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Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection

By: Ruth Rendell, William Boyd, Haruki Murakami, Helen Simpson, Patrick O'Brien
Narrated by: Harriet Walter, Janet McTeer, Julie Christie, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres, Walter Lewis
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With this rich range of unabridged stories we celebrate the very best of contemporary writers and writing.©2006 Public Domain Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Short Story Short Stories
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"A fest of the best."
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Enjoyable and entertaining selection of tales spoilt by the lack of pauses between them. One story ends and immediately the next one starts. One or two don't even tell you the title and author.

Great storytelling, poor editing.

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These stories are delectable. They got me through baking, ironing and tidying! But they ended far too soon - please can we have more modern short story collections such as these!

Fantastic Collection

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The stories are very good but the experience of listening was spoiled. This is because the compilation has been made by jamming all 23 stories together with no space at all between them. The next story starts without a breath being taken!

This is very annoying, as especially with a short story, the final line is important and needs to be digested. This is impossible when the next one begins immediately.

This spoiled them so much I would hesitate to recommend. Yet it could have been so good as the choice of stories and the reading of them is perfect!

Great Stories But Recording Disapointing

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Agree with another reviewer - the stories are varied and all well worth listening to. Janet Mcteer is an incredible actor and reader, so am really drawn to her stories in particular.

But, each ending is ruined by going straight (as if in the same sentence) to another story with no chance of savouring the final sentence. Initially it was very confusing as though the story suddenly took a new direction! I’ve had to put on the sleep timer just to really enjoy this collection.

Great stories, poor editing

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These made good bedtime stories for me. Most were the same length. Only one was distressing so that I had to skip over it.

Interesting tales

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