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Summary: Excellent - but what happens to the authors names???
Review: I'm currently listening to this series of short stories on CD and thus far they are excellent. The problem is, the titles of the stories are given very quickly and the narrators don't tell the names of the authors. There is no listing of the stories on the cover or on the CD or on the inside jacket. I would love to know the name of each author as the story starts. Would have have been so difficult?
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Summary: Excellent assortment...
Review: This is a truly marvelous collection of short stories on audiocassette. The choice of stories excellent on its own, but when you consider the readers (some of whom are the authors themselves) it's even better!My favorite stories here include "The Lottery" - just as chilling as I remember it, even though I know how it will come out; "Owl Creek Bridge," which is wonderfully read by McCallum; "The Diamond Necklace," which is one of the nastiest tricks played on a story's main character that I've ever read; and "Tobermory," just because it's Saki and cats. [If they'd chosen "Shredni Vashtar" instead as the representative Saki tale I'd have had to figure out how to give the collection 6 stars!] I enjoyed listening to all of the stories, many of which were unfamiliar to me; Welty's reading of her own story is a hilarious, breathless take on a small-town family, Lotte Lenya's reading of Kafka is relentlessly chilling, Kiley's reading of Thurber is dry and funny - heck, they're all good. The only slight quibble I'd make is that there's very little space in between stories; they pretty much lead right in to one another. This means that if you want to pause to contemplate the story you've just heard, you should stop the tape the instant it's over, or else you'll be caught up in the next tale instead.
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