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Probably one of my top ten favorite Kings?

The Dark Half by Stephen King

August 22, 2022 by narfna 1 Comment

Okay, now that I’ve slept on this a couple of days, I think my final thoughts are that this is a nearly perfect horror novel (hence the 4.5 stars, rounded up). I say nearly because there were a couple of moments that really didn’t age well. But most of it still holds up unbelievably well. The more SK books I’ve read, the more my (obvious) theory—that he is often at his best when he’s writing about writers—holds true. The Dark Half was notably written after Uncle […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: horror, narfna, pseudonyms, Stephen King, the dark half

narfna's CBR14 Review No:138 · Genres: Horror · Tags: horror, narfna, pseudonyms, Stephen King, the dark half ·
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I’m a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don’t read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

August 31, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

On Writing – 3/5 Stars I am late to the game on this one. I picked it up looking for some potential sections to share with my Dual Enrollment English 12 classes this fall and we begin the school year, and while I think there’s plenty of good material in here for that, the language alone (the casual sexism to boot) makes it tough. But for me the biggest issue with sharing this book with my students is that I just don’t think it would […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Non-Fiction Tagged With: on writing, Stephen King, the dark half

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:327 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Non-Fiction · Tags: on writing, Stephen King, the dark half ·
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