Stephen King's great talent lay in storytelling...just picking the words and laying them out in a way that envelopes you, that gives you no other choice but to live inside the tale 'til the tale is told. Revival tells the story of Jamie Morton who, as a boy, meets Reverend Charles Jacobs and then...
I can't get enough gunslinger! I was pleased to find this Dark Tower tale in a fantasy anthology. It fits well into overall group of Mid-World stories. This is a short story - in the 60-70 page range that happens after the fall of Gilead but before we meet Roland in the desert chasing Walter. ...
This is my first Stephen King book and it is not at all what I was expecting. I guess I was expecting It or Cugo. What I got was thoughtful, emotional, funny, and smart. Joyland is part mystery, part ghost story, part coming of age story, and part drama. Twenty-one year old Devin Jones takes a su...
Joe Hill has quickly made it onto my list of favourite authors. He's a refreshing change for the horror genre; with a style very much like his father's, but with a more modern feel. I've always loved a good horror story, but a lot of the big authors feel either stuck in the past or heavily hinge...
Title - A Face in the CrowdAuthor - Stephen King and Stewart O'NanSummary - "...The summer after his wife died, Dean Evers started watching a lot of baseball. Like so many snowbirds from New England, he was a Red Sox fan who'd fled the nor'easters for the Gulf Coast of Florida and magnanimously a...
I enjoyed A Face In The Crowd. It was a pretty decent Stephen King yarn. It would fit nicely in between the pages of a collection of stories. I’ve never heard of Stewart O’Nan before. I find myself curious about how the collaboration came about. Who wrote what bit? I have too many thoughts in my...
I've heard so many opinions of this series, everything from "remarkable" to "tedious", which simply tells me the style isn't for everyone. Any story written over so many years is going to undergo changes in both style and readability. You could evaluate these separately or all together and come u...
I haven't read a King novel since 11/22/63 (which was brilliant), and except for the Dark Tower books, nothing before that since I threw Tom Gordon across the room. I find the later King straight-up horror books to be overwritten, indulgent, and poorly edited. And as usual, this book could easily...
This was an interesting tale of a rather small event (by 'small' I mean a lot of major character-impacting events occur in a short period of time). The characters are explored and developed somewhat, but I really didn't feel much for anyone. The excitement of the chase had me interested, but as I...
It was my first Stephen King so thanks to my friend who recommended it :) Just the name of "Shawsank Redemption" was enough to drew me towards it as I have seen the brilliant movie so obviously the book has to be equally good if not better. That story is absolutely great and you will agree that t...
Last evening I finally finished a journey I began about more than twenty years ago. I read the first volume of the Dark Tower series when I was in high school, sometime in the late eighties. I made it through the first four books rather quickly, and then King decided to take a bit of a break fro...
[7/10] - "What's on the other side of the door for me?" Eddie asked the gunslinger quietly. "Go on and tell me. If you can tell me, maybe I'll come. But if you lie, I'll know." - "Probably death", the gunslinger said. "But before that happens, I don't think you'll be bored. I want you to join m...
This book contains the biggest lie a writer ever told me. It‘s in the Author‘s Note at the end:The fourth volume in the tale of the Dark Tower should appear - always assuming the continuation of Constant Writer’s life and Constant Reader’s interest - in the not-too-distant-future.It took six yea...
Beyond the reach of human rangeA drop of hell, a touch of strange ... Stephen King considers the Dark Tower series his greatest achievement. He started the epic in his youth, and worked on it for most of his literary career. Readers in general agree with him, and are generous with their praise fo...
ESTE LIBROMEEN-CAN-TÓ! A veces, la gente tenía cosas raras.Lo terminé con una sonrisa. Fue como un helado de frutilla con salsa y frutillas y crema y compartido con la persona que te gusta. Sí, así se sintió. La historia no parece nada del otro mundo, y sin embargo, cuánto me gustó. Tenemos a Ro...
Hopefully I won’t sound too sociopathic when I say there is something seductive about the prospect of the end of the world. On the whole, humans are drawn to order. I’m no exception. I like things to be routine, controlled, and predictable. Still, every once in awhile, especially on a bad day, I ...
