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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

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Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

De: Raymond Carver
Narrado por: Norman Dietz
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With this, his first collection of stories, Raymond Carver breathed new life into the American short story and instantly became both the recognized master of the form and one of our best-loved fiction writers. Carver shows us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people; his stories are the classics of our time.

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I rather enjoyed these stories. Albeit short stories are usually frustrating because they lead you in then desert you in a foreign landscape, I think the title of the book was true to the theme and absolved some of the guilt of the inherent abandonment. Yeah, I liked them, and the narrator as well.

Yes!

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Completely bypass the negative comments about Norman Dietz from some of these supposed critics. Who knows what they were looking for in a narrator and who cares. He does a fantastic job and no emotion or humor is lost from the stories with his voice.
If you are new to Carvers writings be prepared for abrupt endings that may make you feel like either missed something or the recording cut out. It is written this way with purpose, and concentration on character. This may be off putting to those who look for formulaic style like you were taught in school. Carver is advanced literature but completely accessible to anyone who appreciates the art of writing.

Ignore the Dietz haters

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I know these aren't horror stories, spooky or jumpy, but they capture horror better than most short stories in that genre. I'm not saying that in a bad way. These stories are realistic and for the most part perfectly shaped scoops of life and decisions and dread. It's a superb collection.

I kept thinking horror

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Masterful story teller. Catches human’s most basic primitive instincts in a modern world. Stories are like a contemporary abstract painting which leaves the viewer/reader with the interpretation and conclusion up to them. Few writers have this gift.

RaymondCarver

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I felt most of his stories stopped short of having a point. Narration wasn't great

I guess I don't get Carver

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Carver is a genius, and it's a shame he often goes underappreciated.

These stories are simple and have a very real, visceral quality to them. He doesn't waste words.


Also, it's worth mentioning that enjoyed the performance quite a lot. I understand some other reviewers didn't, but I wanted to provide a counter weight.

Wonderful

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“Not in pictures she had seen nor in any book she had read had she learned a sunrise was so terrible as this.”
― Raymond Carver, "The Student's Wife" in Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

A collection of 22 short stories averaging about 6-8 pages each (a couple might stray into the 11-15 page range) that Carver wrote during what Carver called his "Bad Raymond days" or "First Life" (1960-1974) . Disclosure, like in other short story collections, I may have put one star too many on some of these and accidentally left of a star when I should have actually included it it on several. I read these stories in San Diego drinking Diet Coke while laying under palm shade on fake grass at the Hotel del Coronado. I probably should have been drinking cheap bourbon to really get more into it. But that's it. I can't imagine getting MORE into it. Carver's spare writing guts me. I feel like I'm exposed, raw, and sore. He is brutal. Several stories almost made me cry (and I'm not a casual literary crybaby). While reading this, I kept thinking how different directors (Not Altman) would direct these stories? Some seemed almost Lynchian (the macabre hiding under the banal and normal), while some seemed more like they gave a K-Mart meets Alfonso Cuarón vibe. I liked the idea of him as the poor-man's Hemingway, but he is more human and brutal than just that. He captures humanity at the point where we break (and we all break).

1 "Fat" - ★★★★
2 "Neighbors" - ★★★★★
3 "The Idea"- ★★★★
4 "They're Not Your Husband" - ★★★★★
5 "Are You a Doctor?" - ★★★
6 "The Father" - ★★★
7 "Nodody Said Anything" - ★★★★
8 "Sixty Acres" - ★★★
9 "What's In Alaska?" - ★★★★★
10 "Night School" - ★★★★
11 "Collectors" - ★★★★
12 "What Do You Do in San Francisco" - ★★★★
13 "The Student's Wife" - ★★★★★
14 "Put Yourself In My Shoes" - ★★★★
15 "Jerry and Molly and Sam" - ★★★★★
16 "Why, Honey?" - ★★★★
17 "The Ducks" - ★★★★★
18 "How About This?" - ★★★★
19 "Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes" - ★★★★★
20 "Are These Actual Miles?" - ★★★★★
21 "Signals" - ★★★★
22 "Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?" - ★★★★★

Humanity at the Breaking Point

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