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Worek kosci

608 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2021

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Stephen King

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Stephen Edwin King was born the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where his father's family was at the time, and in Stratford, Connecticut. When Stephen was eleven, his mother brought her children back to Durham, Maine, for good. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Other family members provided a small house in Durham and financial support. After Stephen's grandparents passed away, Mrs. King found work in the kitchens of Pineland, a nearby residential facility for the mentally challenged.

Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums.

He met Tabitha Spruce in the stacks of the Fogler Library at the University, where they both worked as students; they married in January of 1971. As Stephen was unable to find placement as a teacher immediately, the Kings lived on his earnings as a laborer at an industrial laundry, and her student loan and savings, with an occasional boost from a short story sale to men's magazines.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. Throughout the early years of his marriage, he continued to sell stories to men's magazines. Many were gathered into the Night Shift collection or appeared in other anthologies.

In the fall of 1971, Stephen began teaching English at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on the weekends, he continued to produce short stories and to work on novels.

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5 reviews
April 7, 2025
To o czym chce wspomnieć na początek to dzięki Ci King za dokładne opisy cycków każdej możliwej kobiecej bohaterki, ale myślę że fabuła by fabułowala i bez tego xd
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Kurde pióro Kinga jest dokurwione ale trochę go odkleiło pod koniec. Mimo to zajebiscie budował całą chronologię, nic nie było przypadkowe, no może poza snem z jarmarkiem (nie wiem co to miało na celu), lodówkowymi literkami (czemu nagle zginęły), co tak w sumie wniosly te całe sowy, kilkoma innymj małymi przewinieniami w fabule no i przede wszystkim: serio ta cała końcówka z tą białą babcią, rodzinny płot twist był dobry, ale wszystko dookoła wydało mi się jakieś takie tandetne, zabiło ten spooky vibe'ik, o co w sumie chodziło z tym Obcym, czemu skoro Sara mogła rzucić klątwę to nie mógł jej rzucić jakikolwiek inny zmarły, śmierć Mattie ig że miała być tutaj elementem groteski na co wskazuje epilog. Ogólnie też trochę nie została rozwiązana sprawa starych mieszkańców TR, czemu na koniec zachowywali się tak dziwnie, ta cała burza na koniec też była taka trochę meh, te zjawy w sumie też trochę weird opisane to mi się nie podobało. Mega szacuneczek za wątek Czarnych Cylindrów, ale opis grupowego gwałtu albo uśmiercania dzieci na pewno nie do przejścia dla niektórych czytelników. W sumie książka przedstawiła świat jako pełen bardzo okrutnych i obrzydliwy h mężczyzn, z pewnoscią byl to po czesxi zamierzony zabieg, ale spermiarstwo glownego bohatera (a byc moze po prostu Kinga) chyba pogorszylo cala sytuację i wydalo mi sie dosc nieodpowiednie dla fabuly, no chyba ze glowny bohater tez mial sie wydac nam taki słodko-gorzki. Mimo wszystko dobrze się bawiłam i co najważniejsze, powieść dostarczyła mi dużo emocji, niezawsze pozytywnych ale jednak lepsze to niż nijakość!
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196 reviews
December 16, 2023
Stephen ja nie wiem co ty bierzesz ale bierz połowe mniej (2,5⭐)
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119 reviews
July 2, 2024
Welcome to the jungle. It was pretty good but not as good as Stephen’s other books.
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