fair way to decide what we'll read.
>first person to get dubs chooses the author.
Would be great

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:41:25 2020 No.16154867 >>16154862 Rolling for http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:45:20 2020 No.16154896 >>16154867 Love this story, this could be good too. All good suggestions so far, we could compile this into a list and then just go down the list

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 19:50:57 2020 No.16154927

>>16154896
Nah, it's more fun if we decide one at a time. Making a big ass list would ruin the surprise and the thrill of seeing new stuff.

>>16154862
>first person to get dubs chooses the author.
Rolling for James Joyce. If it lands, the first reply to this post chooses the story (from Dubliners).

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:13:52 2020 No.16155091 >>16154862 O.Henry

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:31:05 2020 No.16155210 >>16154461 what waterlevel we at in Wuhan and TGD? Anything actually gonna happen or are we still just following the normal operations of a random fucking dam in a shithole region?

>>	l'chaim !!NW31gwdgGBV Mon Aug 17 20:33:27 2020 No.16155227 >>16154461 Good idea. >>16154714 I agree, been wanting to get into her for awhile now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:34:44 2020 No.16155234 >>16154461 I'm in. >>16154714 >>16154804 Coincidentally just read both of these about two weeks ago. Either way, I'm in.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:36:48 2020 No.16155253 File: 20 KB, 554x554, images-63.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>16155227 Roll for it then, you fucker.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:42:01 2020 No.16155277 >>16154461 How would be able to regularly met up online and form connections? We're anons.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 20:46:40 2020 No.16155308 >>16154927 Rolling for The Sisters

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 21:33:46 2020 No.16155598 Rolling for Nabokov's Dozen. (You) choose which one.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 21:37:15 2020 No.16155626 Rolling for a short story from The Plain in Flames by Juan Rulfo. First (you) decides which if dubs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 21:38:26 2020 No.16155640 >>16155626 Fuck this nigger group I'm out

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 22:20:50 2020 No.16155925 rolling for The Demoiselle d'Ys

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 22:24:32 2020 No.16155946 Rolling for O'Conner

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:02:41 2020 No.16156134 We should just pick something before the thread dies, threads can only sustain themselves for so long on this board if it's not mostly full of bait What about Babylon Revisited? I saw someone post a PDF in here already

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:20:48 2020 No.16156253 Hello God, it's me again Rolling for "La increible y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada" >>16156134 You gotta roll for it

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:29:30 2020 No.16156287 Time to end this, rolling for The Judgement by Kafka

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:39:43 2020 No.16156343 Rolling for "Heirs to the Living Body" by Munro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:43:28 2020 No.16156366 >>16156134 Rolling for BR

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:44:30 2020 No.16156371 >>16156366 And so it is decided.

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:48:04 2020 No.16156385 >>16156366 So 'BR' it is What's BR?

Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:55:22 2020 No.16156413
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>>16156366
>>16154461
We're reading Babylon Revisited, then.
OP when are you posting the first issue of the ShortStory Group?

Can it be agreed that in each issue we roll to decide which story should be read for the next one?

>>	Anonymous Mon Aug 17 23:57:15 2020 No.16156422 >>16156413 When should I? Right now? Or should we wait until we have more people on board maybe tomorrow? Yeah I think that sounds good. After the discussion on a story dies down we can start rolling

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 00:04:25 2020 No.16156461 >>16156422 I suggest you do it 18 hours from now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 01:00:58 2020 No.16156773 >>16156413 give us the link for Babylon Revisited rn so we don't have to wait for OP to make the new thread tomorrow

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 01:03:08 2020 No.16156781 >>16150097 please read my short story and let me know how to improve it before its thread dies

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 01:36:07 2020 No.16156946 >>16156773 'Babylon Revisited and Ofher Stories', by F. Scot Fitzgerald. - EPUB download https://b-ok.lat/book/4007763/f81e92

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 02:47:04 2020 No.16157292 >>16156781 Roll for your own short story next time, bucko.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 03:58:36 2020 No.16157575 What you should do is chart out a calendar with all the stories you intend on reading for the month. Also rolling for The Egg by Sherwood Anderson.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 04:49:57 2020 No.16157776 >>16154804 Thanks anon, I'm in

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 06:46:51 2020 No.16158133 >>16156946 >>16156366 >>16156773 Babylon Revisited on Gutenberg http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 08:10:48 2020 No.16158505 >>16157575 This is a good idea

Anonymous Tue Aug 18 11:47:39 2020 No.16159425
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>>16158505
I tried doing something like this (but I included essays and poetry) at the beginning of the year. People didn't respond to it well, saying that they'd prefer each month to be structured around a theme. I thought the relatively structureless approach would be better for the way discussions are held on this site, so I just gave up.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 11:53:36 2020 No.16159449 >>16159425 > I thought the relatively structureless approach would be better for the way discussions are held on this site Absolutely right. Deciding each at a time is, to put it simply, more fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 11:56:22 2020 No.16159472 I'm in. What are we reading??

>>	Anonymous Tue Aug 18 12:15:08 2020 No.16159574 >>16159472 Babylon Revisited - F. Scot Fitzgerald http://gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html https://b-ok.lat/book/4007763/f81e92

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