Two of the earliest TV broadcasts to give my brother nightmares were Carrie and 'Salem's Lot, adaptations of the first and second novels by Stephen King. Mrs. White locking Carrie in the closet with a crucified Jesus bothered him, as did a boy turned vampire in the town of Jerusalem's Lot floatin...
If this book does not make you feel physical pain, I don't know what will.This isn't a book about killer clowns or haunted hotels. It's not a Hunger Games type of book, despite the "game show" element of the Long Walk, nor is it a world attached to any tower, Dark or not. This book is in-your-f...
I gotta be honest with ya, I had a difficult time putting Lisey's Story down.I believe Stephen King himself said that LS is his attempt at romance writing- (and I clearly am paraphrasing here!) The thing is, while it is a love story and there is indeed a happily ever after ending- though certainl...
Stephen King does zombies! Well...kind of. We'll get to that in a bit.But first, here's how I think this book came about:Way back in aught-6 (2006), or just before because Cell was published in '06, but who knows with King, am I right? But anyway, we've come a long way since that time. Everyone w...
A lot of people hate this book for bullshit reasons. I don't usually comment on other people's opinions (I have in the past, but not often) because its their subjective feelings about the shit they read. Fine. Whatever. But to hate this book because it has a cover that only vaguely touches upon t...
Qué tristeza y desesperanza transmite este libro... Creo que estoy a punto de ponerme a gritar. Por las cosas perdidas. Por tu sonrisa, Mary. Perdóname si echo la cabeza hacia atrás y me pongo a gritar por la sonrisa que ya nunca aparece en tu rostro. ¿De acuerdo?King con este relato nos enseña q...
IN THESE SILENCES SOMETHING MAY RISEOi, this book is a doozy! I read it months ago but only just finished its companion novel so I think I'm finally ready to organize my thoughts and write a review of this thing. I know I rated it three stars but that's really only in comparison to King's other...
Prefatory Matters: I lost a twenty-year-old book during this reread. Most of you have the seen the picture of my gutted hardcover copy of Insomnia. If you haven’t I’ll include it at the end of this post as well. Total loss of containment, folks. About thirty pages loosed themselves from the glue ...
I remember reading this when I was 16. My dad bought me the hardcover for my birthday, and I remember reading it on a plane. That's about all that I remember about it, though, other than a vague recollection of liking it, hence my pre-Goodreads rating of 3 stars. Now, 16 years later (Please don'...
The only hell that exists is the one we create for ourselves and others. Carrie White has been abused all her life. Not even allowed to sleep with a pillow, denied all comfort by her fundamentalist mother, taunted and beaten by her relentless classmates, loved by no one: Carrie keeps her head do...
QUESTION: Is Stephen King the BEST PURE STORYTELLER of the 20th Century ?ANSWER: Who knows...I haven’t got the slightest wisp of the faintest fragment of a lingering shadow of a clue how to answer that manwich-sized question. However, I do think that in order to have a credible debate on the sub...
It's been a while since I read this book. I had some pretty fond memories of it, and it's always been my favorite of two companion books that King/Bachman published together. They are alternate realities, kind of mirror images, of each other... But The Regulators is also a link to the Dark Tower ...
In many ways, Cujo is the animal equivalent of The Shining. In The Shining, it's Jack Torrance going mad and inflicting reign of terror upon victims in an isolated location. In Cujo, it's a 200 pound St. Bernard, bitten by a bat and gone slowly mad due to rabies infection who becomes a killing ...
4.5 stars246 . . . 188 . . . 172 . . . 156 . . . 137—How low can you go?172 . . . 156—How low can you go . . . 137 . . . before . . . Death!This is the question that the “big, fat hog” protagonist Billy Halleck faces in this “last” Bachman novel. And interestingly, with his last, (before his resu...
In the early eighties, Stephen King and Peter Straub embarked on the ultimate coming-of-age tale. The Talisman easily solidified the collaboration's super status. Then, nearly two decades later, they returned to their literary roots. Black House portrays a different Jack Sawyer, now a semi-retire...
