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Yeah... pretty nerdy. Anyhow we have a thread for "book" suggestions. Here is one specifically for short stories.

I just read "Girl With Curious Hair," part of a compilation of short stories by David Foster Wallace (yes, the same author whose book I suggested in the other thread.) I\'m feeling terribly unsettled after reading it; this is probably a good sign. Punkrockers, LSD, a pyromaniacal young Republican, a Keith Jarrett concert, etc... yikes.
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I always LOVED stephen Kings book called "night shift" It\'s a collection of some 40 short horror stories. That and my complete works of edgar allen poe are the best I\'ve read in a while.

I plan on getting a collection of jack londons work soon, I remember really liking his short stories as a kid.
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I always LOVED stephen Kings book called "night shift" It\'s a collection of some 40 short horror stories. That and my complete works of edgar allen poe are the best I\'ve read in a while.

I plan on getting a collection of jack londons work soon, I remember really liking his short stories as a kid.

Night Shift is awesome. So many great stories.
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Check out Jack London\'s essay "The Yellow Peril."

:rolleyes:

(Yeah, I loved Call of the Wild too.)
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"Voodoo Heart" by Scott Snyder is wonderful. its a book of 6 or 7 short stories that really moved me. I know Jim Cobb has read them also as we both know the author.

I also always loved "Jacob\'s Hands" by Aldous Huxley and Chris Isherwood

and of course, "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury is legendary
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I don\'t read anywhere near enough short stories, but i do have a book of asimov\'s short stories and a compilation claiming to be "100 best sci-fi shorts"
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Ray Bradbury "The illustrated man"  

My favorite collection of shorts
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