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A review by zjames
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
3.0
This collection starts of strong with the ridiculous but gripping story Autopsy Room Four, but the rest of the collection quickly slides into mediocrity, rarely rising above it.
I was surprised when I found out that award winning stories like Riding The Bullet and 1408 turned out to be repetitive and mundane. King obviously wanted to subvert typical ghost story tropes with these stories, but when he did so he robbed them of any teeth or any reason to be interesting.
The one standout in the middle of the collection is The Three Sisters of Eluria, which was fantastic. It is a Dark Tower story, so I may be biased, as I'll devour anything from that universe, but it was by far the best story in the whole collection. The language, the magic, the history - the world-building of Mid-World is on another level. King really should stick to expanding the Dark Tower universe.
I was surprised when I found out that award winning stories like Riding The Bullet and 1408 turned out to be repetitive and mundane. King obviously wanted to subvert typical ghost story tropes with these stories, but when he did so he robbed them of any teeth or any reason to be interesting.
The one standout in the middle of the collection is The Three Sisters of Eluria, which was fantastic. It is a Dark Tower story, so I may be biased, as I'll devour anything from that universe, but it was by far the best story in the whole collection. The language, the magic, the history - the world-building of Mid-World is on another level. King really should stick to expanding the Dark Tower universe.