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A review by joannacalder
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
5.0
This is the best thing by Stephen King that I have read in a long time. It is not a book to read shortly before bedtime, as you risk staying up far too late, long past bedtime, to finish one of the short stories -- as I did one night.
King, who is now 76, explores in many of the stories the process of aging. Joints creak, muscles hurt, and memory gets a little wobbly. But his aging protagonists have that spark of life, of vitality, of FIDO (as he notes in one of the stories) -- F*** It, Drive On. Some of the stories have "happy" endings, some do not (after all, death comes for us all in the end), but all are extraordinarily satisfying.
He began one of the stories when he was much, much younger and set it aside. Finishing it in his 70s, it has a depth of meaning that would probably have been impossible to achieve before confronting the truth that his own mortality is now a ticking clock.
All that to say, if I could have rated this higher than five stars, I would have.
King, who is now 76, explores in many of the stories the process of aging. Joints creak, muscles hurt, and memory gets a little wobbly. But his aging protagonists have that spark of life, of vitality, of FIDO (as he notes in one of the stories) -- F*** It, Drive On. Some of the stories have "happy" endings, some do not (after all, death comes for us all in the end), but all are extraordinarily satisfying.
He began one of the stories when he was much, much younger and set it aside. Finishing it in his 70s, it has a depth of meaning that would probably have been impossible to achieve before confronting the truth that his own mortality is now a ticking clock.
All that to say, if I could have rated this higher than five stars, I would have.