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The Lottery and Other Stories - Shirley Jackson
The Lottery and Other Stories
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4.05 55
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141191430 (0141191430)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 302
Edition language: English
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theguywhoreads
theguywhoreads rated it
4.0 Short Stories of the Normal In An Extraordinary Way.
Before, I did mention I enjoyed reading short stories. There aren't many books with short stories today and for a long time, I heard about The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, which is one of the reasons why I had been looking high and low for this collection. There are 24 short stories altogether and to...
Chris Blocker
Chris Blocker rated it
5.0 Review: The Lottery and Other Stories
The Lottery and Other Stories is an uneven collection. If you've read any of my reviews about a collection of short stories, you've probably heard this before. “Uneven” sums up my feelings for every short story collection I've ever read. There are different levels of uneven, but it's only natural th...
Abandoned by Booklikes
Abandoned by Booklikes rated it
4.0 The Lottery and Other Stories
Please note that I gave this book 3.5 stars, however, I rounded it up to 4 stars on Goodreads.Although I liked this collection of short stories, I am not going to lie, I was pretty disappointed that they were not horror stories. And I am even puzzled at people claiming these are Gothic stories too.S...
chadschimke
chadschimke rated it
5.0 THE LOTTERY
THE LOTTERY SHORT STORY REVIEW - Love it or hate it, Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is indelibly etched on the American subconscious. It’s on every high school and college reading list. When it first appeared in The New Yorker in June of 1948, the magazine received an onslaught of complaint letters a...
The Primroses Were Over
The Primroses Were Over rated it
3.0 The Lottery and Other Stories
I think I was expecting these stories to read more like The Lottery, which I read in school and quite enjoyed. Unfortunately, they didn't, or at least not in the same way I had hoped. They shared a rather gloomy outlook on life with The Lottery, certainly, but that was kind of the defining factor....
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