Comments on: You Should Read These Short Stories

By: John Dekker

John Dekker — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:58:27 +0000

Go here and help him out.

John Dekker — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:56:58 +0000

Dr. Platypus does this with Scripture.

RodeoClown — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:39:00 +0000

It’s a great exercise in conciseness

John Dekker — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:34:08 +0000

You get good at this quickly.

RodeoClown — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:29:50 +0000

Should, or shouldn’t we count contractions?

John Dekker — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:25:40 +0000

I guess I should have said:

They’re not as good as Hemingway’s.

RodeoClown — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:10:48 +0000

I liked the comments in the slashdot article. There were a lot of very witty responses there.

I liked the temporal loop one best I think I liked the temporal loop one best I think I…

sorry.

John Dekker — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 23:52:59 +0000

I like them. I think Hemingway’s is still the best, though. Of the new ones, Bruce Sterling’s would be my favourite.