Connected Short Stories
can anybody name any books that are essentially a bunch of short stories like [I]Trainspotting[/I] and [I]Jesus' Son [/I]but feature the same characters.
also, another good example is [I]The Informers[/I].
Nine Stories by Salinger?
[I]The Nick Adams Stories[/I], by Hemingway.
Not sure they really fit into this category, though, as they were originally published separately and only compiled as a book later, in the early 70s.
you people disappoint me.
Harry Potter, lol!
...lol?
no lol.
... I lol'd
[QUOTE=Mricpx;1014605]... I lol'd[/QUOTE]
So did I.
And I'll do it again. lol.
[URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayuela]"Hopscotch" by Julio cortazar[/URL]. you can even let chapters out of the reading. there´s jazz, and bohemian madness in that book. (One of my favourite books of all times, you can read it every 2 years and you always discover new stuff)
Dude, two against one is totally FTW.
(Lol x 2)
[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1015762]Dude, two against one is totally FTW.
(Lol x 2)[/QUOTE]
How you dare to call the order of the phoenix "short" story!?!?!?! no lol from here. so.. . lol counts are even now
Junot Diaz's [i]Drown[/i]
Chuck Palahniuk's [i]Haunted[/i]
[i]Canterbury Tales[/i] by Chaucer
[i]The Decameron[/i] by Giovanni Boccaccio
Joyce's [i]Dubliners[/i] consisted of characters all in the same city
[i]The Holy Bible[/i], by various authors even
[i]Everybody Pays[/i] by Vachss is a questionable one, but some of the characters are the same and i thought of it as more of a novel than a collection
Tim O'Brien's works, particularly [i]If I Die in a Combat Zone[/i] and one of the best in my personal collection of shorts comprised novels, [i]The Things They Carried[/i]
Thom Jones' [i]Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine[/i] and [i]Cold Snap[/i]
That's all from the top of the cranium as most of my books are either stacked or boxed up for the move in the next week. there are so many out there that it's crazy. i thought of doing it myself, but feel it has been too done for me to get away with it for a first publication.
good luck in your search
-kabol
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
I read a book a couple of years ago called "Junk" but can't remember who it's by, I think it fits the criteria and I really enjoyed it when I read it.
Last exit to Brooklyn by hubert selby jr- It was pretty depressing in 1950s brooklyn.
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Karl Marx
Craig Davidson does a pinch of that (I think two or three of the stories feature the same characters with different narrative POV) in "Rust and Bone." But it's not done throughout the entire book.
I usually dig the shared world effect, although some times it goes too far over the top (e.g. Kings Dark Tower series).