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I didn't like all of these short stories, but the stories I did like made me actually laugh out loud. I don't know how I've gone this long without discovering Barthelme, but I'm glad I did! 106/1,001
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Amateurs is a collection of short stories written during the seventies. The 1001 Book describes them as “absurdist morality tales” and that fits. Barthelme plays with words and at times I thought “what is this?”, it read like a bunch of ideas dropped in a free association that the author could go back to later and create a story. Others actually had more of a story line. Some were interesting, some were confusing. Here are some titles from some of the more interesting ones;
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