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Do You Guys Wanna Go See a Dead Body?

The Body by Stephen King

February 3, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Here we have another Stephen King story overshadowed by the film adaptation, in this case the 1986 classic Stand by Me. (Side note: you may have noticed by now that I’ve been making my way through the novella collection Different Seasons, which in addition to the three novellas I’ve reviewed so far has a fourth entry which I think is too short to be counted as a separate book.) Anyway, while it’s impossible not to see the movie play out as you read along, King’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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Lessons Learned

Apt Pupil by Stephen King

January 30, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

Stephen King strikes out on an unlikely course in this novella and follows it through all the way to a chilling conclusion. Thirteen-year-old Todd Bowman seems like a perfectly healthy and happy boy. He’s good at sports and does well in school (hence the “apt pupil” descriptor) and his successful, happy parents love him to pieces. After a magazine article piques his interest in the Holocaust, Todd makes a shocking discovery.  A local old-timer is actually a Nazi war-criminal named Dussander living in America under […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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If I Had a Rock Hammer

Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King

January 27, 2021 by jeverett15 Leave a Comment

When I reviewed The Queen’s Gambit I talked about how difficult it can be to read the source material after seeing the adaptation. You can’t help but notice what details were altered or left out entirely and as you’re doing so you evaluate those decisions just as much as you react to the text itself. Well, as you can imagine, that was very much still a problem for me while reading this novella. I’ve seen The Shawshank Redemption a number of times, especially in the […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Stephen King

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Stephen King ·
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Wizard and Glass – Stephen King (1997)

Wizard and Glass by Stephen King

January 25, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Another reread from Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series. I think this is the best of the whole series (which means it’s a bit of a shame getting to it, knowing it marks the height as far as I am concerned. It will be interested if the pull I felt to complete the narrative initially is still here, now I’ve gotten this far). More than anything, this book delivers on the promise of the Gunslinger in a way that none of the others do. That […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Tagged With: Stephen King, wizard and glass

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:41 · Genres: Fantasy · Tags: Stephen King, wizard and glass ·
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A Trip Down the Green Mile

The Green Mile by Stephen King

January 22, 2021 by RachelGraceSanchez 1 Comment

What a depressing book. From start-to-finish, I couldn’t wait to be done. Every turn of the page seemed to bring on a new horror. From squashed mice and executions gone terribly wrong, to evil-hearted characters and an unsatisfactory ending, there was plenty to be upset about. That said, Stephen King’s The Green Mile was no disappointment. Here’s a quick summary, so you know what I’m talking about: Paul Edgecome, a death row correctional officer, is responsible for carrying out the death penalty for those assigned […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: crime, Fiction, Stephen King

RachelGraceSanchez's CBR13 Review No:3 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: crime, Fiction, Stephen King ·
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