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Different Seasons
by Stephen King
This book has 4 novellas. I was looking forward to read the first one.
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption [Hope Springs Eternal]
Mainly to see if it was better than the amazing movie adaptation. For me it was equally good. My favourite character is still Red (in movie played by Morgan Freeman). Although the story is more about Andy Dufresne, the hope that he always have and he represents, for me, Red is the one who grows, from hopelessness to hope.
Apt Pupil [Summer of Corruption]
This story, OMG I wasn't expecting nothing like this. This novella is about a young boy, an Apt Pupil that is very obsessed about World War II and discovers that a nearby old man was an old SS member and torturer in Camp. He decides to visit the man and somehow become his pupil. The relation between both is toxic and co-dependent. And at the certain point you just know that there is only one possible end for the story. (there is a movie adaptation that I'm looking so forward to check - Ian McKellen is in it!).
The Body [Fall from Innocence]
I found out that this one also had be adapted for cinema. You probably have seen it on the TV - Stand by me. Only after I finished reading it I understood the movie title, and oh boy I shed a few tears because of that. I didn't want to read this one. I thought it would be boring. Four boys going into the wild searching for the dead body of a little boy about there age that was missing. It's a story about growing up, ritual of passage between boy and man. There were many times that I wasn't sure why I was still reading it, because it was almost boring. But then it wasn't. And I learned to love two of the characters and shudder when things happened to them. There were a few scenes that were very visual to me that either disgust me or make me almost feel the pain of the character (specially when one of them is beat up). I do have to re-watch the movie adaptation, and see if it leaves up to the novella.
The Breathing Method [A Winter's Tale]
This one is a bit messed up, but in a good sense. It has two stories in it, but if you closed endings well there isn't one for it. The narrator tells the story about a place where men can go, a sort of gentleman's club. There they can drink, they have a library with tomes and books that don't exist elsewhere and on Thursday's members gather together to tell stories. A special day for stories is the Thursday before Christmas. It's when the most weird and shocking stories are told. And that's the other story of this novella. A doctor tells the story of one of his patient that was so determined to give birth, no matter what. Either of the stories are eerie, and good. Although for me it wasn't my favourite. I would love to read any of those ideas told in a much bigger book.
Review also in portuguese in my April Reads of 2016 http://nutsforpaper.blogspot.pt/2016/05/april-reads.html
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption [Hope Springs Eternal]
Mainly to see if it was better than the amazing movie adaptation. For me it was equally good. My favourite character is still Red (in movie played by Morgan Freeman). Although the story is more about Andy Dufresne, the hope that he always have and he represents, for me, Red is the one who grows, from hopelessness to hope.
Apt Pupil [Summer of Corruption]
This story, OMG I wasn't expecting nothing like this. This novella is about a young boy, an Apt Pupil that is very obsessed about World War II and discovers that a nearby old man was an old SS member and torturer in Camp. He decides to visit the man and somehow become his pupil. The relation between both is toxic and co-dependent. And at the certain point you just know that there is only one possible end for the story. (there is a movie adaptation that I'm looking so forward to check - Ian McKellen is in it!).
The Body [Fall from Innocence]
I found out that this one also had be adapted for cinema. You probably have seen it on the TV - Stand by me. Only after I finished reading it I understood the movie title, and oh boy I shed a few tears because of that. I didn't want to read this one. I thought it would be boring. Four boys going into the wild searching for the dead body of a little boy about there age that was missing. It's a story about growing up, ritual of passage between boy and man. There were many times that I wasn't sure why I was still reading it, because it was almost boring. But then it wasn't. And I learned to love two of the characters and shudder when things happened to them. There were a few scenes that were very visual to me that either disgust me or make me almost feel the pain of the character (specially when one of them is beat up). I do have to re-watch the movie adaptation, and see if it leaves up to the novella.
The Breathing Method [A Winter's Tale]
This one is a bit messed up, but in a good sense. It has two stories in it, but if you closed endings well there isn't one for it. The narrator tells the story about a place where men can go, a sort of gentleman's club. There they can drink, they have a library with tomes and books that don't exist elsewhere and on Thursday's members gather together to tell stories. A special day for stories is the Thursday before Christmas. It's when the most weird and shocking stories are told. And that's the other story of this novella. A doctor tells the story of one of his patient that was so determined to give birth, no matter what. Either of the stories are eerie, and good. Although for me it wasn't my favourite. I would love to read any of those ideas told in a much bigger book.
Review also in portuguese in my April Reads of 2016 http://nutsforpaper.blogspot.pt/2016/05/april-reads.html