Discussion thread.
I would consider the coverage of the group to also include essays, short plays, excerpts, and novelettes, but it's up for discussion.
Topics to discuss:
- What collection to use, if any
- Pacing
- Start date
- Discord?
/ssrg/ or /ssbc/ book club or /ssrc/ reading club?
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Smart user recommended The World's Greatest Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) 256 pages amazon.com
$5. It contains:
Bartleby the Scrivener (1853, Melville)
The Necklace (1884, de Maupassant)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886, Tolstoy)
The Man Who Would Be King (1888, Kipling)
The Yellow Wallpaper (1892, C.P. Gilman)
The Fortune-Teller (1896, Machado de Assis)
The Lady with the Toy Dog (1899, Chekhov)
How Old Timofei Died with a Song (1900, Rilke)
The Path to the Cemetery (1901, Mann)
The Prussian Officer (1914, D.H. Lawrence)
Araby (1914, Joyce)
Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law (1917, Pirandello)
The Mark on the Wall (1921, Woolf)
A Hunger Artist (1922, Kafka)
The Garden-Party (1922, Mansfield)
The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket (1924, Kawabata)
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (1926, Hemingway)
The Sacrifical Egg (1959, Achebe)
A & P (1961, Updike)
Borges and I (1962, Borges)
There is also 100 Great Short Stories for $6 768 pages amazon.com
I am leaning towards the 100 Great one because it's almost 3 times and not much more expensive.
Also of consideration would be other Short Story collections, or a Norton Anthology. Old editions are fairly cheap.
Going by a collection is probably a good idea, we don't have to quarrel about what to read next, and might stumble upon some authors that aren't so well-known on Veeky Forums.
I think 2 stories per week would be nice. Really hope this thing actually gets going.
Definately this, it takes away constant debate about the selection process, its a solid list and it begins with Bartleby which should always be counted on the handful of short stories ever written
I would do 2 short stories a week. There were some worries about parallel discussions, but we can just make a new thread.
Borges and I for instance is literally half a page long, idk how you guys want to spend a whole week discussing it.
When do we start?
I hope my copy arrives on time.
Perhaps we could have one story on wednesday and one on saturday, or something like that. I don't think we have to have a thread going at all times though, if we're done discussing.
Having 2 stories per week would kill it quickly lads. It seems like a good idea because it's a new and exciting thing, but as time passes you'll just lose interest and not want to follow with it anymore
So which book? World's Greatest Short Stories or 100 Great Short Stories?
Anyone? bump.