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/lit/, please tell me that one of you guys still has a link to the file with all these short stories. That would really make my night, thanks.

>> No.2031877

Give me a few minutes to upload it.

>> No.2031905

Hope it works: http://www.mediafire.com/?qtzyu7wb34qlajz

I only read Pynchon's "Entropy" and O'Brien's "The Things They Carried", but I'd recommend both.

>> No.2031910

>>2031905

Thanks broski, really appreciate it.

>> No.2031915

>>2031905
The Things They Carried is great.

>> No.2031916

>>2031905
"The Things They Carried" is really good. I think i may have my copy lying around here

>> No.2031951

>The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft

My father read that to me on Hallowe'en when I was like seven or eight. To this day it's still my favorite Lovecraft story--whoever put this list together has damn good taste.

>> No.2031958

>I have no mouth and i must scream
>The continuity of parks
>The library of Babel
Fucking nice taste.

>> No.2031962

Someone really needs to make an EPUB or MOBI version of this list.

>> No.2031964

>>2031905

thank you, I want to read all of this before my fall reading list starts!!

>> No.2031970

>>2031916
Seconding 'The Things They Carried' - one of the most unusual, heartbreaking books I've ever read.

>> No.2031971

Posting.

>> No.2032107

>>2031971
Already read.
Re-postin.
Also severe lack of The Last Question in this roulette.

>> No.2032126

rawlin

>> No.2032521

rollin

>> No.2032522

roll

>> No.2032524

>>2032107
By necessity, some sense of my personal tastes leaked into this when I put it together. I don't like Asimov. Never have. And "The Last Question" is a story that particularly annoys me.

From the very first time I posted one of these, when /lit/ was in its infancy, I have always been consistent in saying this: Please feel free to do your own versions and improve on the idea.

I claim no ownership of this thing (else why would I be anonymous) and it always gives me a thrill when I see a short story roulette thread get going without me.

>> No.2032540

>>2032524
Quick follow-up. I have plans to do one more version in which I will add "Tarzan Meets the Department Head," by Price Caldwell, "Bloodthirsty Man," by Benjamin Weissman, "Tower of Babylon," by Ted Chiang, as well as replace the current William F. Wu story with the one I've REALLY always wanted, "House of Cool Air." I finally have all of those stories typed, formatted, and saved on my hard drive.

I also have a note somewhere with ten or eleven stories that people suggested during the last thread. One of them was a Fitzgerald story that I kind of dismissed at the time, but since then it's been haunting me. I haven't done a good job of reading the other stories yet and deciding what else to add and what to cut, though.

It will be a few weeks before I post my new (and likely last) version.

After that it really will be up to somebody else.

>> No.2032570

be rollan

>> No.2032595

Thanks to however compiled this.

Is anyone planning on expanding the collection?

Be sure to make a thread if you do.

>> No.2032603

That list is very focused on American literature

>> No.2032609

>>2032603
And?

>> No.2032611

>>2032609

Well there is a whole wealth of fantastic short stories so it is likely the majority of them are not American.

>> No.2032617

>>2032611
And? Did I miss the part where this list claimed to represent all literature? It's skewed to the tastes of the guy who made it. You're free to make your own?

>> No.2032625

>>2032617
I was just saying if there was ever going to be an alteration to the list which was being discussed in this thread, i feel more non-American authors should be included

>> No.2032628

>>2032625
Suggest some

>> No.2032629

>>2032625
Ah. Okay. We ain't mind-readers. It might be more helpful if you made specific suggestions of great short stories and linked to the location of their text online, though.

You might not realize what an absolute bugfuck of hard work this took to put together.

>> No.2032634

>>2032629

Off the top of my head Rain by Somerset Maugham
http://maugham.classicauthors.net/Rain/

>> No.2032638

Dandelion Girl is a nice short story.

>> No.2032863

I'm planning to make a Japanese literature short story roulette like this. Anyone have any thoughts on that?

>> No.2033765

>>2032863
I wish you the best. I'd like to read some Japanese short stories... so I guess my thought is, I look forward to it.

>> No.2033781

“The Balloon” by Donald Barthelme

www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Reading
s/139.105/Additional/The%20Balloon%20-%20Donald%20Barthelme.pdf

>> No.2033783

rollin'

>> No.2033785

>>2033781
That's a great story.

>> No.2033789

Furthermore, I'm sure someone could suggest something by Primo Levi.

