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Summary: All Hail The King!
Review: How does King do it? Four exciting stories in one chilling book. The most famous "Langoliers" is a great start followed by three different awesome stories. Fans of this book will love "Skeleton Crew" ,"Nightmares and Dreamscapes", and "Night Shift". The King has made big bucks to scare the heck out of the world. Keep it up King
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Summary: An incredible story - twisted, intense, and mysterious.
Review: This book blew me away! It was a very ingenious story, yet twisted by the mind of Stephen King. I became a fan after reading it. His characters were so real (which Stephen King has a talent for creating). You couldn't help but place yourself in their shoes. When I read a few other novels by King, I found that I was on the edge of my seat, of course. But, the mystery and story of the book could never compare to one in The Langoliers. It was colorful (in that Stephen King story of way) and a classic to add to a collection. I'd recommend it to anyone
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Summary: Excellent reading!
Review: Upon reading this book, once you pick it up you won't want to put it down. With the exception of "The Sun Dog", which was slow going, the stories read quick and easy, with style and flair. Another great work from the master, Stephen King, who has no equal
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Summary: A book fit for a "KING"
Review: I FOUND THAT THIS BOOK WAS SO INTERESTING I JUST COULDN'T PUT DOWN AT NIGHT, I JUST KEPT READING, LITERALLY UNTIL AROUND THREE OR FOUR IN THE MORNING. I TOOK THIS BOOK ON MY VACATION WITH ME AND SAT BY THE POOL READING IT. I READ IT IN JUST OVER FIVE DAYS.
THIS BOOK WAS THE FIRST STEPHEN KING BOOK THAT I'VE EVER READ AND SINCE THEN I'VE READ FIFTEEN DIFFERENT. MY FAVOURITE STILL BEING THIS ONE.
JUST BY READING THE BACK OF THE BOOK YOU CAN TELL IT WAS WRITTEN BY STEPHEN KING. I LOVE HORROR AND THAT IS WHAT THIS BOOK IS. IT WAS HORROR BUT NOT TOO GORY. I READ THIS BOOK THREE TIMES ALREADY AND WILL PROBABLY READ IT AGAIN.
IT IS DEFINATELY A BOOK YOU SHOULD READ IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
I RECOMMEND IT TO ANY STEPHEN KING OR NON STEPHEN KING FAN.
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Summary: 4PM, extremely reccommended
Review: Very good, for the price. 4 books in one. The first story is quite thrilling. THe Langoliers. Unlike any Stephen King work I've read. (trust me, I've read a whole lot!)
Here are some quotes from famous organizations about it. "These stories grab and don't let go"- Washington Post
"Chilling"- Milwaukee Journal
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Summary: Four Past Midnight, Four worth reading.
Review: With the exception of the last story, which was rather slow and a little forced, I enjoyed the majority of the stories immensely. Secret Window Secret garden stands out in my mind as perhaps the strongest, but the Library Policeman is a worthy rival. Don't discount the Langoliers though, it was a somewaht diffrent story for King, and told in a Roccocco style
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Summary: My first King book... now I'm hooked.
Review: A couple o' months ago, I decided to start reading Stephen King. I felt one of his huge, ponderous tomes like "It" or "The Stand" would be a little overwhelming at first, so I picked up this volume with its 4 stories.Wow! "Langoliers"- The 2nd best in the book. This book was great, but I never really understood the whole "Timekeepers of Eternity" thing. Rating: 9 out of 10. "Secret Window, Secret Garden"- The worst in the book, but still great. I guessed the split personality thing about 50 pages in. Rating: 6 out of 10. "The Library Policeman"- The best in the book! Not only a great horror story, but there's some humor, too. It contains the best line in the book "Consider it a gift from me, the Prince of Piggly Wiggly, to you, the Lord of Licorice, on a rainy Monday evening." Rating: 100 out of 10. "Sun Dog"- The 3rd best. A bit slow, but it's better than "Secret Window, Secret Garden." Rating: 7 out of 10.
