
The Short Stories, Volume I
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Narrated by:
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Stacy Keach
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By:
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Ernest Hemingway
The Short Stories, Volume 1 features Stacy Keach reading favorites including:
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Great reader - sounds like a Hemingway guy
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Detailed
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Beautiful stories and excellent narration
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Kill the music
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Brilliant book by brilliant author.What didn’t you like about Stacy Keach’s performance?
Stacy Keach fades on many sentences, thus making it impossible to hear. This is particularly noticed in an automobile environment. The quiet passages are impossible to hear. This dynamic range is appropriate for the stage but NOT for reading a book. Narrow the dynamic range, Stacy, we are listening to Hemingway not you!Stacy Keach fades on sentences
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Superb
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These short stories are *awesome* and really demonstrate why he came to prominence in the first place.
In this format, Hemingway's weaknesses as a writer aren't as glaring (i.e. his well known inability to write female characters or avoid complex emotions). The format almost forces him to move things along which helps the story telling tremendously.
Beware: If you like things tied up into neat packages at the end, this collection isn't for you. These short stories will hit a crescendo and just end leaving plot line open and the reader dangling. And that's what I like so much about it. You the reader are left to ponder and fill in the details on your own. These stories could be used as prompts in creative writing classes.
One note about the audiobook: I can't believe Audible hasn't fixed this, but starting around halfway through the collection the end of each track has paragraphs from Hemingway's other short story collection "5th Column" spliced into it. You'll hear the end of the short story. Then the narrator will say "Chapter 3" and there will be a paragraph or two from a completely unrelated story. This is not your player messing up, this is an error with the compilation of the audio book.
Liking Hemingway much more as a short story author
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What did you love best about The Short Stories, Volume I?
I confess that I haven't read anything by Ernest Hemingway since I was forced to do so in high school. My teachers TOLD me what a phenomenal writer he was, but my teenaged self failed to appreciate it. So, fast forward a few years and imagine my utter delight and surprise. His writing is clean, precise, succinct; his stories are still relevant and entertaining. I am now a huge fan and am gobbling up everything I can!What did you like best about this story?
Stacy Keach was the perfect choice to narrate this collection. HIs voice was expressive, gritty and hard when required, soft and passionate.A great introduction!
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Good narratives but with an incoherent structure
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well worth reading deeply. an example to others
stands with checkov and tergenev
Hemingway
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