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It's difficult for me to parse my feelings on this one. Thoroughly unpleasant characters abound, coupled with copious amounts of racism and stereotypical depictions of the Romani people. At its core, the story is interesting enough, especially with the debt it owes to 1956's The Incredible Shrinking Man, for which King has expressed his love. Despite that seed of potential interest, I left this read with feelings of lingering distaste. 2/5

Nice read that allows the reader to enjoy King without making a huge time investment.

This is only my 2nd Stephen King novel but I feel like he does a wonderful job writing women characters. This book is written as a confession by a murderer, Dolores, who admits to killing her husband as part of her explanation for why she is not responsible for murdering her employer. This is a psychological thriller with a little horror added. https://cannonballread.com/2019/08/carrie-elcicco/

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I really hate giving a King novel anything but a stellar rating. 😕

The first story connects back to the Beam, and it was by far my favorite. I think it set the bar too high for the remaining 4 interconnected stories.

King's look into the Vietnam war and how it changed people was fascinating, but in the end I'm not sure I'll remember much in a few weeks.

It‘s evident that Kings writing style differs with this book; it‘s similar in storyline to Misery - one of my favourite King books. However, this felt mediocre. It did pick up towards the end.

One of the gorier King books I‘ve read; my black heart really enjoyed those parts though. He also writes his female characters unerringly accurate, just as good as if a female author wrote the book.

When we lived in NJ we used to watch this every year during the first snow. Now that we live in SC, we just wait for a cold night! #RIPMartha #borninsincomeonin #losersclub

A tragically quick read. The town of Tarker's Mill is this book's foremost character, and one I hope we'll see return at some point. The monthly format was fun, and I could see it being utilized to great effect if this book were to quadruple in size the way it probably should. This book left me hungry for more, and made me realize what a great werewolf novel King could write if he ever gets a "wild hair" to do so. 5/5

As someone who has very little affinity for cars, I was surprised with how much Christine pulled me in. On its surface, it is indeed a spooky story about a ghostly murder car, but its beating heart is an examination of the dissolution of friendships, and the myriad ways in which that dissolution can hurt and leave lasting scars. Dennis and Leigh make for extremely compelling main characters, and King filled me with creeping unease throughout. 5/5

This was maybe the only book I read in October, but it was still a favorite! I loved the senior main characters.

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I can't stress enough how great this collection was. When the likes of "Apt Pupil" are the weakest in the assemblage, you're dealing with a particularly potent passel of prose. "The Body", with its superb narrative framing and delightfully realistic portrayal of child protagonists might be my favorite of these four, but "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" and "The Breathing Method" aren't far behind. This is a compilation with no fluff. 5/5