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Summary: THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES...
Review: I was a college student at the same time as Stephen and the principals of "Hearts". Now almost 53 I'd forgotten most of the good, bad and ugly of the 60's. If you were in love, or lucky enough to be a C+ college student, or unlucky enough to be drafted after flunking out during the 1960's, "Hearts" will bring back many memories. Thanks Stephen you've worked your magic again!P.S. I ordered a Phil Ochs album from Amazon today. Read "Hearts" and you'll know why!!
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Summary: The first story was good...
Review: ...too bad the rest of the book has nothing to do with Ted and his "low men". Read the first story and the last. The Vietnam war stuff in the middle just seems out of place and has little to do with the outcome. Not one of his best, or even very good.
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Summary: Dark Tower Teaser
Review: This book must've neen written in a hurry, but King has done it again!! "Hearts" was a surprise around every corner. Although the book was just a tease for the "Dark Tower" series, it was very good and recommend it to anyone who loves Stephen King but not demented literature!!Ha-ha.
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Summary: Stephen King triumphs again
Review: King has once again found a great mixture, this being dramatics mixed with horror and suspense and has produced "Hearts in Atlantis." Although not like King's regular works, I think it will stand the test of time as a great novel.
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Summary: the book is lousy
Review: king couldn't decide whether he wanted the book to be a horror story or maudlin ,rambling tale of life in the sixties. Very boring.
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Summary: A Mention Of "The Dark Tower" in Hearts in Atlantis!!!
Review: If you're a fan on the "Dark Tower" series like I am, and just picked up "Hearts in Atlantis" to see what Mr. King has been up to, then you're in for an (albeit small) surprise. On page 225, there is a teeny weeny little allusion to the gunslinger. Here it is for all of you who haven't yet bought the book: "I doubt if the Crimson King will thank you for a meaningless pretty if it interferes with his plans," Ted said. "There is a gunslinger-" "Gunslinger, pah!" "Yet he and his friends have reached the border of the End World," Ted said . . . .end book quotation. You'll have to read the book to catch the rest of it. Well, I'll be nice. Except for this one part. "Do I? I wonder. Until the Beams break, the Dark Tower stands-" Seriously, that's pretty much it. Now, I'm not one to hunt for such things, but I thank Mr. King for throwing it in to check all of those zombified somnambulists!!! Hope you catch it, die-hard fans. We AWAIT the next in the Dark Tower series... One last thing to explain: The first chapter of "Hearts in Atlantis" is called "Low Men in Yellow Coats" and that is who the afore-stated 'Ted' is speaking to before they capture (or is it re-capture?) him. Perhaps these Dickensian "low men" have something to do with the scheme of things? Ah, alas, we must wait to find out. In conclusion, the book was awesome, a real 'trip' (hehe, double entendre ABSOLUTELY intended) from the present day, into the 1960's, and back. Though I am one of the countless millions of so-called blinder-wearing offspring of the "baby-boomer" generation, King still made the war come alive, made it more real than real. Upon banging the book shut, (something first-edition, hardcover books are MADE for) I felt out of place in the world, like the one I just left was too real to NOT be, and the one I lived in now was simply grey and dull; without any semblance of vitality or emotion. And it is only King who can make real life feel as tedious and existance-questioning as if one lived under a Communist regime. Thank you Mr. King. And with all due respect I beg of you to continue the Dark Tower!
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Summary: Creepy!
Review: I love how these five stories are related by both major and minor characters; the reader is forced to remember the minute details that make Stephen King such a great suspense writer. He constantly collides the real and the fantastic and makes one realize the possibility of all things good and evil. The reader is afraid of both the monsters and the men who they unhabit---the monsters being the Vietnam War, paranoia, and even one's own parents. What a great book!
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Summary: Three out of five not bad
Review: I enjoyed the book as a whole. The "Hearts in Atlantis" and "Why we are in Vietnam" were a little weak. The "Men in the Yellow Coats" is one of his best. I liked the connection to the Dark Tower series. I hope we get to see Ted and the little men later down the road.
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Summary: great interplay between stories
Review: I really liked the way the stories worked together ,especially liked Low men in Yellow Coats, and the next story brought me back to working in a record store with all the college kids & their protests.
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Summary: Four out of five (stories) shine
Review: I loved Low Men in Yellow Coats, liked Hearts in Atlantis, enjoyed but was a little puzzled by Blind Willie, liked the last story, & hated Why We're in Viet Nam. I do not like to read about the battles. When I read Nelson DeMille's Word of Honor (an excellent, highly-recommended novel), I skipped over most of the battle scenes except the scene at the hospital. Low Men was the one I could not put down. A fine story and one of King's best. I'm waiting for Dark Tower V.
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