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Mile 81 by Stephen King
5.0
“She had grown up knowing you cared for the one who had fallen and couldn’t get up. She had also grown up knowing you ate no shit—not about your hosses, your size, your line of work, or your sexual preferences. Once you started eating shit, it had a way of becoming your regular diet.”
― Stephen King, Mile 81
Really enjoyed this short story. It was definitely one of his better ones, incorporating a lot of different characters without feeling like he was getting too off track.
Something I've noticed king doing a lot in his book is like throwing in movie or tv show names and references when he's too lazy to describe a situation. Saying it's like 'Fringe' or The X Files Not a huge fan of that shit. I'd rather read a description of a scene that just read 'Oh it was like the walking dead' feels lazy to me.
But I did enjoy this one. It was an easy, quick read.
― Stephen King, Mile 81
Really enjoyed this short story. It was definitely one of his better ones, incorporating a lot of different characters without feeling like he was getting too off track.
Something I've noticed king doing a lot in his book is like throwing in movie or tv show names and references when he's too lazy to describe a situation. Saying it's like 'Fringe' or The X Files Not a huge fan of that shit. I'd rather read a description of a scene that just read 'Oh it was like the walking dead' feels lazy to me.
But I did enjoy this one. It was an easy, quick read.