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I have to say, I don't really "get" this book. The...what do I call them, I don't watch reality TV...contestants?...participants?...of the compound keep saying how they came to the compound to have a good time, but these people are miserable and life on the compound is very cutthroat and seems like a living hell. Maybe that's part of the point of this book but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me regardless.

Dreamers

Green fog

Tabloid haystacks squat. Emptied trash cans skid to anchor corners. Shopkeepers retract metal gates that repel burglars from merchandise unworthy of theft. All this metal grinding, this is the machine of morning reaching out through cogs and gears to claim and wake us.

If retaliation is your fear, know this—I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against the law, and an ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of the statutes.

Every woman in Salem being addressed as "Goody", with one having the last name Good, resulting in the hilarious, though not intended as such, name of Goody Good.

Are you Good, Goody? Yes, I am Good. Well that's Good. Good. Goody. Good. Goody. Praise Jesus.

Forces of darkness

Comrade Colonel Rosa Klebb ☭ 🚩

Banco

SPECTRE

A plan to rob Fort Knox

Oddjob 🎩

The Game Is Baccarat

SMERSH

James Bond getting bit by a barracuda 🦈

The Silver Phantom

Mr. Big

(Sounds like a villain name from a porno 🤔)

Dear Stephen King, please stop writing these dreadful Holly Gibney books. She is by far your most overrated character. Sincerely, a disenchanted fan.

Trig

Only 50 pages in and King has already mentioned COVID, vaccinations, and Donald Trump numerous times. This is giving me vibes of the previous book in this series, Holly, where he beat the reader over the head with these politicized references and outright PSAs for the entire book. Not a good sign...

Bigfoot

Alien diplomacy

This story is kind of going nowhere. Suuuuper boring. Nothing at all really happening.

How to Be a Groovy Witch

The Sharp Cereal Professor

Abusive husbands and adulterous wives

This is pretty good so far! Surprisingly, it has almost nothing to do with Cujo up to this point. He's maybe been on ten pages out of the first fifty. It's more about the people in the town and their lives, struggles, and relationships. But the writing is good enough that it still works.

The stories in this collection are very "meh" so far.