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Summary: King's signature, resembles earlier works but...
Review: Very advanced from his first short story styles. Something confirming to me is King's imagination is a culmination of deep human spirituality in the sense he see's, imagines, knows, and relates the side of life that truly does exist but is tucked away by many as out of the norm. I have found some of King's works to be seriously lacking if not extremely disappointing, not this, he put out this time and leaves us with satisfaction in each. My favorite is L T story of pets, the entire work will have you thrown and very unexpectedly shocked at the finale. Also recommend reading another great story, SB 1 by Maddox.
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Summary: Wow...
Review: This is some intense stuff. I picked this book up at midnight at a local bookstore and have been reading it all night. These stories are King at his prime. "Riding the Bullet" was my favorite. These are really dark tales - King's first release of 2002! Recommended.
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Summary: WHY ONLY FIVE STORIES?????
Review: I'm a bit frusterated that not all the stories are included in this set. It's not unabridged if it's not all there. Unless future volumes are in store I will be really upset. I want Riding the Bullet on Audio. I want a professionally recorded LT's theory of pets. I am almost ashamed of this set because of the nearly 2/3 missing in this "UNABRIDGED" edition. Shame on whoever put this together.
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Summary: Unabridged -- unless you count the NINE missing stories
Review: Careful you don't expect the audio editions of this book to be identical to the hardback version. True, the FIVE stories included are present unabridged... but the remaining NINE stories in the hardcover edition do not appear at all in the audio versions, CD or cassette...Thanks.
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Summary: Everything's Eventual
Review: Great book. This was my first short story type experience. I loved it. Of course, there were a few lame stories, but mostly they were all great. Good to keep to read again and again.
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Summary: Some good, some bad
Review: Some of the stories were good and some were bad: Good stories:The Man in the Black Suit, Everything's Eventual,Lunch at the Gotham Cafe, 1408, Riding the Bullet. Bad Stories:The Death of Jack Hamilton,In the Death Room, The Little Sisters of Eluria (all of them awful).
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Summary: Afraid to die now
Review: Wow, this one really cooks! Autopsy Room Four is my favorite. I think this one may have been written after his accident, and if so, he has really put a lot of himself into it. You can really feel what that guy is going through, his anxiety and pain, hear the machinery, and almost smell the sick walls of that room. I don't want to be cut up like that when I'm "gone!" Thanks Stephen!
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Summary: A short story sage
Review: This is a wonderful book that easily makes you laugh. The characters are lively and easy to love, and their actions are majestic. They remind me of the characters in Janvier Tisi's THE USURPER , who despite their strengths are victims of the situations they find themselves in. This book will be fun to readers of all age groups. Recommeded: THE USURPER AND OTHER STORIES, WARD NO.6
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Summary: A Highly Recommended Short Story Collection
Review: This is by far by favorite King short story collection since Night Shift. Here's what I think of each story.
Introduction: Normally I skip introductions and afterwards, but King's style of writing them always draws me in. In this one he talks about the "lost art" of the short story.
Autopsy Room Four: Obviously inspired by similar stories, but King puts his own little twist on this common tale.
The Man in the Black Suit: I've never really understood all the fuss about this story, which actually won a major award. Still a good one and from anyone else it would be amazing. Probably the reason I drop the collection to 4 stars.
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away: A meditation on life and death and long empty roads. Highly recommend.
The Death of Jack Hamilton: Probably the other reason I drop the collection to 4 stars. I just didn't like this one.
In the Deathroom: One of my all time favorite King stories. The audioversion is fantastic.
The Little Sisters of Eluria: As a Dark Tower nut, this was a welcome addition to those stories.
Everything's Eventual: A fantastic little story that I've read three or four times now. I'm fascinated by the character and the way his story is told, and I was so glad to see him in another work that I won't name here so it doesn't spoil that other work for someone.
L.T.'s Theory of Pets: If you're looking for a solid ending, this isn't the story for you, but I like it.
The Road Virus Heads North: A great story, feels a little like Rose Madder in some ways, with a great ending you might not see coming.
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe: This story really confused me at first, but the second read really brought out the details I missed. EEEEEEEEE!
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French: A wonderful little story with a wonderful title. Originally published in the New Yorker, where I read it the first time.
1408: A really scary story, and even better on audio. There's a blast from the sax on the audio that actually made me JUMP!
Riding the Bullet: I first read this when King published it as an eBook, and I had trouble with reading it on the screen. This second time around, reading it on paper, was much better. They're even making a movie out of this one, and I can see why. It's very visual.
Luckey Quarter: I'm not sure I get this story, but it feels like it was a fitting way to end the book.
All in all, some great King that is better than I make it sound. Highly recommended for all King fans and anyone who likes short stories!
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Summary: Excellent collection of disturbing stories
Review: Although Stephen King is best known for his novels, he does master the art of short story writing quite well. Sometimes even these stories become strong competition for his other work. Take Riding the Bullet for example. When King published this short e-book on the internet in 2000 it attracted over half a million readers. This frightening little story is now being released as a major movie. So it is not surprising that every time a short story collection is published, I am eager to dive into it.
Everything's Eventual certainly delivers on expectations and includes everything a good collection needs. It contains fourteen well-written stories of the macabre, with numerous surprising twists and breathtaking conclusions. The strongest stories originate from a simple what-if question and evolve into an estranged situation of mayhem and emotional disturbance. Never will you be disappointed by the compelling imagination of the author.
In Autopsy Room Four, my favorite, a man awakens in a body bag, unable to move. A high school dropout with an unusual talent stumbles onto a dream job in Everything's Eventual, but soon he starts to realize he is part of an evil plot and comes face to face with his conscious. A cleaning lady receives more that a bit of luck when she finds some money in Lucky Quarter. In The Road Virus Heads North a horror writer buys a bizarre painting at a yard sale discovers that looks indeed do deceive. King did not forget to include a Dark Tower tale, in which Roland is attacked by mutants and trapped in a "hospital" run by The Little Sisters of Eluria.
This collection also contains short stories that were previously published in another format. Riding the bullet was published as an e-book. Lunch at the Gotham Café, 1408 and In the Deathroom form together the audiobook collection Blood and Smoke, published in 2000. Finally L.T.'s Theory of Pets was published as an audio recording of a reading King gave at London's Royal Festival Hall.
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