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Summary: Great writing!
Review: A great book containing many different short stories that make your spine tingle. Great if you need a "hit" of King. I couldn't put it down though. Fantastic book.
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Summary: Brilliant!!
Review: Ok, if you like stephen king, and havn't read this book, please get it asap! The short stories in this book are amazing! You'll be thinking about them long after you've finished them. These stories are just so imaginitive! This is the first of King's short story collections I have read. I'm definitely going to pick up Skeleton Crew then Nightmares & Dreamscapes. WOW! ok, some of my favorites (althought I likes em all) are, "gray matter", "Sometimes the come back" "quiters INC", "Battle ground" , Strawberry Spring, "graveyard shift", well, i was going to list them all probably, but you know what I mean. Do I like this book?, hmmmm.....
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Summary: Fairly good!
Review: The book itself is a collection of stories by Stephen King that are so detailed it makes you feel that you are actually there! A few duds that leave you hanging, but they are worth buying anyway!
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Summary: Entertaining and Frightening
Review: As an avid King fan, I always disagree with those who label King solely as a horror writer, stating that his best works are often not grotesque. However, if you are looking for spine tingling horror and macabre, Night Shift provides adequately. A series of short stories, each disturbing but captivating. Those who have read 'Salem's Lot will enjoy "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road" which are tied to that despised town of vampires. "Quitters Inc." is especially frightening, with its Twilight Zone feel. "The Boogeyman" is another great tale which will frighten anyone who feared their closet door when they were little. There is just too many quality stories in this collection to name them all. A great read. Do not be scared by the short story format, the stories are fast paced and envigirating.
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Summary: Most were good, a few were disappointing.
Review: Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. This is only the second book of short stories that I've read by him. The other is NIGHTMARES & DREAMSCAPES. This one was much better. In King's novels, he takes a long time to set up the story and build the characters. In his short stories, he doesn't have that luxury, but he still manages to do both beautifully. The characters are vivid and the stories progress smoothly, just pulling you in. My favorites were JERUSALEM'S LOT, TRUCKS, CHILDREN OF THE CORN, and ONE FOR THE ROAD. Then there was QUITTERS, INC. which was quite Hitchcockian...totally unexpected stuff. Even the ones that I didn't care for too much were well done. This is a must read for any King fan and I also recommend it to anybody looking for a good scare.
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Summary: Very Good
Review: There were many good stories in this book. The Ledge, Quitters Inc., and Jerusalems' Lot were the best. Stephen King is great at writing, and he always will be. Also recommended is The Stand and The Talisman
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Summary: great stories!
Review: Almost every short story in this book is good. I didn't like Lawnmower Man, though. It is absolutely nothing like the movie. I think that the best stories are Jerusalems lot and The Ledge. Overall, this is a great short story collection
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Summary: One of the books that makes King a master of horror
Review: I don't like all of King's books, and at times my admiration for his writing has been more grudging than whole-hearted, but in collections like this one you can really see the skill and style that set him head and shoulders above most writers in the horror genre. I first read Night Shift when I was 13 years old, and for years could remember clearly the pure terror of "The Mangler" and "The Boogeyman" and how I felt like I was too old to be afraid of the closet, but still couldn't resist shining inside with my Daddy's flashlight. Reading it again after all this time was an interesting experience and I felt a lot of respect for stories that hadn't stuck in my mind the first time like "Sometimes They Come Back", "I Know What You Need", and "The Last Rung on the Ladder". In his foreward, King says that he's not a writer as much as a man with a marketable obsession. And while his career does not always intersect with my tastes, I must respectfully disagree on this point.
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Summary: Children Of The Corn- Review
Review: Children Of The Corn is so far the only story I've read from this book. Let me just say that I have no idea how they could make a whole movie and sequels to it. I wouldn't go see the movies because their is no way that it could be any good without tons of filler. Anyway, Children Of The Corn is not a real long story, but it's really good and quite creepy when you get down to it. It's smart and original.
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Summary: King's best book
Review: I've read over two dozen of Stephen King's books, and this one is his best. King's short story writing is what allows him to be mentioned in the same sentence with the likes of Poe as one of the best horror writers ever. There are so many King classics in "Night Shift" it is scary. "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," "Children of the Corn," "Trucks," "Gray Matter," "Quitters Inc.," the list goes on and on. Many of these were made into inferior movies, but the stories themselves are are among the scariest things he's written because they reduce fear to its most basic elements. This is one King book that qualifies as a "must" read.
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