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Just joking about the tubes there, FF. Was envisioning Dr Jekyll with his test tubes. JazzO, Faldage likes to say his crowning glory would be to play the title role in "Waiting for Godot"
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Ah .... a little too quick for me before the IV.
Note to Self: Watch for falling puns.
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Conrads 'Heart of Darkness' is a short classic, for those who did not know it is where the story for Apocalypse Now ( my fave) came.
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The novella "The Fox" by D.H. Lawrence. I don't think this was published as a seperate volume. I have only seen it in anthologies and the like. One of my favorites by D.H.
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JazzO, Faldage likes to say his crowning glory would be to play the title role in "Waiting for Godot" Yeahbut, a read some analyses of the book after I read it and Beckett apparently said that Godot really comes from a French word for some type of boot worn in the military. (Or is Faldage implying that he wants to be a boot?)
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Thin Books
Two of the three books that most influenced my mindset were thin. One was Lonely Man, Lonely God. The other thin book was The Pleasure- Pain Principal. The fat book was entitled The Open and Closed Mind.
Strange- I don’t remember who wrote any of them. No matter, you wouldn’t want to grow up to be me, would you?
One thin book I would highly recommend would be The Fall of Rome by R.A. Lafferty. Gibbon was good but Rome never fell until it was written so by Lafferty.
One thin novel that is worth reading but much neglected by those who admire Hemingway is Across the River and into the Trees In this little book Little Ernie Hemingway is at his best- for a while- but like many a ner-do-well salesman, he fails to close.
It seems that the american novel reading public doesn’t cotton to skinny books much. Remember Jonathan Livingston Seagull of the seventies, the best selling book that everybody read and no one knew why? Maybe that book ruined the chances for a future market.
I think the others on this thread are right. Read the best short stories. I'll tell what stories I think best on a post in a minute.
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OMERTA by Mario Puzo sounds like it should be a SHORT book but it is not. It is very entertaining, however. Example: "You can't send six billionaires to jail. Not in a democracy." Stuff like this makes it SEEM short. Does that qualify?
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For two good THIN books of excellent short stories, try "Harmony of the World" and "Through the Safety Net", both by Charles Baxter[Michigan writer, of course].
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