As we go along litening to you and your choices, Miss Ruby, I realize how seldom over the years I've actually paid attention to short stories, especially the old classics, as distinguished from novels. Stephen Crane? I immediately almost thrilled with memories of how much I'd been engrossed in _The Red Badge of Courage_ and had received my first impressions of what real war must be like, the guts, grime, and horror of it. I never even thought of Crane as a short story writer. Now I know and have "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" on my "to read" list. Thanks.
This story ever-so-slightly reminds me of Moby Dick in the way it ambles along until suddenly the small boat engages with the shore (or, in Moby Dick, the whalers engage with the whale), then the action goes into overdrive, the imagery as well. Great reading. I am going to re-listen to this one.
I plan on listening tomorrow during a long drive...I remember being told that the first line of "the open boat" was the most famous opening line ever - "none of them knew that color of the sky"
As we go along litening to you and your choices, Miss Ruby, I realize how seldom over the years I've actually paid attention to short stories, especially the old classics, as distinguished from novels. Stephen Crane? I immediately almost thrilled with memories of how much I'd been engrossed in _The Red Badge of Courage_ and had received my first impressions of what real war must be like, the guts, grime, and horror of it. I never even thought of Crane as a short story writer. Now I know and have "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" on my "to read" list. Thanks.
Oh yes, another good one.
This story ever-so-slightly reminds me of Moby Dick in the way it ambles along until suddenly the small boat engages with the shore (or, in Moby Dick, the whalers engage with the whale), then the action goes into overdrive, the imagery as well. Great reading. I am going to re-listen to this one.
Yes, and more details will emerge the second time around. Enjoy!
So true. On my 10th+ time listening to A Confederacy of Dunces I still pick up new gems (as well as old gems I imagine I have forgotten).
Fantastic reading. Listened on a calm, beautiful day under oak trees, comfortably swaying in a hammock as though on waves.
Capital!
I plan on listening tomorrow during a long drive...I remember being told that the first line of "the open boat" was the most famous opening line ever - "none of them knew that color of the sky"
It is certainly one I will remember.