Tonight, we finish up with Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Tell us what you think of The Beggar and the Diamond and Brooklyn August. Also what did you think of Nightmares and Dreamscapes compared to SKs other anthologies. Have a favorite story?
I love the parable The Beggar and the Diamond. My take on this parable is that we all have our roles to play and nothing can change that.
I think all of Steve's short story collections are excellent. As far as this book goes, I would probably rank it in the middle of the pack with the other collections. There's lots of great stuff in this book but it also has a clunker or two more than the others. It's kind of weird that Steve said he was struggling with the short story around when this book was published but it's his biggest collection. I think I only counted two stories from the 90s (it was published in 92) so he must have been talking about the early 90s. I think Home Delivery might be my favorite.
I think going forward, we will go with random stories from the collections. I figured we could take turns picking the story. One idea that I have is to add a couple of authors to the mix. It would have to be authors that we all have the books of. So I was thinking along with picking random stories from Steve, we could occasionally throw in Poe (I think we all have access to those stories) and Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts and maybe Bradbury. The tricky part with Bradbury is that he has so many collections, finding one we all have might be challenging. (The October Country is pretty common). Let me know what you think.
I love the parable The Beggar and the Diamond. My take on this parable is that we all have our roles to play and nothing can change that.
I think all of Steve's short story collections are excellent. As far as this book goes, I would probably rank it in the middle of the pack with the other collections. There's lots of great stuff in this book but it also has a clunker or two more than the others. It's kind of weird that Steve said he was struggling with the short story around when this book was published but it's his biggest collection. I think I only counted two stories from the 90s (it was published in 92) so he must have been talking about the early 90s. I think Home Delivery might be my favorite.
I think going forward, we will go with random stories from the collections. I figured we could take turns picking the story. One idea that I have is to add a couple of authors to the mix. It would have to be authors that we all have the books of. So I was thinking along with picking random stories from Steve, we could occasionally throw in Poe (I think we all have access to those stories) and Joe Hill's 20th Century Ghosts and maybe Bradbury. The tricky part with Bradbury is that he has so many collections, finding one we all have might be challenging. (The October Country is pretty common). Let me know what you think.