Gwendy's Final Task by Stephen King
The only reason why I am giving this a grudging two stars is because of the Easter eggs to other King works. If not for that, this would barely get a 1. What kills me with this story honestly is that if you have not read the Dark Tower, Castle Rock books, and IT you are going to be totally lost. I ended up just wishing that King had done a last book on the Dark Tower series, or maybe done a third book in […]
Night Shift by Stephen King
Took me long enough to get through this one. But my brain was not in a great place when I started, and I had to wait to read a bunch of freaky-deaky stories until my brain felt better. Which it did over the weekend, and I zoomed through this. Stephen King’s imagination is a wild place, especially Stephen King of fifty years ago (some of these stories were published in the 60’s, even though the book was published in 1978). Some of the stories didn’t […]
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King
So here is a blurb from the first review I saw for this book: “In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?” I was excited when I read the summary of the book. It’s a super weird, but interesting idea. Basically the whole world gets infected by a virus, but only the women are affected. They go to sleep and end up in a cocoon, but […]
Firestarter by Stephen King
Between 1974 and 1984 Stephen King published an astounding 18 books (counting the four novellas published under the name Richard Bachman, later packaged together as The Bachman Books). The sheer output is not the only extraordinary thing. Among those titles are the books most would consider among King’s most iconic: Carrie, ‘salem’s Lot, The Shining, The Stand, The Eyes of the Dragon, The Talisman, Pet Sematary, The Gunslinger, Christine. Next to those iconic works, there are others that are no less great but seem to […]
House of Cards by Stephen King
Once again this is definitely a graphic novel for long time readers of The Dark Tower. No real surprises here, it’s still “The Drawing of the Three” but now we have the big shootout with Eddie/Roland and Balazar and his gang. The main reason why I gave this four stars is once again I don’t like how Roland and Eddie are illustrated in this. Eddie feels/looks too short and not like I had him in my head. I went eh about Roland too. So this […]
The Prisoner by Stephen King
I did get a kick out of seeing The Drawing of the Three in comic form, but how the illustrators drew Roland didn’t gibe with how he looks like in my head. We get more of a complete story in this graphic novel (since we had bits and pieces of Eddie’s story told throughout the series) so that was great to see. I just thought some things could have been drawn out a bit more and don’t know if readers really need this if they […]
