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Summary: Don't read it if you collect toy monkeys
Review: I didn;'t get the full scary result of the book, being only 13, 12 when I read it. The mist was a little gruesome.......the monkey was best. My stepdad warned me not to read it and i didnt take his advice..and im glad!
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Summary: It is the tale, not he who tells it.
Review: Hard to believe that sometimes when the author's name is three times the size of the book title, but Stephen King short-story collections do make for fine reads. The tales are generally more unsettling than his longer works, cutting to the bone quickly and leaving you wondering for hours later what the outcomes might mean, if indeed the story provides one at all. On the whole, Skeleton Crew is a gathering of just such yarns. The first one, The Mist, more approaches the length of the novellas in The Bachman Books than a short story. But you won't be looking at your wristwatch with this one, as it alone is practically worth the price of admittance...a spooky and electrifying story of a group of people trapped in a supermarket facing off against an oppressive fog swirling around it...and the vapourous but deadly inhabitants that dwell within. My other favorite of the collection is The Jaunt, a SF narrative who's science King himself describes as "wonky". But this doesn't detract in the least from the ominous undertones of this description of the invention of teleportation...and the terrible psychological price it can exact on the traveller. I have more faves, and there's nothing I'd like better than to describe each one in loving detail. I'll spare you THAT frightening ordeal, but suffice it to say that out of the 22 stories gathered here, The Monkey, Cain Rose Up, Mrs. Todd's Shortcut, Beachworld, Survivor Type, Gramma, and The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet are the exceptional standouts. And there is also another visit to that gentlemen's club all King fans know and love, 249B East 35th, where the members reveal their own brushes with the supernatural to the flickering colours in the fireplace. Plus we get a fun introduction by King on the reasons for his shorter fiction forays, as well as facinating endnotes on many of the individual tales themselves. Of course they can't all be gems, and there are a couple...not clunkers really, but ones that fail to live up to the power of the others. And quite a few of the stories deal with inanimate objects come to evil life, a favorite topic with King and one that wears thin in spots here. The other relentlessly creepy trips through the madhouse make it all worthwhile, however. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to shove baloney in through my CD-ROM drive, as the elves are getting restless. Fornit Some Fornus.
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Summary: THE MIST & SURVIVOR TYPE WAS GENIUS
Review: At least buy the book for The Mist and Survivor Type. I keep thinking that The Mist would be an awesome movie. It was a great story. Get off the computer and buy it!
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Summary: The Glory Days
Review: This has to be my favorite book by Stephen King. The first time I read it, I was stunned by the sheer imagination displayed by Mr. King. I read this one every few years, and every time is just like the first.
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Summary: Skeleton Crew made me think about terror. Real Terror.
Review: Skeleton Crew was a fantasy of a warped dimension. A dimension that COULD exist in our world. Rod Sterling may have been the father but Stephen King raised the child. It was total terror. It was nightmares unfolding. Over and over.... I was impressed.
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Summary: If for no other reason, buy it for "The Mist"
Review: My favorite short story in this book is "The Mist". I read this book when it was first released and "The Mist", for me, was the most terrifying that I have ever read.
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Summary: One of The Top Four Stephen King Books I have read!!!
Review: I think this book is outstanding. From the begining it get's you hooked! "The Mist"(the best story in the book) was terrifing and it was so great that most of the stories left you hanging! Especially "The Mist","Survivor Type" and "The Raft". I liked also on the crazy stories like "Home deliveries: Milkman 1", Nona(one the best in the book), "Gramma" and "Uncle Otto's Truck" It was scary and it it made your heart and guts wrentch. I say this is one of his all time classics.
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Summary: Unbelievable!!!
Review: This is the best compilation of short stories that I have ever read. All stories are fierce but especially the Mist. Perhaps the most bleak story of all time but also one of the best pieces of literature ever too!!!
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Summary: This book should be for mature audiences only...
Review: and I am not sure I'm old enough at 32. I first read this when I was in college and "Survivor Type" made me physically ill. King is a capable storyteller but sometimes I don't know whether his goal is to entertain, entrance or gross the reader out. Avoid this book (and "MISERY") unless you have a very strong stomach.
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Summary: Bleakness like you've never known
Review: I just bought this book for the second time. The first time, I bought it used. If I have any advice, it's to read this when you are alone, and in dim light at that. You will be afraid. If nothing else, read "The Mist." Bleakness like you'll never know.
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