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“into every life a little poop must fall”

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

August 25, 2020 by narfna 4 Comments

There’s something about reading Stephen King that really fuels my creativity. And this was a good collection. The real star of these four novellas is the titular If It Bleeds, a direct sequel to The Outsider, but I think I might have actually liked it better than that book. We get some classic themes from Uncle Stevie here but he adds a modern spin to most of them that was interesting, even if some worked better than others for me. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone — 3.5 […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: danny burstein, holly gibney, horror, if it bleeds, narfna, novellas, speculative, Stephen King, Steven weber, The Outsider, will patton

narfna's CBR12 Review No:101 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Speculative Fiction, Suspense · Tags: danny burstein, holly gibney, horror, if it bleeds, narfna, novellas, speculative, Stephen King, Steven weber, The Outsider, will patton ·
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The first half of this book is excellent, the second half a little less so.

July 9, 2018 by narfna 2 Comments

So I did the audio on this one, and I definitely think that affected my reading, for the better. Will Patton is a good narrator (he’s the same one who narrated the Bill Hodges trilogy). Sometimes books are significantly affected by a good or bad audiobook narrator, so I just wanted to say up front that I think that is going on here for me, and I think you should know that going in. I probably would have been less forgiving without the audio. Some slight […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: crime, horror, mystery, narfna, Stephen King, The Outsider, will patton

narfna's CBR10 Review No:79 · Genres: Audiobooks, Horror, Mystery · Tags: crime, horror, mystery, narfna, Stephen King, The Outsider, will patton ·
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The second Bill Hodges book is a spiritual successor to Misery.

March 17, 2016 by narfna 5 Comments

Finders Keepers had me from page one. It barely even had to flutter its skirts at me before I was hopelessly enamored of it. This probably says more about me than it does the book, but I think it also speaks well of the book. When King is on, he’s on, and with this one he delivers an engaging, tense, and yet emotionally affecting story. For me, it was a nearly perfect reading experience. I really liked Mr. Mercedes when I read it last year. I liked Retired […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Suspense Tagged With: crime, Finders Keepers, narfna, Stephen King, Suspense, the bill hodges trilogy, will patton

narfna's CBR8 Review No:44 · Genres: Audiobooks, Suspense · Tags: crime, Finders Keepers, narfna, Stephen King, Suspense, the bill hodges trilogy, will patton ·
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