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Ennen aamunkoittoa

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Astu sisään Stephen Kingin maailmaan – maailmaan jossa viattominkaan ei ole turvassa, maailmaan jossa arkisinkin paikka saattaa muuttua paholaisen leikkikentäksi, maailmaan joka ei päästä otteestaan ennen aamunkoittoa.

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Sisältää tarinat:
Jumalten tekstinkäsittelylaite (Word Processor of the Gods, 1983)
Mies, joka ei kätellyt (The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, 1981)
Rantaelämää (Beachworld, 1985)
Viikatemiehen kuva (The Reaper's Image, 1969)
Nona (Nona, 1978)
Owenille (For Owen, 1985)
Eloonjäävää tyyppiä (Survivor Type, 1982)
Otto-sedän kuorma-auto (Uncle Otto's Truck, 1983)
Aamujakeluita (Maitomies n:o 1) (Morning Deliveries (Milkman 1), 1985)
Katsastus (Maitomies n:o 2) (Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman 2), 1980)
Isoäiti (Gramma, 1984)
Balladi joustavasta luodista (The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, 1984)
Ulappa (The Reach, 1985)

313 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

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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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2 reviews
March 6, 2024
Kelpo novellikokoelma jonka luki mielellään kerran läpi. Ei välttämättä mitään ehdotonta klassikkokamaa mutta muutaman tarinan haluaisin nostaa esille.

"Eloonjäävää tyyppiä" oli ihan kiehtova kuvaus ylimielisen oloisesta kaverista joka vaikuttaisi kaikissa elämäntilanteissa tekevän mitä hyvänsä pysyäkseen ainakin omissa kirjoissaan tilanteen herrana vaikka se lopulta tekisi hänenkin elämästään käytännössä sietämätöntä kärsimystä.

"Otto-sedän kuorma-auto" taas hieman humoristisella otteellaan kuvasi karun oloisesti sitä millaista on sivusta seurata kun terve järki pakenee päästä ja pakkomielle ottaa niskalenkin ihmisestä.

"Isoäiti" piti hyvin jännityksessä ihan siltä pohjalta että oikein missään vaiheessa ei voinut varmasti sanoa ovatko tapahtumat todellisia vai pelkkää pienen pojan mielikuvitusta. Todella samaistuttavaa tekstiä.

Lopuksi "Ulappa" oli samaan aikaan kaihoisa, kaunis ja hiuksia nostattava tarina elämän ehtoosta joka on myöhemmin saateetu myös valkokankaalle. Menee ehdottomasti katselulistalle sillä kuvittelin jo tarinaa lukiessani että tämä toimisi varmaan hienosti myös elokuvana.
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November 8, 2021
"Hänen hiuksensa olivat yleensä isoilla vihreillä papiljoteilla vihreän sifonkihuivin alla. Se sai hänen päänsä näyttämään futuristiselta AM/AF-radiolta."

Tää oli huonoin Kingin novellikokoelma, jonka olen lukenut. Jumalten tekstinkäsittelylaiteessa oli hyvä idea ja eloonjäävää tyyppiä rajumpi versio Robinson Crusoesta. Muuten aika keskinkertaista kamaa.
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