Thursday, January 28, 2010

The Lottery

One of the most chilling short stories I've read in a long long time - can possibly beat the Skins collection by Dahl.

ALL OF YOU GO READ IT HERE.

3 comments:

  1. Mmm. I dunno... I think I have to stand up for Roald Dahl here. I think his pacing is brilliant and the.. lack of explanation in this story made me feel a little cheated. Unless I missed something? (very possible)

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  2. The whole context reminds me of The Giver by louis lowery the whole Village vibe feel ... it was not a bad story!

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  3. ITS SO FREAKYYY. the casual, communal village tone at the start and the general camerader

    ie makes you think its some festival. BUT ITS NOT. and yeah kelly, its really confusing at first but when you go back and reread it knowing the end, it all makes sense. although i probably did go a little far in debunking roald dahl's throne heh

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