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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
once i started half the stories i couldn’t put them down. i loved this book, my favorite story was probably “popsy” or “suffer the little children”, they were written so well and i couldn’t stop reading them until i finished. The text format in “sorry right number” wasn’t my favorite way to read the text but it was a great collection of stories still
“Sometimes you could get rid of the ghosts that were haunting your life if you could only work up enough courage to face them.”
This collection features some creepy and disturbing tales that were good to kick off spooky season reading. I began reading this a while back and found a lot of the stories to be bizarre and some memorable for how intense they were.
A few of the ones I liked were:
The Moving Finger
Rainy Season
Sorry, Right Number
The Night Flier
Popsy
Suffer the Little Children.
I wanted to enjoy more of the stories in this collection however some were hard to get through
This collection features some creepy and disturbing tales that were good to kick off spooky season reading. I began reading this a while back and found a lot of the stories to be bizarre and some memorable for how intense they were.
A few of the ones I liked were:
The Moving Finger
Rainy Season
Sorry, Right Number
The Night Flier
Popsy
Suffer the Little Children.
I wanted to enjoy more of the stories in this collection however some were hard to get through
De goede verhalen waren 5 sterren waard, de slechte krap 2. Vandaar een gemiddelde rating van 3 sterren.
King really is a great practitioner of the short story.
dark
Stephen King and short stories, you can never go wrong. This is another fantastic collection.
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
"Most of us are content simply to be tourists in the country of our imaginations."
The second King short story collection that I have finished and I was very hot and cold on it. When there was a story that grabbed me I flew through it but when they didn't it felt like a slog to read. The ones I just was cold on felt a mixture of not being fleshed out enough or the ideas being kind of one dimensional with an item being cursed and that driving the plot which while that is a keystone of horror sometimes just becomes boring.
There were a bunch I enjoyed as they felt very King, The House on Maple Street, Umney's Last Case, You Know They Got a Hell of a Band, and then my favorite Head Down. Other than Head Down I wish the others could have been longer because I felt like there was more to tell in those stories. Like the Pleasantville type story that was Hell of a Band, to a kids saving the day that was Maple Steeet, or the dimension bending that was Last Case.
To me Head Down just showed how good of a writer King is as he made me care about baseball, which I don't enjoy normally, as he told the real life story of how the team his son Owen was on won the Maine little league championship in 1989. It was funny, it was tense, it had a bit of the coming of age feel, and it just worked well as a story.
Overall and ok story collection with some that I may come back to in the future but not one that would get a full reread.
The second King short story collection that I have finished and I was very hot and cold on it. When there was a story that grabbed me I flew through it but when they didn't it felt like a slog to read. The ones I just was cold on felt a mixture of not being fleshed out enough or the ideas being kind of one dimensional with an item being cursed and that driving the plot which while that is a keystone of horror sometimes just becomes boring.
There were a bunch I enjoyed as they felt very King, The House on Maple Street, Umney's Last Case, You Know They Got a Hell of a Band, and then my favorite Head Down. Other than Head Down I wish the others could have been longer because I felt like there was more to tell in those stories. Like the Pleasantville type story that was Hell of a Band, to a kids saving the day that was Maple Steeet, or the dimension bending that was Last Case.
To me Head Down just showed how good of a writer King is as he made me care about baseball, which I don't enjoy normally, as he told the real life story of how the team his son Owen was on won the Maine little league championship in 1989. It was funny, it was tense, it had a bit of the coming of age feel, and it just worked well as a story.
Overall and ok story collection with some that I may come back to in the future but not one that would get a full reread.
dark
medium-paced