بدايةُ أظن بأن اسم الرواية اللحظة الأخيرة لم يكن موفقا" فاسم الرواية الأصلي في النسخة الإنكليزية هو الميل الأخضر (The Green Mile)و القصة تدور حول هذا الميل الأخير في أحد السجون الذي يقطعونه قبل أن ينفذ فيهم حكم الإعدام و يفارقوا الحياة .. الكاتب استخدمه ايضا" نوعا" ما كرمز , و يظهر هذا جليا" ف...
Stephen King’s approach to horror is much less about the supernatural than I think his reputation suggests. Before approaching his work back in high school, I was vaguely aware of books like Cujo, Pet Sematary, Christine and It (mostly due to their movie incarnations), and based on these, I assu...
“As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, th...
It's been a good 10-12 years since I've read this one, and it was long overdue for a re-read. Especially considering the fact that the only story I could really even remember in even the vaguest way was "The Long Walk". So I picked it up to give it another whirl. Not disappointed at all, but of c...
Great suspense. Wife runs from her abusive husband who is now tracking her.STORY BRIEF:The first 10% is Rose living with Norman. They’ve been married fourteen years. He bites, stabs, and punches her. (Most of this harm is told rather than shown so it’s a little less painful for the reader.) ...
Four Past Midnight is a collection containing the following "short" stories:1. The Langoliers (233 pages)2. Secret Window, Secret Garden (146 pages)3. The Library Policeman (195 pages)4. The Sun Dog (149 pages)Generally speaking, Stephen King begins with amazing concepts that are soon dragged dow...
"DOLORES, PONEKAD JE POTREBNO BITI GADURA DA BI PREŽIVJELA"Prošlo je više od godinu dana kada sam se zadnji puta družio s imaginacijom velikog gospodina Kinga, tako da je bilo vrijeme da ponovno zavirim u njegov uvrnuti mozak. Kao i uvijek, nisam se prevario jer sam dobio jednu vrlo dobru priču o...
I've been reading King novels since I was pretty young, probably too young in fact--there's no way I fully got the S&M bits from Gerald's Game and the sex scene with Beverly and her shithead husband from It burned its way into my prepubescent brain and has remained there since. Despite being a lo...
First off, I'm a King fanboy, but I'm a little different from other fanboys. Here's what I think: When King's good, he's the best in the business. When he sucks, he's still readable, but it pisses me the fuck off because I know what he's capable of. Being readable even when he's off his game is h...
Whew... There's a lot that I want to say about this book, and I'm not really sure where to start. I first read this book back in... oh, 2002 or 2003, maybe, and I can absolutely say that I did NOT get much out of it. Sure, it's still a thrill ride, still entertaining, but it was definitely not hi...
Reading, and especially choosing what to read, has always been very mood and impulse driven for me. I may wake up tomorrow with a craving for Rex Stout, but I may wake up the next day jonesing for Harlan Ellison. The weather, how well I feel, and the music they are playing in the book store may a...
I very much enjoyed this story about a nine 'but big for her age' year-old girl who gets lost in the Maine wilderness. For the most part. So let's get down to it. What I liked: The girl who loved baseball. Yep, that pretty much sums up why I loved this book. I mean, how can you not love a nine-ye...
3.6 starsWARNING: A Long review follows, (due to ratings and reviews given to each story).Despite the title of this anthology, Skeleton Crew has a range of story “type” that is wide—from “evil,” (the “Milkman” tales) to “loving,” (“For Owen”). Additionally, both with his introduction and epigraph...
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4.70 stars.“. . . it’s hard for me to believe there ever was such a year as 1970, and . . . at other times [it’s] a handsbreath away, that I can almost touch it.”Yes!In The Dead Zone, Stephen King reflects the spirit of the times more than in any other novel previously penned, (his Bachman Roadwo...
3.5 StarsBeing a lifelong King fan has its ups and downs, for sure, but it always makes things interesting. Like the time that this book was confiscated by a "concerned teacher" when I brought it to school with me. I think I was somewhere around 14 or 15ish, and had already been reading King for ...