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Summary: excellent book
Review: This book I would recommend to everybody who hasn't read it, because the stories in there are very interesting. The only irony about this book is that there ends up having murder scenes at the end of each part of the book.There is also lots of good points of view from everybody that's in the story, including the persons in "The Langoliers," where they tell what happened as they went through a rip in time. What I liked about each story is how much murder scenes there are in each story. What I didn't like in each story was how they got killed. There was not a lot of foreshadowing, so I cannot describe it as clearly.
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Summary: Four novellas
Review: Like "Different seasons", "Four past midnight" is a book featuring four stories that were too long to be considered short stories and too short to be considered full books. Bur while "Different seasons" can be considered a "lighter" book by Stephen King standards, "Four past midnight" is a comeback to King's earlier darker, fantastic stories. The main problem with this book is that Stephen King is, in my opinion, a great author concering character development. But these developments usually take time, chapter, and pages. King's short stories are almost always a step down from his lenghtier works. "Four past midnight" is no exception. The four premises are good, but every time I finished a story I felt there was something lacking in it. "The langoliers" - the most fantastic story in the "Four past midnight", about a plane that goes through a rip in time. This is the story with the best premise, and with the most developed characters, so it is the best story in the book. Graphic descriptions, deaths, thrilling, a good work. 8.0 "Secret window" - this is the basic plot of the recent movie with Johnny Depp. I had high expectations, bu I was let down. It's a simple story, and a little bit obvious. This is an example that, if King should have chosen to develop the plot further, we could end up with a terrific book. The way it is, I didn't like very much. 6.5 "The library policeman" - Once again, a plot dealing with fantasy and terror. This story has all the elements to be great, bu t it isn't. When I read it, it became very clear to me that Stephen King started to write one story and ended up with another. The beginning has an almost comic style (as opposed to the somber ending), and there are many characters that were intended to be bigger parts in the plot, but were left aside after the initial chapters. It's cool to see that a story may have a life on its own, but I think in this case there could have been more editing to it. Also, the final is too rushed. This story has too many elements is too few pages. 7.0 "The sun dog" - this could be the best story in the book, because the initial plot was really great. It's about a malfunctioning Polaroid camera, and a ferocious dog that appears in every photograph taken with it. This is the kind of idea that makes SK one of my favorite authors, but, as happens with the previous two stories, "The sun dog" lacks strenght in the end. 7.5 So, "Four past midnight" is a good collection of short stories, but Stephen King has written many better books than this one. Grade 7.5
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Summary: A good title, and an even greater book!
Review: In the process of wrapping up a Dean Koontz novel, I ran across this Novella by Stephen King at Amazon. Thinking about the title, which gives an eerie essence to the book right away, I decided to purchase it. Stephen King had always delivered to me in the past, and I figured, why stop reading there?
As a fourteen year old, it's hard to understand where writers come up with their ideas, but with a help from Stephen King and this book, I have found the writer within myself. By starting stories now while I'm young, I can publish them when I grow old, and hope to become the substitute master of horror when he's gone. Even my aunt, who is a huge Stephen King fan, finds some of my stories to send chills up her spine, and she was truthful too, she said I still wasn't as good as Stephen King (duh!).
Anyway, back to the book, I must say I haven't read the last two stories, but am in the process of reading through the library policeman, which is already leaving an impact on me in the first few chapters (I always used to go to the library. It was kinda like my retreat of the day). But as for the first two books The Langoliers, and Secret Window, Secret Garden, I can honestly say, I am impressed. They give you this sense of fear, sending chills down your spine every now and then, but mostly telling you that something is there that you need to be aware about.
The langoliers gives you the truth about time travel, and that time isn't changable, no matter how much you want it to be, due to the fact that the present has been moved into the next dimension. But what happens to the past you may ask? You'll find out soon enough.
Secret Window, Secret Garden may sound more like a skeptical title than a horror story, but be that as it may, even through the writings of writer, Mort Rainey, we will find that even he can have the worst of fears, which aren't always supernatural, but as normal as can be when you look at it a certain way.
If you don't enjoy the last two, you'll enjoy the first two that's for sure. I know I did. The movies to the first two aren't nearly as good as the books themselves, and should've been left alone in my opinion, but hey, sometimes it's neat to find out how close to the book they did actually follow. Keep em' coming Stephen King.
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