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Summary: King still has it
Review: Well, one can say King still has it, but in truth, who knows how old some of these stories may be? I haven't trusted King's "new" material since the safe deposit box trick he "reveals" in "Bag of Bones" ... does King, like "Bag's" main character, just keep stories in a safe deposit box and pull them out when he needs to be published or is everything new and fresh? I am not sure, but whatever the case, "Everything's Eventual" is one of King's best short story collections. King's real strength comes through when he is writing a streamlined short story or novella. His novels are wonderful although the ones with the bigger vision: Needful Things, The Stand The Dark Tower series just don't encapsulate how great and clever a writer this man has truly become.Some criticize King, now calling him a "New Yorker baby". And what's wrong with that? If "The New Yorker" can recognize that King has just as much talent and flair for telling a story as the best literary writers out there, I would just say, "What took them so darn long?" This new collection is a great mix of King's attention to details and landscape, as well as the stuff that can really scare us. One of the most effective short stories is "The Man in the Black Suit" which literally gave me the willies. (If the willies are indeed a literal thing.) As a young boy terrified of the devil, this story brought back all my childhood fears. "Riding the Bullet" and "The Road Virus Heads North" show that King has not lost any of his talent for the macabre. These two tales in particular would not have been out of place in earlier short story collections such as "Night Shift" or "Skeleton Crew". King does stumble some with a few of his tales: the buildup to "1408" ends up being much scarier than the actual events in the haunted hotel room. This is a case where less would have been more. "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" just seems a bit motiveless and never achieves any sense of denouement, and "L.T.'s Theory of Pets", as others have pointed out in their reviews, just seems to go nowhere and instead of being a "just so" story, is a "so what?" story. Despite the few drawbacks, King still writes intelligent fiction, he is high and above any of his contemporaries in popular fiction. This is the reason he has lasted so long. His recent musings on retirement have me alarmed, but it's good to know he hasn't stopped yet.
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Summary: A Chiller!
Review: First and foremost, King did not use a deck of cards to select the order of these stories. That is just a gimmick. The arrangement is just too...perfect. The lead-in story, "Autopsy Room Four" is written from the point of view of a living corpse, a man who's alive in every sense of the word, but the doctors don't realize it. In a sense, you are being dragged into this macabre collection of stories like the man on the gurney. You want to scream, you want to pull your fingers away from the pages, dreading the next horror that awaits, but you can't. King has you hook, line and sinker. And he doesn't let go! I have to admit that I didn't much like "The Man in the Black Suit" and agreed with King's own assessment of the story. It's just an update of the old folk story with a few Kingism's thrown in there. But the pace quickly picks up with the haunting "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" and the last three tales, "1408", "Riding the Bullet" and "Luckey Quarter" will have you sleeping with the lights on. "Everything's Eventual" is far superior to "Nightmare's and Dreamscapes" and is, as a whole, perhaps one of King's finest works. It's not just a great work of horror fiction but a fine example of the art of short story writing.
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Summary: Don't Slay Me; Not the King Standard of Excellence
Review: First and foremost, I'm an avid King fan with every book in hardcover splendor but Everything's Eventual is filled with only 2 stories that I consider up to the maximum King "Chill Factor". Upon completion of many of the stories, I was left with a "that's all?" question on my lips and feeling as if the story came up short of the normal vivid terror, angst, and surprise factor so prevalent in his works. I can't quite put my finger on it, and I would still encourage the purchase of this particular volume, but the stories included within did not stack up against a classic such as Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Just wanted to be honest with the review and hoping that the King short story magic returns with a future volume.
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Summary: Steve doing what he does best
Review: I think Stephen King writes best in short story form. Too often, his regular-sized novels get muddled halfway through the story, and I have a hard time figuring out the whys and wherefores. But with this book, he delivers crisp clear short stories that are totally enjoyable and even scary, which I find has been missing from most of his books in the past 10 years. I loved virtually every page of this book.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: I was sorely disappointed with King's first collection of shorts in a decade. It appeared to me that King is running short on ideas and has resorted to recycling old plot lines; "1408" seemed to be a cut apart version of "The Shining".
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Summary: MUST BUY
Review: THIS HAS TO BE STEPHEN KING'S BEST WORK YET.IT'S A MUST HAVE FOR STEPHEN KING TRUE FANS.AND IT'S A GOOD ONE TO START YOUR COLLECTION
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Summary: Not much good to say about this one...
Review: I'll keep it brief. This is not a good book. King's stories are not very intriguing, and after each one, I kept hoping the next would be better-- never really happened. There are a couple that keep you turning the pages, but NONE that leave you with that satisfied feeling of having read something excellent. The best story, in my opinion, is "Riding the Bullet," but King released this one a while ago, and I had already read it. I don't think anyone should make any profound statements about changes in the quality of King's writing-- every author has his/her good & bad books. This is just one of the bad ones.
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Summary: Okay, I guess, but still the worst of King's I've read.
Review: I'm not a fan of the horror genre and I've only read 5 or 6 King books. But I've enjoyed them all and think King is a great writer, one of the best I've read. His short story collection has both pros and cons. If a story doesn't sound interesting, you can skip it. I skipped two in this collection because they just didn't interest me. King proves he has a vivid imagination with this collection yet some stories began to run together when they are all based in Maine. King isn't a writer who has a big climax at the end of his stories or novels. He excels at giving the reader a great story and characters over several 100 pages. In these short stories, King doesn't have the time to develop plot and characters and this since the climaxes aren't surprises or twists, some of his short stories end with a whimper. Still, I enjoyed this collection because I was able to finish each story in a short amount of time and move onto the next one.
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Summary: Last King Book I Ever Purchase {or} Suckered Again!!
Review: I can't believe I fell for it...AGAIN!! King keeps getting my money and I keep feeling like an idiot for reading anything he writes since Bag of Bones (and I wasn't thrilled with that). This latest pathetic attempt was produced obviously to meet some contractual agreement (500 pages!-- a coincidence? I don't think so). When Mr. King was at his best a decade ago there was no one who could touch his skill and originality. Everything he's written since has about the originality of a fried egg sandwich. All of these stories in "E.E." have been done to death, by King and others. I've given up hope! Save your money!
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Summary: Just Like Old Times...
Review: I had a definite sense of deja vu while reading this collection of short stories from the undisputed master of the form. Once upon a time, King treated his readers to genuinely spooky, thought-provoking dark tales in short form. He seems to have returned to that era with this collection. After being disappointed with his last couple of books, it was great to see his work in some of its past glory...
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