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"The Gnawing Worm" and "The Writer's Secret." Honorable mention for "The Walls of Anagoor."

"The Saucer Has Landed," "The Collapse of the Baliverna," "The Five Brothers," and "The Time Machine" are standouts. (Honorable mention for "Appointment with Einstein.")

"Panic at La Scala." Great! Very much like a Buñuel film (the obvious comparison being The Exterminating Angel) in that it's very funny on the surface and that I'm sure I'm missing something of the deeper satire.

I'm only six or seven stories into this collection, but I love it already. Between this and The Stronghold, Dino Buzzati is fast becoming one of my favorite writers.

Standouts so far are "Our Moment," "Seven Floors," "The Seven Messengers," and "The Bewitched Bourgeois."

"But then I think about spending my entire life in here. Two years have already passed. Two years identical in every way. Who knows how many more will pass before I can leave. One fine day I'll find I've become an old man, still at the same table, my life gone by that point." [Our Moment]

The first story and I'm already depressed. Thanks, Dino.

Finished "The Shorter Stories."
Greatly enjoyed "Poseidon," "The Trapeze Artist," and "The Married Couple."

Greatly enjoyed "The Bridge," "The Bucket Rider," "An Old Manuscript," "The Knock at the Manor Gate," "Eleven Sons," "My Neighbor," and "The Cares of a Family Man."

Realizing it would be much simpler to list the stories I didn't absolutely love.

Of "The Shorter Stories" thus far I've greatly enjoyed:
"Clothes," "The Tradesman," "Passers-By," "Reflections for Gentlemen-Jockeys," "Bachelor's Ill Luck," "A Dream," "A Fratricide," "The Next Village," "A Visit to a Mine," and "Jackals and Arabs."

Finished "The Longer Stories." Can add "The Burrow" to my list of favorites.

Seeing as I'm nearing the end of "The Longer Stories," I thought I'd list my favorite stories thus far:
"The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," "In the Penal Colony," "The Village Schoolmaster [The Giant Mole]," "Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor," "A Country Doctor," "A Report to an Academy," "The Refusal," and "A Hunger Artist."
Honorable mentions: "The Great Wall of China" and "Investigations of a Dog."

Read "The Metamorphosis." I'm left devastated.