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You don’t see what’s right in front of your eyes, she said, but sometimes he did.

Just After Sunset by Stephen King

June 6, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Stephen King story and novella collection (that comes on the heels of another collection not that long before) from 2006. In the intro he says he “doesn’t write that many short stories anymore” which is funny because he’s published like 10 short fiction collections at about 500 pages each or longer. But regardless. This collection has a few longer novella length books like “The Gingerbread Girl” where a woman takes to an almost obsessive running habit as her marriage collapses in the wake of […]

Coming to a hospital near you…

The Stand by Stephen King

May 19, 2020 by kniki 2 Comments

Why would you read a book about a fictional pandemic when there’s an actual pandemic happening, people ask? I think it’s perfect timing. I spent the first several chapters comparing the beginning of the made-up super-flu pandemic of 1990 to the current world wide spread of COVID-19, diligently jotting down notes about what the president of the USA said (for example, ‘My fellow Americans, I urge you to stay at home. If you feel ill, stay in bed, take aspirin, and drink plenty of clear […]

My home town was just a village of six hundred or so…

If It Bleeds by Stephen King

Rat by Stephen King

Mr Harrigan's Phone by Stephen King

The Life of Chuck by Stephen King

April 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Somehow I didn’t even know this was going to be a novellas collection, and I think after reading The Institute last week after waiting a few months to get to it, I am glad for this kind of book instead of another long novel. Mostly this is a solid collection that I don’t think actually works great for new readers. I think they should read his previous novel first. This collection will work for everyone on the Stephen King bi-annual plan, and that’s not a bad […]

Half an hour after Tim Jamieson’s flight was scheduled to leave Tampa for the bright lights and tall buildings of New York, it was still parked at the gate.

The Institute by Stephen King

Apt Pupil by Stephen King

April 29, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Institute – 4/5 Stars I really liked this one! For whatever reason this one kept getting criticized in ways that made me push reading it for a few months (I’ve had the Audiofiles since the week it came out), but I could tell in the opening chapter, the book was going to settle into itself slowly in ways that I’ve liked Stephen King’s longer books to do. If this book were 1000 pages I would still like it. The last act speeds up a […]

A Creepy Book About Supernatural Kids? Sign Me Up!

The Institute by Stephen King

April 18, 2020 by Rachel Leave a Comment

Stephen King never disappoints me. The Institute is well-written, engaging, mysterious, slightly creepy, and upsetting. King is a master at developing characters and making us care deeply about them. Then he develops new sets of characters and brings everyone together for an amazing plot. But smarter people e have written about King’s works, so I will stop. But he always impresses me. We start with a former cop turned drifter who ends up in a small town working on a railroad. Nothing to see here, […]

Why Don’t We Get Together and Call Ourselves an Institute?

The Institute by Stephen King

March 10, 2020 by jeverett15 2 Comments

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Stephen King’s new novel is a compelling read with a dynamite premise which unfortunately peters out into a weak ending. King really takes his time setting up this one. The first section follows an ex-cop named Tim on an itinerant journey around the south before settling down in small-town South Carolina. After Tim gets established we’re on to the story of the Institute, and it’s hundred of pages before we find out how Tim figures into it. Child […]

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