tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post5549368412715202606..comments2024-01-05T19:38:36.676-06:00Comments on LIVERPUTTY: My Favorite Short StoriesWagstaffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09197425222788144402noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-586185274721163582008-05-13T13:24:00.000-05:002008-05-13T13:24:00.000-05:00So good to read comments from those who appreciate...So good to read comments from those who appreciate the art of the short story. A great site for a wonderful art-form. - thanks. AlisonUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16664900429236113578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-55168130976624354532007-09-20T11:27:00.000-05:002007-09-20T11:27:00.000-05:00It's bad luck to end with 13 comments.It's bad luck to end with 13 comments.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-5740010956850513472007-09-19T17:46:00.000-05:002007-09-19T17:46:00.000-05:00Jeff: I never read "The Most Dangerous Game" in sc...Jeff: I never read "The Most Dangerous Game" in school and it flew under my radar (no great feat). But I did take the time to read it online last night and found it thoroughly enjoyable. Of course, I recognized several stories that were evidentally inspired by it and it was amazing how it moved like a film and was written in 1924. Thanks for the suggestion.<BR/><BR/>For some reason, that storyJeffrey Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923435451049982632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-58256366996459169812007-09-19T12:14:00.000-05:002007-09-19T12:14:00.000-05:00very nice article blot. always refershing to have ...very nice article blot. always refershing to have you around. three cheers and such.<BR/><BR/>I had Mark Twain fever for a while, that's when I started wearing overalls a lot. however I am not familiar with the story you mention, will have to find that one.<BR/><BR/>on the flight out to california I read a couple chapters of Camille Paglia's Sexual Personae 1990. She had two chapers on Oscar Shelby Buttonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17773151513271863888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-14121617730761178502007-09-19T03:59:00.000-05:002007-09-19T03:59:00.000-05:00I just remembered an American author I find, or ra...I just remembered an American author I find, or rather found, very funny.<BR/><BR/>Garrison Keillor, in his early days before the world piddled in his cornflakes, was a very very funny writer. Look around in used bookstores for his collection, "Happy to Be Here", published in 1981. These are wonderful, well-constructed, ironic stories, which make you wonder what the hell has happened to him EscutcheonBlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00192576198740786305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-51388551052800416812007-09-18T18:53:00.000-05:002007-09-18T18:53:00.000-05:00From the first time I read it in high school, "The...From the first time I read it in high school, "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell has been my favorite. As good as the hunt itself is the dialogue which precedes it, between the General and Rainsford, the famous hunter:<BR/><BR/>"How extraordinarily droll you are!" he said. "One does not expect nowadays to find a young man of the educated class,<BR/>even in America, with such a naive, Jeff Vacahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14453383642378380406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-40269463483036746632007-09-18T14:28:00.000-05:002007-09-18T14:28:00.000-05:00Odie,It's true that humour is a product of its tim...Odie,<BR/><BR/>It's true that humour is a product of its time, but I love Jane Austen and find her hilarious. I often laugh when reading Dickens, or (rather less often) Thackery. These are more or less contemporaries of the folks on your side of the Atlantic (speaking spatially, rather than in the sense of loyalty). <BR/><BR/>I thought Quixote sad, and found Swift to be a mean ol' bastard. EscutcheonBlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00192576198740786305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-49285254575833998212007-09-18T13:05:00.000-05:002007-09-18T13:05:00.000-05:00EB: I also...dramatic pause...dislike the Three St...EB: <I>I also...dramatic pause...dislike the Three Stooges. (gasps from audience)</I><BR/><BR/>Those gasps didn't come from me. I hate the Three Stooges with every fiber of my being. The only thing I ever liked about them was the music. Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk.<BR/><BR/>Humor is not only subjective but also a product of its time. Don Quixote was supposed to be funny, but to me it was not. They also tell odienatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926978706604468636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-28836870454361660272007-09-18T12:02:00.000-05:002007-09-18T12:02:00.000-05:00The 3 Stooges are too violent! I've never been ab...The 3 Stooges are too violent! I've never been able to appreciate them.<BR/><BR/>BTW - I liked your line: <I>Fitzgerald is way too precious.</I> And he became cracked crockery.Jeffrey Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923435451049982632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-30829100689683423502007-09-18T11:32:00.000-05:002007-09-18T11:32:00.000-05:00What horrible typos! I need to slow it down, I gu...What horrible typos! I need to slow it down, I guess.Jeffrey Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923435451049982632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-30606995482842226582007-09-18T11:30:00.000-05:002007-09-18T11:30:00.000-05:00Tee hee.I thought that morose comment would get a ...Tee hee.<BR/><BR/>I thought that morose comment would get a rise out of you all. An avalanche of outrage. Is two responses an avalanche? <BR/><BR/>Like I said, I don't know Melville's short short fiction at all well...did I say it? I thought it. I read all of Twain's stuff when I was a teenager, wanting to like him. I didn't. I found very little that was truly funny; most of his stuff being EscutcheonBlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00192576198740786305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-52746893365844569352007-09-18T10:47:00.000-05:002007-09-18T10:47:00.000-05:00Odie is flexing his parody muscles.The stories in ...Odie is flexing his parody muscles.<BR/><BR/>The stories in <I>The Dubliners</I> are my favorite stuff of Joyce - being not only the most accessible, but the most enjoyable.<BR/><BR/>I don't get the humorless accussation, Scutch. I find Melville is particularly hilarious - his humor is pitch perfect. I also find a lot of humor in Washington Irving. "Rip Van Winkle" in particular, but in other Jeffrey Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923435451049982632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-19404969510052350862007-09-18T09:35:00.000-05:002007-09-18T09:35:00.000-05:00Americans are a pretty morose bunch, when they wri...<I>Americans are a pretty morose bunch, when they write. Why is that? Come to think of it, American films, comedies anyway, are rarely intentionally funny.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm funny, dammit! <BR/><BR/>Good list. I like several of the stories listed. I've also always liked James Joyce's Araby, Langston Hughes' Thank You, Ma'm, and Steinbeck's Jalopies I Cursed and Loved (and I hate John Steinbeck theodienatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10926978706604468636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-62160659744413271552007-09-18T02:33:00.000-05:002007-09-18T02:33:00.000-05:00I hate Hemingway.I don't wish to sound as if I am ...I hate Hemingway.<BR/><BR/>I don't wish to sound as if I am trying to curry popular favour. I just hate the guy's writing. I have swallowed 4 or 5 of his novels, and I just can't appreciate him. He's easy to read, but somehow that excessively brutal English of his leaves me wanting more. A lot more. <BR/><BR/>I've already said I much prefer Steinbeck, of all those Lost Generation writers. EscutcheonBlothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00192576198740786305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6907198.post-1491925149825622292007-09-17T18:36:00.000-05:002007-09-17T18:36:00.000-05:00Why no Hemingway? As a fellow expat, does he not ...Why no Hemingway? As a fellow expat, does he not resonate with you? I’ve always been fond of him, though I think he is over-rated. It particularly enjoyed “After the Storm” and, in a different way, “Cat in the Rain”.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise, good fodder here, Scutch. Of the stuff you mentioned that I’ve read, can’t take issue with any of it. I’d add a little more Hawthorne to the list – maybe “Jeffrey Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923435451049982632noreply@blogger.com