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“On Slide Inn Road” – ⭐️⭐️ – Ugh, another Gen Z child calling a comic book a “funnybook”. Also, another crime story?
“Red Screen” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Thought this was going to be yet ANOTHER crime noir offering, but a nice little twist pulls this back into more familiar territory.
More than halfway through, and this overall doesn’t feel particularly dark.
— Jul 19, 2024 09:06AM
“Red Screen” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Thought this was going to be yet ANOTHER crime noir offering, but a nice little twist pulls this back into more familiar territory.
More than halfway through, and this overall doesn’t feel particularly dark.
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“The Dreamers” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 – Probably the best story of the book, but even here it felt like it could have been … darker.
“The Answer Man” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Starts off pretty good then tapers off into a mini-biography of a guy we don’t care about. You can almost feel the point where the part King wrote in the ‘70s turns into the one he wrote in 2023.
— Jul 27, 2024 03:50PM
“The Answer Man” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Starts off pretty good then tapers off into a mini-biography of a guy we don’t care about. You can almost feel the point where the part King wrote in the ‘70s turns into the one he wrote in 2023.
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“The Turbulence Expert” – ⭐️ – Literally nothing happens except a “middle aged” woman talks about the internet like she’s 75.
“Laurie” – ⭐️⭐️ – Whenever King sets a story in the Keys, you know it’s going to be slow and include far too much mundane detail about the geography of the place.
“Rattlesnakes” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – A Cujo sequel with nice creepy moments.
— Jul 27, 2024 03:46PM
“Laurie” – ⭐️⭐️ – Whenever King sets a story in the Keys, you know it’s going to be slow and include far too much mundane detail about the geography of the place.
“Rattlesnakes” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – A Cujo sequel with nice creepy moments.
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“Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Some of King’s best writing in this century, reminiscent of the first half of The Outsider. Not really horror at all, but a propulsive crime novella with a supernatural twist that I couldn’t stop reading.
“Finn” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Pretty good, but it’s another non-horror story. I DO like it darker, but does King anymore?
— Jul 15, 2024 06:06AM
“Finn” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Pretty good, but it’s another non-horror story. I DO like it darker, but does King anymore?
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Story-by-story review:
1. “The Talented Bastids” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Not a bad story, though it feels unnecessarily long for a pretty obvious payoff.
2. “The Fifth Step” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Short and a nasty twist, reminiscent of classic King stories like “The Library Policeman.”
3. “Willie the Weirdo” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 – Another telegraphed twist, but executed well.
— Jul 13, 2024 08:40PM
1. “The Talented Bastids” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Not a bad story, though it feels unnecessarily long for a pretty obvious payoff.
2. “The Fifth Step” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Short and a nasty twist, reminiscent of classic King stories like “The Library Policeman.”
3. “Willie the Weirdo” – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 – Another telegraphed twist, but executed well.