The best American Fiction Anthologies books: Reddit reviews

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The complete works of H P Lovecraft is available as one hardback book on Amazon with a nice sturdy case, thin bible-style pages and a page ribbon. It's a great buy.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015

This review speaks for itself:

"I originally read most of these stories a quarter of a century ago, but it was good to find them all in one volume. Let's face it, Lovecraft needs to be read from a heavy tome, preferably by guttering candlelight, as you strain to hear the strange slithering sound just outside your chamber door, and not on a tablet on the 8.52 to Nottingham. All the classic Lovecraft tales are here, and the book is beautifully bound and printed. The print is a good readable size, and each tale has a brief introduction detailing when it was written and any interesting references. You soon realise how hugely influential old H.P was, sci-fi, fantasy and horror have all learned from him, writers like Stephen King and James Herbert obviously so, but others too. Terry Pratchett referenced Lovecraft too. One slight word of caution, the racial language and descriptions in some of the stories are very much of their time. When I first read them years ago I didn't notice so much, but now, even though I'm not the most PC person in the world, some of the language is fairly shocking. If you've not read Lovecraft before be aware of it, but don't let it put you off. Overall a really nice edition."

you can try:
H. P. Lovecraft: The Complete Collection Kindle Edition

On more than one occasion, Mike's brought up Layrinths. I think he even named it as a 'desert island' book.

I got mine from Amazon Germany.

Link.

Sonhos Elétricos, Philip K. Dick.

Segue uma resenha minha:

> PKD é um artista da imaginação - um profeta do futuro, como muitas pessoas já disseram. Também, foi uma alma torturada, uma alma que buscou à vida toda uma alma gêmea platônica que perdera ao nascer - sua irmã, que morreu dois meses após seu nascimento e ao lado de quem ele foi enterrado após sua morte aos 53 anos. Falo essas coisas baseado no interesse contínuo que tive sobre ele desde muito tempo, desde quando soube de sua visão mística inexplicável que ele tenta explicar em The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, que ainda quero ler. Tem uma tira do The Weirdo Years by R. Crumb: 1981-'93 sobre ela que é muito boa. Enfim, ele tentou se matar sem sucesso, ele teve cinco esposas, ele fez um terrível e assustador prospecto do futuro onde viveríamos em uma realidade simulada em computador em um discuso na França ( Metz, 1977), ele é a mente por traz de ideias incríveis e que inspirou a serie televisiva da amazon, Electric Dreams (assistam se gostam de Black Mirror mas estão cansados dos finais depressivos de quase todo episódio) e, muito embora sejam completamente diferentes do que aparece na televisão, a ideia embrionária, o germe dickiano está lá. Recomendo muito, para quem quer abrir a mente em 180°!

VALIS is excellent, funny and very much explains PKD's gnosticism. An essential read before tackling his Exegesis, a massive volume containing years of his notes.

https://www.amazon.com/Exegesis-Philip-K-Dick/dp/0547549253/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1NKZW8TOXSR9M&keywords=gnostic+phillip+k+dick&qid=1669574429&s=books&sprefix=gnostic+phillip+k+dick%2Cstripbooks%2C85&sr=1-7

Yep they’re pretty easy to find if you know how to search for them. What you’re looking for is usually called “bilingual” books or “parallel stories”. Try doing a search in Amazon with the languages and those words.

And example for Spanish, for instance, would be something like this book

Thanks, but I think Ill go with this I see and maybe just read others digitally if needed, because I have money only for one book :/

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (Knickerbocker Classics, Band 12) https://www.amazon.de/dp/1631060015/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_i_5PQMG0MQQ22BBP7ZTBPX

Falls original in Englisch okay geht, würde ich dir die Ausgabe wärmstens empfehlen.

Maybe this one? I'm sorry, I don't know, I own a different version translated into Italian, since that's my native language. You should ask on this sub to people who read the stories in English. Maybe there's something on the sub's front page.

This wouldn't show up while searching in the app for some reason, but upon websearching I've found it is indeed available on Amazon (at least in the US) and way less than I expected it to cost!

lol keep telling yourself that

https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/brian-oneill/2011/12/08/Yes-we-and-yinz-are-part-of-Appalachia/stories/201112080418

https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Appalachia-Pittsburgh-Twenty-First-Century/dp/088748509X

Love the snobby yinzers that think they are above basic geography, history, and culture of the area.

