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    <body><![CDATA[Short stories are trick. It is hard to get the character and settings right since there is a limited number of pages to draw the reader in and make them care about the characters and their situations. When short story collections are done well they can be memorable parables or anecdotal hors d'oeuvr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71966325">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The big duh: Raymond Carver is one of the masters of the contemporary short story. The really great thing about Carver is that his stories are so <em>easy</em> -- you can blaze through them like a pop novel without missing a beat, and yet come out on the other end knowing you've read something tremendous. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54518742">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the movie...it's one of my all-time favorites. It was interesting to read the short stories behind the scrpit, but for once I actually felt the movie outdid the book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was depressing to me.  As the first Raymond Carver read I'm not sure how it compares with his other stories but I would finish each story slightly depressed.  I almost gave it a three star. <br/><br/>However, I had to push it to four for two reasons.  First, the short story included, &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55282999">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Makes short story writing seem simple ... too simple.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This has been sitting on my DVD shelf for a few years now as the Criterion companion to the movie.  While I really enjoy the movie, I think I ended up buying it just because there was a book included in the packaging.  And thank goodness...Carver might have continued to go undetected by me as--for t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38458866">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed reading this collection--finished it in about 3 days, which is rare for me lately. <br/><br/>When I read, &quot;A Small, Good Thing,&quot; I almost cried I was so moved. However, that was the only story amongst those featured in this volume that really wowed me. The rest were ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28703950">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[At my birthday party, I mentioned to someone that I had recently read these stories, and two other people, seperate from each other and from me, started raving about how good Carver is.  It's true.  <br/><br/>All I want to do after reading this guy's stories is drink and beat my wife.  Except beau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8959157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read Short Cuts after reading What We Talk About... and it's simply nowhere near as strong a collection, which seems fitting as it was compiled by Robert Altman and not Carver himself. About the highlights that don't completely overlap: &quot;A Small Good Thing&quot; is one of the highlights here,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1805100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this book of short stories, Carver writes about everyday people and manages to make the mundane dramatic which may be the reason Robert Altman chose to adapt it to film. Carver was a master at directness and concise dialog. He didn’t clutter his prose with distracting descriptions. His stories ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64604321">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[it's really hard to read more than one of these stories each day, he's just that intense. &quot;will you please be quiet, please?&quot; is probably my favorite short story of all time. also, i learned that this book is a compilation of stories put together by director robert altman, who made a movie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44015682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So there are some stories in this collection that are altered versions of stories from <em> What We Talk about When We Talk About Love</em>.  I was having difficulty with the chronology, though I believe <em> What We Talk About </em> (pub'd in 19981) came first.  <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.whitman.edu/english/carver/chronology.html"> He also apparently rewrote </a> some of the stories in <em> S...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35650331">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Incredible short stories that capture so many moods,feelings, vulnerability and human weakness. &quot;A Small Good Thing,&quot; is a gem.  I love how the baker provides the smallest comfort with his hot rolls.  &quot;Eating is a small, good thing in a time like this,&quot; said the baker.  Carver re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79702534">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I absolutely Raymond Carver. His stories are deceptively easy to read; they are always surprising and make me think. This particular set of his stories is interesting--I think I maybe need to read the film by Robert Altman to understand the connections that he's going for here. My favorites are &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63507627">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I feel dumb rating a book that inspired a film with as many amazing actors as this one had so low.  My lack of a developed critical sense probably made me hate these stories, but due to personal failings or no, hate them  I did.  They made me feel very, very hopeless, with no prospect of uplift.  I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64700314">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like a punch in the gut. I'm a big fan of short stories, in general, and this was an unflinching look at relationships. Everything feels real and genuine. The stories are fucked-up, but in a realistic way. No sensationalism or exaggeration here.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These short stories were compiled into a book and made into a 1993 Movie by Robert Altman  - they are dark, but good.  The characters find out the things they didn't know about people, maybe didn't want to]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Carver's short stories are interesting and realistic. Some of the events are easy to relate to, they depict personal relationship problems and choices that sound familiar. The one story about the fishermen who find a dead body but continue their fishing trip because they are 1)die-hard fishing buddi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12115816">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If each and every story in this collection were perfect, I would give it five stars.  Some are; some aren't, but I will re-read each and every one of them again and find every story Raymond Carver has ever written.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doesn't get better than Carver for short stories. The immediacy and urgency in his writing is wonderful, you are 'in the room' with his characters. ]]></body>
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