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Summary: It was a cool book that shows the true ability of Steven K.
Review: This book is a very good book the ability of Steven King in this book is the best out of all followed by Bags of Bones and The Green Mile. But beware if you buy this book you better look under your bed for the main clown.This book is full of bone chilling events and basiclly another Bride of Chucky book. If your're a Steven King fanatic you will love this book.
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Summary: THE (second) BEST STEPHEN KING BOOK EVER!
Review: I love this book bigtime. The Mist, The Raft, The Monkey, and Here There Be Tygers are the best stories in it. A warning to those who have not yet read it: If you have a weak stomach, DO NOT READ 'SURVIVOR TYPE'! It is rather... dissecting to read.
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Summary: Great !
Review: This is the first Stephen King book I have read. I am a fan of his movies, (It, Needfull Things, Stand by Me, Creepshow, etc.), and I decided to read one of his books. It was terrific. My favorite stories were Nona and The Mist. I deeply recomend that you read it if you are a first time Stephen King reader or a devoted fan. Now that I read this book, I think I'm hooked on Stephen King. I am now going to Carrie, and I am going to get 'Salem's Lot and The Shining,
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Summary: The Skeleton Crew delivers you to a world of evil
Review: Stephen King makes a wonderful effort in this, his second collection of short stories. All of the stories in this novel had been published in various magazines before they were collected together in this marvellous adventure into the unknown depths of King's imagination.The first story to appear in the book, "The Mist", definetly is the cherry on the top. Where else could you see a supermarket being the site for one of the last battles for humankind? The Jaunt is another amazing story, with parallels to "The Fly". The Jaunt invovles transportation technology, and the length of time a human mind experiences having to pass through it while being conscious. The Raft and The Reach are also most noteworthy creations from King's mind. The Raft was actually a re-written version of a story King had written earlier called The Float, but the idea was similar. King's The Reach show's that he can write all kinds of genres, not just the horror. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is a fan of Stephen King, and anyone who wants to be. An excellent place to start if you are new to the world of Stpehen King, or a great book if you have read King before, and are looking for more.
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Summary: Another Winner From Mr King
Review: While this collection of Stephen King tales may not be up there with the monumental collection NIGHT SHIFT, there are enough macabre pleasures to make this worth reading. By far the best of the tales is the first, the novella length THE MIST, a claustrophobic story of the survival of a small group trapped within a mist that contains creatures out of a Lovecraftian nightmare. A real page turner, which would make one hell of a movie. Other stories worth reading are the sci fi tale THE JAUNT, which has a cracking ending and THE BALLAD OF THE FLEXIBLE BULLET, a moving story of madness. Many of the others are good, but just do not come up to the standard of those three - and the poetry sections are something that I'm afraid we can do without.
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Summary: The Raft takes you on a deadly ride.
Review: I think an allegory lurks behind this horrific story. There are four teens, with fragile egos, showing off and daring each other to what should have been an innocent adventure on a local lake. Enter "Nessie" and they find themselves in a situation they could never have anticipated. It was bad enough that I felt their discomfort of being cold, wet and nearly naked on a raft. Then everyone died a horrible death. As they watched each other perish one at a time, they could see the shore and the familiar items they left behind, their clothes and the car. Safety was very near physically but so far beyond their possible reach. To make it worse, the last victim recognized that he missed an opportunity to escape. The monster in the story was not too far fetched --sort of "Alienesque"--with a gimmick. The grisly, graphic details are not for the squeamish reader. King sneaks up on you by spinning his tale in a everyday situation. He develops a sinister tone that moves the reader from an uneasy feeling in the beginning to a nightmarish hell, break-out-in-a-mental-sweat anxiety at the ending that leaves you drained. Oh, he's so good at it!
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Summary: The best collection of short stories I have ever read
Review: From start to finish, this book is just full of lasting images. The parts that affected me most were the ending of "The Jaunt"; the plot twist at the end of "Gramma"; and the entire story "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet", which in its own way is the scariest and saddest story in the collection. I also liked the recurring theme of "Do you love?" which showed up in "The Raft", "Nona", and "The Reach" to tie together the three completely unrelated stories. The only complaint I have with this book are the few stories that seemed rather pointless; namely, the Milkman stories (although the first one was chilling, the second went nowhere) and "The Reaper's Image" (I expected more than a predictable cursed-object story from this imaginative writer). All in all it is an excellent book.
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Summary: Great Stories
Review: This is pretty good. Not as good as Night Shift, but still better than Nightmares and Dreamscapes. The Mist is outstanding, poosibly the best short story he's ever written. Other bright spots are 'Cain Rose Up', 'Gramma', 'The Wedding Gig', 'Nona' and 'The Monkey'. I would reccomend this to anyone who likes horror or anyone who likes good, interesting books.
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Summary: Awesome writing...got me hooked!
Review: This is the book that got me totally hooked on Stephen King. I grew up in the US, but have now moved to Norway. I have every book he has ever written in hardcover, it has become a tradition, of sorts, to buy a new hardcover Stephen King book every time I am back in the states. I find reading Stephen King very comforting, like being with a good friend. I love his books!
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Summary: God I hate stephen king
Review: Stephen king is a terrible writer, in my opinion. Lots of times he uses rough, offensive imagery in place of eloquent writing. while I'm sure that has it's place, it usually just offends me. which is why I hate to say it, but this is a very good collection of short stories. I don't think anyone could find a better collection of pop literature. there are very many very good ones in here, which I still think about sometimes, years later. the best stories (to my recollection, I don't have the book here) are "the Jaunt" and "the Mist" and "Survivor type" and "gramma" (that one is really scary) and "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut" (which is terrifying in it's own way). each of those stories merits a reading, so I recommend you purchse the book. ignore what other reviewers have said, just read the stories I've told you to read. then write to me and thank me for turning you on to them.
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