Rating: 
Summary: A decent book
Review: The first story in this four "novella" collection is "The Shawshank Redemption", a story about a wrongfully accuse man trying to survive in a maximum security prison, which is one of King's best works, although it is only 100 pages long. The next up is "Apt Pupil", a sick and twisted tale about a teenager that becomes obsesed with the holocaust, only to find that there is one of the head SS officials living nearby. He blackmails the Nazi into giving the boy information about the holocaust, causing him great mental stress. Although it is a very intriguing plot, the disturbing ending and the sometimes awkward writing cause for a mediocre story. The next novella is "The Body", which has been made into the movie "Stand By Me". In this, the main character, Gordie, which is 12 yrs. old, goes on a trip with his friends in search of a dead body and learnes a bit more about life and death than he wished he knew. Unfortuately, too much of the book is spent with Gordie rambling about different nonimportant events, therefore making it seem like more of a task then a pleasure to have to read through the story, even though the movie is highly recomended by me. The last story is "The Breathing Method", which tells you of a club of sorts, in which men get together for a few drinks and tell some stroies, on of which is included. The first part of the novella, in which the narrator explains how he was invited to the club and what it was, is intruiging and a joy to read, however, the part in which the tale is told and the wrapping up of the story is full of awkward sentences with a mundane choice of words and actions, causing this story to be the worst in the book.
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Summary: What's scarier than the human condition?
Review: Different Seasons may be one of the more "mainstream" novels (or collections) that Mr. King has ever written. But the four stories in this collection each shine in thier own special way. I've read a lot of King, and this book surely holds its ground as one of my favorites. No vampires or viruses...just an ingenius look at redemption, obsession, death, and...more death, as it were.
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Summary: I could not stop reading
Review: I found these stories just toogood. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was my favorite, but Apt Pupil was really a unique gem. I loved the whole thing. One of his best.
Rating:
Summary: Overall letter grade=A
Review: Yes this is the stuff King was known for back in those halcyon days of solid creative writing when the story was the most important thing and one didn't have to write a huge tome to make up for a lack of one.(junk like It and Tommyknockers). The tales in this book are all very good and most have been made into movies(Breathing Method hasn't and is the weakest of the bunch)
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Summary: That ol' boy from Maine writes pretty good.
Review: Stephen King knows how to find a story and he knows how to tell it. I began reading "Shawshank Redemption" late one evening, and I read and read and read, and read it all that same night. Wow, what a story! I decided the lesson was nonrevenge. You see, Andy Dufresne had every reason to get revenge on the warden, and he could have taken some papers and dropped them in the mail. But that would have split his focus. It would have taken up some short-term memory spaces. And that may have made the difference between escaping and not escaping. So Andy just escaped. He focused on his beach, on the seaside town that he wanted to escape to. And escape he did.
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Summary: These four stories are not scary at all!
Review: Shame to say, I didn't know who Stephen King is until two years ago. All I knew about him was he is very famous in writting horror novels. So I expected the stories in this book would be scary. But it turned out all four stories were not scary at all. It's kinda all of the blue. This is the first Stephen King's fiction I borrowed from libraries. After I have finished reading it, I think I must buy it in bookstore to be one of my collections at home. There are four stories altogether. But I didn't read them in order as they do not have any relationship between one another. Rita Hayworth And Shawshank: It's the second best story in this book and it's also the least scary one. It's a good story telling about people in prison. But don't expect any scary moment. You would be disappointed if you do so. Apt Pupil: It's the last story I read in this book. I wanted to give up reading this one at the very beginning as I got bored really quick after reading its first few chapters. But I have to thank God I didn't. 'Cos it came out to be the best one among the four after all. It has a very well-written ending. I was deeply attracted by it. It's a can't-leave-it-till-I've-done kind of stories. Maybe you would easily get bored at the beginning, but it worths to read to the end then you would find that it's superb. But Weiskopf, the goverment agent in the story, is too apt to predict correctly all Todd Bowden has done. It's too surreal. The Body: It's the third best story in this book. It's about a four boys' adventure. They got into the woods to look for a dead boy. Quite interesting, but not as bright as the first two. The Breathing Method: It's the least interesting one. I bet that's why it was put as the last one of this book and it's the only one which wasn't made as a film. But I would have to say it's the most scary one while comparing with the other four stories. The last thing I want to point out here. It's very odd that these four stories are separated into four seasons. 'Cos I found no relationship between these three stories and its corresponding season, except the winter one. The first three are not seasonally-related.
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Summary: Not scary once so ever, but still well written
Review: Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption and The Body were the best stories in this book. Apt Pupil and The Breathing Method were all right, but could have been much better. Young children would like to read this book to start off with the works of King.
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Summary: IF YOU JUST READ ONE STORY, READ 'THE BODY.'
Review: This book was ok, some parts were very boring and tedious. It took me longer than normal to read because it's the type of book you want to leave and say "ill get back to it later..." I was glad it was over. AND you have to see the movie 'Stand by Me' based on 'The Body!'
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Summary: All of the stories are great, Especially "The Body".
Review: Different seasons has four different great Novellas in it, Three of which have become movies. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and The body are my favorites, and the movie "The Shawshank Redemption is my favorite movie of all time. This is Stephen King's best work!
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Summary: What a collection!
Review: This has always been the favorite of my Stephen King collection, so when I met him at the University of Vermont in March he was more than happy to sign my copy. The best.
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