Pet Sematary by Stephen King
I’m fighting with my brain on this one because this is the first time in a while that I can appreciate a Stephen King book and it’s craft and storytelling, but not *love* the results. This is the kind of book that made me think for years that I didn’t like horror. I do like horror, as it turns out, and it’s a much more diverse genre than I previously thought. But this is the kind of book I’m never going to love, even though […]
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
I’ve owned this book for 20 years probably, and I think this was my third read through. It is a collection of short stories and some of King’ s earliest work, and the stories are of widely varying quality. Some made me roll my eyes, some left me indifferent, and some were gripping, but there is one I dislike immensely, and two that I kind of love. The one I dislike is the well-known and apparently popular “The Mist”, which takes up about 150 pages […]
The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
The Colorado Kid is one of Stephen King’s three entries in the Hard Case Crime series. These Hard Case Crime books are throwbacks to 1950-ish pulpy novels, which at the time they initially came out cost the same as a movie ticket. They even come with the slightly unseemly painted covers of yore. (The HCC books, like the books they’re based on, are roughly the same cost as a movie ticket, which kind of stinks because movies are expensive!!) Colorado Kid sounds like it would […]
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
The kingdom of Delain is ruled by a mediocre king getting up there in years. He has two sons: Peter, who is virtuous and clever, and Thomas, who is lazy and resentful. Fortunately for the kingdom, Peter is the elder son and set to assume the throne. Unfortunately for everyone, the king’s chief advisor and court magician, a mysterious, hooded figure named Flagg, has other ideas. Through his machinations and misdeeds, Flagg manages to poison the king and place the blame squarely on Peter’s shoulders. […]
Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King
The only reason why I am giving this a grudging two stars is because of the Easter eggs to other King works. If not for that, this would barely get a 1. What kills me with this story honestly is that if you have not read the Dark Tower, Castle Rock books, and IT you are going to be totally lost. I ended up just wishing that King had done a last book on the Dark Tower series, or maybe done a third book in […]
Night Shift by Stephen King
Took me long enough to get through this one. But my brain was not in a great place when I started, and I had to wait to read a bunch of freaky-deaky stories until my brain felt better. Which it did over the weekend, and I zoomed through this. Stephen King’s imagination is a wild place, especially Stephen King of fifty years ago (some of these stories were published in the 60’s, even though the book was published in 1978). Some of the stories didn’t […]