Here's my read for the weekend to get into the mood:

https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Tales-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631066463

Without H P Lovecraft, you wouldn't get Stephen King or Clive Barker or Neil Gaiman or Guillermo Del Toro. The man influenced generations of horror storytellers with his visions of macabre, cosmic terror. Why, I'd probably end up writing romance novels if I hadn't come across H P Lovecraft. If you're looking for the first real attempt at packaging existential dread into the literary form in modern history, this is a very strong recommendation.

P.S. The H P stands for Howard Phillips, and not, as my cousin wrongly posited, Harry Potter.

I'm partial to Knickerbocker's Complete Fiction.

https://www.amazon.ca/Complete-Fiction-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/1631060015

Regardless of what you go with you'll want to get this as a companion, the revision stories are never included in the main collections. People very often neglect these.

https://www.amazon.ca/Horror-Museum-Novel-H-P-Lovecraft/dp/0345485726

I got this one (German amazon but got the English book version) and can't complain. The book comes with a little "box" to shove the book into and the cover/back is like satin or silk or some soft fabric

https://www.amazon.de/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015

Edit: typo

Thanks. I thought I remember reading reviews that the B&N version had a lot of errors in the text. The Knickerbocker is by far the most attractive looking, which makes me want to get that one. Which by the way, do you know anything about this upcoming release? It's also Knickerbocker. Do you think it's the same exact version with a slightly different cover? Perhaps, it's fixed typos and errors? Maybe I'll wait for that one. https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Tales-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631066463/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Lovecraft&qid=1558648377&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-1

Is Skeleton Crew a whole book with Shortstories, like This

This Penguin parallel text samples some of the best Spanish-language authors and has arranged them in order of difficulty. I took it with me when I stayed in Mexico for a while and was so glad I did.

I do believe there are actually a few of his works not included in this print, but I can't remember which ones. Apologies.

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Knickerbocker Classics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1631060015/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_OgSGyb3TC21DK

Knickerbocker Classics makes very nice collections from several authors. They had a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's work at one point, but I can't seem to find it now. It's a shame, I was thinking about grabbing that one next.

Anything by the Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges. After reading his short stories, I would always have to sit and think about what I had read for a while. Here's one of his more famous stories, <strong>The Zahir</strong>. I highly recommend the book <strong>Labyrinths</strong>, which is an English-language collection of his short stories.

Buy this one: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015

It's very cheap for a very good looking hardcover/tome. Fit's the lovecraft mood perfectly. Bought a similar one for Edgar allan Poe

The most similar thing to House of Leaves is the work that clearly inspired it, the stories of Jorge Luis Borges. I give that book my highest possible recommendation, definitely give it a try. House of Leaves is very much a mixture of Borges style puzzles with weird horror, of which Shadows of Carcosa is probably the best place to dive in.

As to science fiction, Solaris has a similar sense of pervading dread in the face of the alien. But Book of the New Sun is what I think you'd really be interested in. It's a bit hard to describe, but if you're the right kind of person for that book you'll find yourself sinking into it.

This one is my favorite. But, if cost is a concern, note that there are links to a free PDF/e-book collection in the sidebar of this sub.

It's not that close, it's more Pittsburgh is far away from ANYTHING else. That's why it's the Paris of the Appalachia

just get the huge-massive collected edition, can't go wrong:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1448904162&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=hp+lovecraft

You are in luck right now my friend. I just picked this up from amazon and it will have everything you need and more, especially for the current price

I've been using a parallel text book of short stories, one page is Spanish and the pairing page is English. It's been helping me increase my comprehension of vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar.

http://www.amazon.com/Short-Stories-Spanish-Penguin-Parallel/dp/0140265414

Start (and end) here!

For $25 you can't go wrong

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015/ref=sr_1_1/181-9172429-5720531?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1428170320&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=HP+Lovecraft

Ew, ebooks.

In all seriousness though, while I much prefer the values of physical media over the convenience of digital media - that is an astounding amount of content for what is essentially lollipop money. Would recommend.

For anyone looking for a complete physical edition, I'd go with the one I own:

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