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Letter Slot by Owen King

Letter Slot by Owen King

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Not a bad short story, but one that I have read before in different ways. Stephen King has done a ton of short stories about being careful what you wish for, so this felt very King-like. Of course it makes sense when you know who Owen King is (Stephen King’s son). I think that King could have changed it up a bit by showing a different/darker ending. I thought that is where he was headed, but instead we get something different. I don’t know, it […]

wtf was this book?? anyone else?

The Curator by Owen King

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This book has one of the lowest average ratings on Goodreads I’ve ever seen*; it’s currently sitting at a 3.01, where anything under 3.5 is considered low, and anything under 3.25 is pretty dire. You see a rating like that and your first instinct is, “Whoa, what’s going on here??” And honestly, I understand it. I read this book back in March (it is now late June) and I’m still not sure if I even liked it. It is an extremely weird reading experience with […]

I started this book on a plane, and it got me through takeoff and landing. Those are the pros…

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

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So here is a blurb from the first review I saw for this book: “In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?” I was excited when I read the summary of the book.  It’s a super weird, but interesting idea.  Basically the whole world gets infected by a virus, but only the women are affected.  They go to sleep and end up in a cocoon, but […]

Reminded Me of Under the Dome…Not a Good Reference Point

Sleeping Beauties by Owen King

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I don’t know what to say here besides this new Stephen/Owen King mash-up was disappointing. I read “Under the Dome” eons ago and I really wish that my Amazon review had been pushed to Goodreads. I recall that I was flabbergasted that no one had reigned in King since that book was 1,074 freaking pages. I read that over two days back in 2009 when I was traveling to Afghanistan for work and recall that at one point I was awake for two days just […]

Sleeping for a while doesn’t sound that bad …

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The characters and overall plot line of Sleeping Beauties will be familiar to most Stephen King readers.  While he hasn’t explored a world without women before, he has made a career of looking at small towns facing extreme circumstances and using those small towns to stand in for society as a whole.  In some ways, this novel reminded me of Under the Dome, both in how isolated or confined the setting felt and in the way that the community quickly splintered and divided. As the news […]

Everyone is apparently legally required to review this book

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Sleeping Beauties – 3/5 – SPOILERS by the Way So this has a fable quality to it, obviously. But in a lot of ways, this is like an episode of Star Trek (a Q episode specifically), where the small town created King squared become a stand-in for all humanity. In the same way that the Starship Enterprise becomes the crucible for the humanity and morality of all mankind, the small town of Dooling, West Virginia becomes the crucible for all MAN-kind! Boom! Punned. But in […]



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