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The Outsider by Stephen King

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A young boy is found violated and viciously murdered in a small town in the American heartland. Police inspector Ralph Anderson soon finds his prime suspect: baseball trainer Terry Maitland has been seen by multiple witnesses, his clothes covered in blood. His fingerprints are all over the place. Ralph, sure he has the right man, goes in to arrest Terry in front of the entire town. The only problem is that Terry seems to have an iron-clad alibi. So why was he in two places […]

Annie are You Okay, Are you Okay Annie?

Misery by Stephen King

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I am a professed Stephen King fan, and one of my don’t call it a goal, but it is like a goal, for 2024 was to read more of his backlist.  I have been avoiding Misery for many years because I like reading more about monsters that are supernatural vs. monsters that are evil people. But 2024 is the year I decided I would give it a chance and overall I am glad that I did. The plot of Misery is that author Paul Sheldon […]

Stephen King’s sprawling historical time-travel epic

11/22/63 by Stephen King

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At work I have a Book Friend who reads mostly horror. He gives me horror recommendations, and I give him sci-fi recommendations, and we both try to enjoy each other’s genre of choice, to varying success. At the other’s insistence, we have both read genre staples without being convinced of their universal relevance (though I have more right to feel aggrieved about this arrangement because Slaughterhouse Five was like 250 pages and It was fucking 1,200 pages, Dorian). It was not for me. I finished It, because I’m a […]

King’s Dozen

You Like It Darker by Stephen King

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You Like It Darker is a collection of twelve short stories by horror master Stephen King. Five of the stories are being published for the first time, while the other seven previously ran in magazines or on King’s websites. All twelve stories were new to me. The collection’s title would seem to indicate that King has ratcheted up his penchant for the macabre, but if anything I thought he used an ironically light touch for most of the twelve stories. Though there are of course […]

“Go then, there are other worlds than these.

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) by Stephen King

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I rated this four stars the first time I read it. I think that was because I hadn’t read the rest of the series yet, and now that I have in my head what this series can really do when it’s going, this one just feels a little anemic in comparison. Also, it’s such a weird book that I didn’t know what to make of it at the time, but I can see what he’s doing now that I’ve read the rest of it. In […]

“Imagination is hungry, and needs to be fed.”

You Like It Darker by Stephen King

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I have long maintained that, for me, Stephen King’s short stories and novellas hit harder than most of his books. I just like them more; they are snappier. While I do enjoy taking my 1,000-plus-page journey to Derry in IT, sometimes it’s nicer to have a story come in, do its thing, and then leave. You Like It Darker is Stephen King’s latest short story collection and is a mix of previously published stories (something I did not realize until I was like, “Wait… have […]



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