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  <title><![CDATA[Sudden Fiction (Continued): 60 New Short-Short Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>Collected from nearly two hundred international magazines, a   group of short stories covers a wide range of themes and includes the   works of such well-known writers as William Maxwell, Margaret Atwood,   and Don DeLillo. </default_description>
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  <original_publication_month type="integer">6</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 14 16:41:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot of mediocre writing, but some pieces really shone, including:<br/>Denis Johnson's &quot;Out on Bail&quot;<br/>Molly Giles's &quot;The Writers' Model&quot;<br/>Margaret Broucek's &quot;Alvin Jones's Ignorant Wife&quot;<br/>Charles Baxter's &quot;Scheherazade&quot;<br/>Kenneth Bernard's &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77684699">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Oct 16 13:40:51 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great stories, alternating with not so great stories.  But opens your mind to other ways of telling a story.  Also, good to have in the car when you are waiting for the kids.  Gives you something interesting to think about!]]></body>
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    <review id="68104161">
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 19 17:42:16 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[These are rather '90s in their devotion to &quot;1. surreal thing. 2. quiet vague longing&quot; but I'm sucker for shorts so I loved even the unsatisfying ones.]]></body>
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    <review id="7081967">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Oct 19 07:44:21 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my bathroom reader right now. For anyone who knows me well, I am already on page 98. :-) <br/><br/>I've finally finish this delightful book. Short stories are great to read when you are craving a conclusion. <br/><br/>I really enjoyed the following stories:<br/>The Writer's Model, by Mo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7081967">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="74144131">
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Oct 11 00:51:50 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Oct 24 18:17:29 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A mixed bag of lollies that attempts to appeal to all readers. Overall, an entertaining read.]]></body>
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    <review id="8066121">
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  <date_added>Mon Oct 22 07:22:51 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Oct 22 07:25:04 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this about 10 years ago. And never quite got over this genre. Perhaps it says something about my limited attention span or soemthing, but i found most of these stories outstanding- I loved how so much was said in so few words. Of course, this was also the time when I couldnt get over the Imag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8066121">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Nov 12 07:16:45 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wasn't too excited by this book's prequel, Sudden Fiction, and was pleasantly surprised with the anthology, New Sudden Fiction, and for me this one rates somewhere in between, but closer to the former. There were several stories that excited, or evoked something in this reader, but far too many di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36553545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23706959">
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 04 13:56:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up after reading its predecessor, Sudden Fiction International (which I loved).  Right from the beginning, the stories in SFC didn't grab me as much, but it is still an okay collection of short fiction.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For my Creative Writing Class in college - like many collections, half are forgettable, half are decent, and of those, a handful are fantastic. Regardless, it's nice to have on the shelf.]]></body>
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    <review id="11412343">
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  <read_at>Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of later selections become tiresome, and eventually the already known names became the only ones reading, but those are the usual odds with a collection like this.<br/>]]></body>
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    <review id="22818656">
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  <date_added>Fri May 23 10:38:15 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a few gems in the rubble, but this doesn't even come close to meeting the standard of the old international edition...]]></body>
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    <review id="19019728">
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 14:58:42 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 30 14:59:06 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A good study in the economy of words.  And a great read.]]></body>
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    <review id="9245932">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the book. I liked it. ]]></body>
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