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“I am wonderful, I deserve to be wonderful, and I contain multitudes.”

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

June 24, 2020 by scootsa1000 1 Comment

I haven’t been great about reading lately, and have been even worse about reviewing. But as a loyal Constant Reader, I felt like this might be the book to jumpstart my COVID reading habits, and I was mostly right. Similiar to earlier collections like Different Seasons, The Bachman Books, Full Dark No Stars, and Four Past Midnight, If It Bleeds is made up of four long-ish, unrelated stories (or novellas, if you’re feeling fancy): Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: cbr12, dandelo, holly gibney, if it bleeds, mr harrigan's phone, rat, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, Steven weber, The Dark Tower, the life of chuck, The Outsider

scootsa1000's CBR12 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: cbr12, dandelo, holly gibney, if it bleeds, mr harrigan's phone, rat, Scootsa1000, Stephen King, Steven weber, The Dark Tower, the life of chuck, The Outsider ·
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Some moments are beyond imagination.

August 5, 2017 by borisanne 2 Comments

Okay, I’m back. I haven’t lost my mind, or my grip on reality. Everything’s fine. It took me a long time to read this final installment of “The Dark Tower” series. Sure, it’s super long, but it’s shorter than a few of the other installments. I just truly didn’t want it to end, so I stretched it out, found distractions and procrastinations, and delayed the inevitable. This final chapter is less full of revelation, and doesn’t so closely ressemble a conspiracy theorist’s corkboard with pushpins […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction Tagged With: aaron deepneau, Arthur, beam, bear, blue heaven, casse roi russe, cbr9, clearing at the end of the path, crimson king, dandelo, deschain, detta, discordia, dogan, eld, fantasy, fedick, Fiction, gan, gun, Gunslinger, horror, irene tassenbaum, jake chambers, john chambers, john cullum, keystone, King, mordred, moses carver, odetta, oy, Oz, patrick danville, richard sayre, roland, Rose, science fiction, Stephen King, stuttering bill, susannah, thunderclap, todash, Turtle, walter, walter o'dim

borisanne's CBR9 Review No:32 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Science Fiction · Tags: aaron deepneau, Arthur, beam, bear, blue heaven, casse roi russe, cbr9, clearing at the end of the path, crimson king, dandelo, deschain, detta, discordia, dogan, eld, fantasy, fedick, Fiction, gan, gun, Gunslinger, horror, irene tassenbaum, jake chambers, john chambers, john cullum, keystone, King, mordred, moses carver, odetta, oy, Oz, patrick danville, richard sayre, roland, Rose, science fiction, Stephen King, stuttering bill, susannah, thunderclap, todash, Turtle, walter, walter o'dim ·
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