Is "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Bierce worth a mention? I haven't read it in forever.
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/375

>> No.2033792

rolling

>> No.2033803

So are we making another roulette? I think that's a great idea. Her's some stories:

A&P - John Updike

http://www.tiger-town.com/whatnot/updike/

Backbone - DFW

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/03/07/110307fi_fiction_wallace?currentPage=all

Edgemont Drive - E. L. Doctorow

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/04/26/100426fi_fiction_doctorow

The Destructors - Graham Greene

http://www.sangam.org/articles/view/?id=183

>> No.2033817

>>2033803

The Rocking Horse Winner - D. H. Lawrence

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/rockwinr.html

The Fly - Katherine Mansfield

http://www.inlex.org/stories/mansfield/thefly.html

The Use of Force - William Carlos Williams

http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/force.html

>> No.2033820

>>2033817
>>2033803
>>2033789
>>2033781
>>2032634

That's 10 stories. Only 90 to go.

>> No.2033826

A bunch of stories here

http://www.classicshorts.com/author.html

>> No.2033827

>>2033820
Another possibility would be to use the original roulette that's already been done but replace stories where an author has more than one story on the list.

>> No.2033829

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/77dec/pancake.htm

breece d'j pancake - trilobites

>> No.2033833

>>2033827

I think it's about time we had a new one, personally. We could take out the doubles from the existing one, and put them in the new one, and then fill the gaps in the old roulette with new stories. Then we have two roulettes, each with 100 authors and stories.

>> No.2033850

Hemingway's Indian Camp
www.nbu.bg/webs/amb/american/4/hemingway/camp.htm

Voltaire's Story of a Good Brahmin
alameda.peralta.edu/Projects/20430/Intro%20to%20Philosophy/Good%20Brahmin.htm

>> No.2033856

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Washington_Irving/The_Legend_of_Sleepy_Hollow/The_Legend_Of_Sleepy_Ho
llow_p1.html

http://www.all-story.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=100

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2736/

http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

http://salvoblue.homestead.com/wings.html

http://azulejo.atspace.com/elsur.html

http://www.literaturecollection.com/a/wilde/330

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Neck.shtml

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides4/OHenry.html

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2011/03/14/110314fi_fiction_coover

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/01/25/100125fi_fiction_wilson?currentPage=all

>> No.2033857

>>2033783
sandkings was amazing

>> No.2033861

Continuing with random thought:

Something from Decameron? Canterbury tales? Dante? Petrach? A Modest Proposal? Montaigne? Stuart Mill?

>> No.2033862

Someone recommend a good Philip K. Dick story.

>> No.2033867

You should change the colour of the roulette pic for the new one to differentiate between the different versions. I'd like to see a pink background next :3

>> No.2034427

bump

>> No.2035773

Rollin

>> No.2035780

Here's 100 new stories for the roulette.

http://www.mediafire.com/?948jqftw6iu3fi2

>> No.2035795

>>2031905
>>2031877
thanks, its appreaciated.


i would love to see a file full of bukowskis short stuff.

>> No.2035807

>>2035795

I've got some of his short story collections if you want.

>> No.2035820

>>2035807

http://www.mediafire.com/?9xb83wlhgihyyyz

South of No North is the best collection, but there's a few more, and some of his poetry too.

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rollin

>> No.2035856

83 get

>> No.2035857

rollin

>> No.2035865
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Can someone help me, please?

I've spent all day sorting out a new roulette for us. I have 100 stories by 100 authors now, and I have pics of the authors all resized correctly. Thing is, I have no skills with paint or photoshop or anything. I really haven't a clue. Help a bro out?

All I need is for someone to take the pics and the stories and make a jpg for it. It's all in this folder:

http://www.mediafire.com/?y9bjb92m210a29l

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>>2035865
Are you
>>2035780
?

>> No.2035888

>>2035884

Yeah, except the last link I posted didn't have the author pics in it.

>> No.2035889

rollin

>> No.2035910

>>2035888
I'm trying something to combine the images...
If I'm not done in one hour then I gave up

>> No.2035914

>>2035865
SAUZE

>> No.2035926

>>2035914
lol dunno, mate

>> No.2036007

rollan dudes

>> No.2036010

Joyce get

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>>2035865
Well it was longer than expected.

>> No.2036193

roll

>> No.2036198

>>2036179

That looks awesome, anon. I thought you'd left me haha I managed to knock up my own in the end, but I'll put yours in the zip file next time I post it. It looks awesome.

Imma sage this thread though because he new one's on the front page too :P you should go and roll on the new roulette now!