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Ask HN: Recommend a short fiction book
I realized I can rarely finish long fiction books, so I started reading only those with less than 200 pages and it's been working great for me. So far I've read:
- The old man and the sea (E. Hemingway)
- The stranger (A. Camus)
- Siddhartha (H. Hesse)
Any recommendations?
- artie_effim 6y agoShort stories by Haruki Murakami - The Elephant Vanishes Waiting for Godot (play) - Beckett Neuromancer - Gibson
- bloak 6y agoIt sounds like you need a fourth language there, perhaps something from Russian, Italian or Spanish literature. Unfortunately, everything I think of has too many pages.
- bloak 6y agoThere might be an edition of "Fathers and sons" that comes in under 200 pages. It's one of the shortest Russian novels I've read. From English literature: "Animal farm", "Three men in a boat". Try some stories by Jorge Luis Borges, perhaps, such as "El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan".
- pinewurst 6y agoThe Pat Hobby Stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- pmdulaney 6y agoA Month in the Country. A WW I vet takes a job in a small English village restoring an old mural in a church -- it has been covered with paint for 400 years. The mural itself plays a role in the story, but it's mostly about the vet meeting and getting to feel at home among the locals.