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Four Past Midnight
by Stephen King
The Langoliers
Wow! What a story! This is one of those stories that sticks with you forever. There are unique ideas about time and space and the places in between in this tale that I'm sure I'll be meeting up with in my dreams from now on. Excellent.
Secret Window, Secret Garden
Secret Window is one of my favorite King movies. I normally hate to read a book after I've already seen the movies; it's just not the same. The novella delivers though. It's a very creepy, dark psychological horror that will sit in your bones forever. My only gripe is that I much preferred the movie ending to the novella ending. My own fault.
The Library Policeman
Ugh. This was such a flop for me. It reminded me a great deal of It, which is one of my least favorite King novels. Or perhaps like one of the many evil anthropomorphic car stories King has written; I don't like any of those either. The subject matter was too ludicrous and random for me to get into it and suspend disbelief. Bummer.
The Sun Dog
I really, really enjoyed the first half of this novella. It proudly resides on the very short list of stories that have kept me awake at night and that I have set aside because I was getting so anxious and jumpy just reading it. It was scary and I liked it. Somewhere in the middle, though, I started getting Needful Things vibes. Maybe that's the problem with reading so much of one author. Anyway, it slowed down and, to me, didn't maintain the locomotive momentum of terror. For that reason, this fell from a five or more likely four star story to three.
Overall
An okay collection. If I ever decided to reread Four Past I would probably read the first two novellas again, but not the second.
Wow! What a story! This is one of those stories that sticks with you forever. There are unique ideas about time and space and the places in between in this tale that I'm sure I'll be meeting up with in my dreams from now on. Excellent.
Secret Window, Secret Garden
Secret Window is one of my favorite King movies. I normally hate to read a book after I've already seen the movies; it's just not the same. The novella delivers though. It's a very creepy, dark psychological horror that will sit in your bones forever. My only gripe is that I much preferred the movie ending to the novella ending. My own fault.
The Library Policeman
Ugh. This was such a flop for me. It reminded me a great deal of It, which is one of my least favorite King novels. Or perhaps like one of the many evil anthropomorphic car stories King has written; I don't like any of those either. The subject matter was too ludicrous and random for me to get into it and suspend disbelief. Bummer.
The Sun Dog
I really, really enjoyed the first half of this novella. It proudly resides on the very short list of stories that have kept me awake at night and that I have set aside because I was getting so anxious and jumpy just reading it. It was scary and I liked it. Somewhere in the middle, though, I started getting Needful Things vibes. Maybe that's the problem with reading so much of one author. Anyway, it slowed down and, to me, didn't maintain the locomotive momentum of terror. For that reason, this fell from a five or more likely four star story to three.
Overall
An okay collection. If I ever decided to reread Four Past I would probably read the first two novellas again, but not the second.