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Bobby Garfield’s father who been one of those fellows who starting losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by forty-five or so.

Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

September 23, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Maybe’s it’s because I’ve been watching Cobra Kai, and maybe it’s just because it’s my childhood, but for two weeks after reading this, I’ve been singing this song over and over: https://youtu.be/swo51-CG9Ss Despite all claims that this is a collection of stories, I would call it a novel. The stories are linked, but so many novels tell different parts of the story in different voices, with different tones, and differently connected ideas and themes. If A Visit from the Goon Squad or Cloud Atlas are […]

I guess I have a Cannonball – even though most of my reviews are of short stories.

The Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

Harrison Squared by Daryl Gregory

Apt Pupil by Stephen King

Morality by Stephen King

September 19, 2020 by ingres77 7 Comments

Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle (3.5 stars) Pierre Boulle published two dozen novels in his lifetime – but he is most famous for the semi-autobiographical The Bridge over the River Kwai and this franchise creating science fiction story from 1963. We’re all familiar with the basic story, right? A group of scientists board a ship bound for Betelgeuse (the second brightest star in the constellation of Orion, after Rigel). Due to traveling near the speed of light, centuries pass on Earth. When they […]

Cat of Four Tales

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

August 31, 2020 by jeverett15 5 Comments

This is a collection of short fiction without any real connection between pieces, so it’s probably best to review them individually: Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is kind of a rarity in that it’s a “period piece” set in the early 2000s around the time of the introduction of the iPhone. The narrator is an adult looking back on his middle school days, when a retired billionaire moved into town and hired him to read to him after school. The title object is a gift from the […]

“into every life a little poop must fall”

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

August 25, 2020 by narfna 4 Comments

There’s something about reading Stephen King that really fuels my creativity. And this was a good collection. The real star of these four novellas is the titular If It Bleeds, a direct sequel to The Outsider, but I think I might have actually liked it better than that book. We get some classic themes from Uncle Stevie here but he adds a modern spin to most of them that was interesting, even if some worked better than others for me. Mr. Harrigan’s Phone — 3.5 […]

Hey, No Arnold!

The Running Man by Stephen King

July 22, 2020 by jeverett15 2 Comments

I know it’s not great cinema, but I’ve always had a weakness for the movie The Running Man, in which Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as a framed convict selected for a sadistic game show. I legitimately think Richard Dawson’s performance as the game show host is one of my favorites. The book, originally published under Stephen King’s infamous pen name Richard Bachman, is quite different from the movie. While Ben Richards is still pushed into appearing on the nation’s most popular game show, here it is […]

It became their motto, and Jonsey couldn’t for the life of him remember which of them started saying it first.

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

July 17, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR 12 Bingo – Adaptation So I chose this one for Adaptation, because I watched it late night on tv and thought it was a truly, truly terrible movie. And it is! It’s really awful. The book is also not great exactly, but it had some goals that the movie just seemed to shunt off into nothing. So this book has that issue that a lot of Stephen King books do for me: fully realized and interesting characters and nonsensical or undeveloped central conceit. […]

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