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3.63 AVERAGE
3.63 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I didn't reread this whole book, I only read A Very Tight Place for my podcast Gross Misinterpretation, but I'm still giving myself credit as having read a book because it took time away from my other reading and it annoyed me.
A Very Tight Place is a story that features Stephen Kings first gay protagonist : rich, white, middle aged gay that wishes his masseuse would have sex with him and has a fetish for making himself gag. He's also embroiled in a long time feud with his elderly, cancer stricken, equally rich neighbor who thinks Mr. Johnson (yes, that's the gay man's name) is literally a gay witch.
Johnson is trapped in a port o potty at an abandoned work site and is forced through the degradation of climbing into the shit tank to burrow his way out through the bottom. This is disgusting and horrible to read.
The ending seems to both want Johnson to move on and still revel in the idea of his sick old neighbor committing suicide, which he does. I think there's some mixed messages here, as well as a misguided attempt be represent the gay community while putting the gay protagonist through every sort of degradation and making his favorite hobbies gagging and keeping track of the stock market.
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A Very Tight Place is a story that features Stephen Kings first gay protagonist : rich, white, middle aged gay that wishes his masseuse would have sex with him and has a fetish for making himself gag. He's also embroiled in a long time feud with his elderly, cancer stricken, equally rich neighbor who thinks Mr. Johnson (yes, that's the gay man's name) is literally a gay witch.
Johnson is trapped in a port o potty at an abandoned work site and is forced through the degradation of climbing into the shit tank to burrow his way out through the bottom. This is disgusting and horrible to read.
The ending seems to both want Johnson to move on and still revel in the idea of his sick old neighbor committing suicide, which he does. I think there's some mixed messages here, as well as a misguided attempt be represent the gay community while putting the gay protagonist through every sort of degradation and making his favorite hobbies gagging and keeping track of the stock market.
Anchor.fm/grossmisinterpretation
Revisit, but audiobook. Some wonderful stories and, as always with King's audiobook productions (so far as I've listened) this was great and high quality.
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This book was my least favourite Stephen King work that I've read so far. I liked the stories "the cat from hell", "gingerbread girl", and "the things they left behind". I didn't like "N." or "a tight place" because N." seemed like a Lovecraft rip-off, and " a tight place" was just disgusting.
Not as good as some of his earlier short story collections but there are a few tales that dig in. 'N' gets under your skin effectively.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Again, I liked it. But there are other short fiction collections by Stephen King that I like better.
The stories were of varying quality and interest level. I think Stephen King does well not just as a horror writer, but as an author of general character-centric fiction. This was not my favorite of his collections, but a couple of stories stood out.