I have a small attention span so when I try reading something I think I'll like I discover, much to my chagrin, that it's 400+ pages. So does anyone know any well written short stories/novels, around 200 pages max? I do not particularly favor any genre over another, but I simply loath fantasy or anything dealing with dragons and magic.
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Poe, Lovecraft. Usually their books are short stories compilations.
E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops
http://brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu/prajlich/forster.html
Phillip K. Dick has a whole mess of short story collections out. Some of his stuff is pretty campy, though, even for sci-fi.
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick is pretty good. Some camp, some fluff, but lots of genuinely good stories, too. It helps to keep in mind that PKD wrote most of his work on amphetamines when reading him.
Hemingway is pretty much my go-to writer for short stories. I haven't found a bad Hemingway short story yet. His novels? Different story.
Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory is pretty good. Funny, quirky little novel about a child serial killer chock full of weirdness and black (well, grey and black) humor. It's something like 180 pages, so just under the maximum.
i never seen better than david copperfielf or perfume a story of a murder
The Stranger by Albert Camus
Isaac Asimov has some good short stories. His essays are rather worthwhile too.
Ray Bradbury.
Saul Bellow's 'Looking for Mr. Green' might resonate with you, particularly if you are American. His short novel Seize the Day is an absolute masterpiece.
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# The Garden of Diverging Paths by Borges
Thats one good novel u got!
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Wasp Factory and the Camus novel mentioned above are both excellent too.
Pick up Books of Blood by Clive Barker. Barker is an amazing author, and his short stories infamously focus on the macabre. Hellbound Heart, also by Barker, is very short, but very gruesome, metaphysical, and entertaining (it was the basis for Hellraiser).