Looking for short story book

[Brian G Turner]

(This is a test thread, to try out the new Q&A answer format and up/down voting of replies - to see if it might work in the Book Search section. You are welcome to have fun with it. )

I remember reading a book of short stories once. It was very good. I don't remember much about it. The cover had red and blue on it, I think, with red toward the top and blue toward the bottom of the cover. I read it a few years ago.

 

[Brian G Turner]

I will let you know if I remember anything else about it.

 

[The Judge]

I think I might have read that one, too!

I've up-voted, but I see I can change my mind and down-vote later, which could be interesting! I think I'll end up only using the "Sort by date"option, though, to avoid confusion!


EDIT: that's disappointing -- I can't up-vote my own post!

 

[Ursa major]

The cover had red and blue on it

This paints a picture of a book that might contain quite a bit of purple prose.

Would that be a correct assumption?

 

[tachyon]

"Red" and "Blue" are characters in the book This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.
The cover features a red cardinal above a blue bird of some kind.

While this is a novel and not a short story collection the episodic nature might be considered a sort of collection of shorts.
However, it's probably also too recent.

 

[Danny McG]

EDIT: that's disappointing -- I can't up-vote my own post

I've had a go, sorry but I tried down-voting instead.
This means you're now at minus 2

 

[nixie]

I'm sure I've read it, maybe the little red tractor

 

[PaulMmn]

No! No! No! No tractor; Blue Lagoon!

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

This answer is incredibly useless. Please downvote and see where we end up

 

[Randy M.]

Did the blue lagoon have a red wheelbarrow? You know, so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow ...

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

Monty Python's Big Red Book fulfils all criteria

Monty Python's Big Red Book - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Astro Pen]

I think it was this one. It has red and blue bits and the stories are very short, usually one word.
Hope this helps.

 

[Danny McG]

I think it needs an autolock upvote/downvote' after an hour or so

 

[Astro Pen]

Did the blue lagoon have a red wheelbarrow? You know, so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow ...

I think in blue lagoon "wheelbarrow" was a position, not an object.

 

[PaulMmn]

I think in blue lagoon "wheelbarrow" was a position, not an object.

Only after sitting around the blue lagoon independently.

 

[Parson]

I've got it! One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by the infamous Dr. Seuss.

 

[Alex The G and T]

I had a blue and red book of short stories. Put me to sleep, reading by the pool side.

By the time I woke up and fished the book out of the water, the cover was entirely a sort of monochrome puce.

*****
Took me a bit to find the up/down votes, off on the right margin. (I started looking in the same old reaction bar)

I'm a bit disconcerted that the count is anonymous. I rather enjoy knowing whom I have amused and whom I have annoyed.

 

[M. Robert Gibson]

I'm a bit disconcerted that the count is anonymous. I rather enjoy knowing whom I have amused and whom I have annoyed.

Aah, but that way vendettas can arise, passed down through the generations from father to son, mother to daughter until the end of time when humanity exists as nothing but up-arrows and down-arrows

 

[paranoid marvin]

What is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?

 

[Astro Pen]

I've got it! One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by the infamous Dr. Seuss.

I just love learning about marine biology.