Неведнъж съм казвал, че четирите ранни романа на Стивън Кинг, излезли под псевдонима Ричард Бакман - "Бягащият мъж", "Гняв", "Дългата разходка" и "Пътна мрежа", са сред моите най-любими произведения на Краля. Той си е позволил да си направи експеримент, целящ да противопостави таланта срещу попул...
Audiobook – Narrated by Edward Herrmann – Excellent narration.***Ebook: Not quite 4**** but more than 3*** So, 3 and a half stars.The Onion wrote an article claiming that King couldn't remember writing The Tommyknockers. He (King) then admitted that it was actually true, as he couldn't remember...
If someone would have told me back in the ‘90s that the way to get Stephen King to finish up the Dark Tower series quickly was to hit him with a minivan, I would have been on my way to Maine to rent a Dodge Caravan before you could say, "Bango Skank was here."I confess this not to do more complai...
I haven't read this one since high school, nigh on ten years ago, twelve if I say I read it as a freshman, I can't remember. That time was the only time I'd read this book, so it was way past due for me to give it a re-read. All I really remembered about it was the phrase "The sparrows are flying...
I'm not sure what to make of this story. If I try not to read too much between the lines, it reads as if Stephen King couldn't just figure out how to go about this story and kept throwing different ideas around. In most of the story, he tells you how it might go and then rejects the idea as too c...
So... This is not one of my favorite King books. The first time I ever read it, I did so without realizing that it was a collection of inter-related short stories, and not having read The Dark Tower series (though, Ted wouldn't have made an appearance in that series way back when anyway, so...), ...
Il s'agit bien d'un essai de Michel Houellebecq consacré à l'un de ses auteurs favoris Howard Phillips Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft est l'un des maîtres du récit fantastique et d'horreur. Dans ce court essai, Michel Houellebecq étudie l'homme et son oeuvre et cherche à trouver des parralléles. Ce n'...
From start to finish all laughs. Which is good, because that is the point of this 'book' right? The odds are good you'll find a good chuckle on every page, seeing as there are on average 4 comics per page. What I found interesting was over the hundereds of 'funnies' in the collection, there was r...
Stephen King will publish two books this year: one is already out, and the other will be released tomorrow. In January or February the publishing schedule was switched around for some reason, so Everything’s Eventual – a collection of short stories – was released in March, while From a Buick 8 wi...
AUDIO BOOK :The thing that pees me off when listening to some audiobooks is the music. It’s annoying and distracting and this one was no different!Dolan’s Cadillac – Narrated By Rob Low – Excellent narration!The End of the Whole Mess – Narrated by Matthew Broderick – Excellent narration.Suffer th...
This being my first short story collection by Mr. King, I will score each story individually, and average them together (for those of you who aren't keen with math, that means I'll add them up and divide by the number of stories - in this case fourteen). In order:(note: asterisks ***means spoile...
One of the best short stories I've ever read was a non-fiction piece by Stephen King. Appearing buried in the back of his "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" collection, it was a piece he wrote following his son's Little League baseball team one Summer, when they went further in the competition than for...
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!…but not forever: If the Universal Church of the Congregation of His Most Cosmically Cyclopean and Magisterial Mightiness, the Impenitent, Indomitable and Indefatigable Cthulhu (aka He With Whom One Does Not Fuck) ever designates a single tome as its bible, then this colle...
With an introduction by Stephen King and an amalgam of short stories and essays, Stalking the Nightmare is an entertaining read. As with any collection of tales from a single writer, some stand out more than others. In this case, the most memorable ones include:"Grail" - in which a man spends h...
This is kind of a difficult book to review, primarily because it was meant to be a precursor to the show/miniseries "Kingdom Hospital". Consequently, the ending was a total cliffhanger, and, since the show is no longer on the air and I have no desire to track it down to watch it, I haven't got an...
If Stephen King had died fifty years ago and left all these books for us to read whenever and in whatever order, I wouldn’t have placed this one in the twilight of his career. This would have gone in the “good and thoughtful” pile. I guess being hit by a car helped him write Edgar, the man who lo...
I would like to read the book IT by steohen king. I hope someone will add IT.
—Aiyanna
Scared the bejesus out of me twenty plus years ago. Still get some fragments of it in nightmares. Love
—kr
It by Steven king
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