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Pet Sematary by Stephen King
3.5
Highs are high but lows are a lot of redundant, momentum-killing scenes almost turning this into a slog.
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
2.5
2020s King trying to write teenage-speak is so annoying. The story is weirdly shaped and weirdly claustrophobic. Everything about this smells funny... and yet, I finished the thing, and it was... Fine?.. I guess.
Revival by Stephen King
2.75
"...at the end of your life, you're lucky if you die,
Sometimes I wonder why we even try."
Sometimes I wonder why we even try."
The Regulators by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
2.5
Such garbage, and so slight and uneventful considering the page count (granted, King wrote much longer books too). But I gotta admit it's a little funny for how lame (and inexplicable) it is.
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
4.25
Probably, his masterpiece. A "righteous crime" story to the tune of Dolan's Cadillac is weaved seamlessly with a gothic melodrama, and - which is so unusual for King - he understands perfectly what information to emphasize, what to omit, and, as a result, hardly wastes a page (aside from that weird experiment of tying the novel to Gerald's Game).
The Sun Dog: Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
3.0
Pretty dumb. Ends in a way that telegraphs King had no clear plan for how to end it when he started writing. More fun that it has any right to be. Store clerk girl's PoV section is a stand-out (a 10-page-long section that drums up dread from the fact that a dirty grandpa that usually likes to oggle the girl's butt no longer comes anywhere near oggling her butt ).
The Long Walk by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
4.0
Nothing impresses a teenager just like a book-length metaphor for the life we live as a needlessly brutal, arbitrary endurance test