Book - 5, To Cut a Long Story Short

To Cut a Long Story Short (2000)

by

Jeffrey Archer

Book Read: March 2015

Note Written: 03 July 2015

This was a collection of short stories by Jeffrey Archer that I had borrowed from Joel. All the stories are told in a typical Archer style- simple, thrilling in places, and a definite twist at the end. I like Archer for the ways in which he places and packs his stories with plot twists. He begins the collection with a tiny Persian folktale about death -'Death Speaks'. It's just about a paragraph but it is as powerful as the best of stories. 'Eli' the short film by Alphonse Puthren says a similar tale. The other stories in the book were also enjoyable as a time-pass read. Earlier Archer used to be my favourite author, and now I realize that was because I hadn't read better novels and stories from greater authors. Jeffrey Archer is a master in his kind of stories - simple, twisty, thrilling etc. He novels are always a fun ride, my favourite being 'First Among Equals'.