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Summary: Save the Best For First
Review: The person who said that ''Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption'' was bad, you're right. ''Rita Hayworth''... was extremely horrible. If it had more dialogue in it, it probably would've been better.
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Summary: Deserves a 10/5
Review: I am a huge fan of Shawshank Redemption and I knew I had to read the book sometime in life. I picked up Different Seasons. I did not enjoy Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption as much as I enjoyed the movie. But then when I started Apt Pupil something kept telling this was just going to kick major ass. And you bet it did.
Todd Bowden discovers his neighbour (Arthur Denker) is not a sweet old man whose wife passed away but a wanted Nazi war criminal who killed more than 700,000 people in Germany at the Patin concentration camp. Todd becomes a puppet master and starts manipulating the old man for stories about his role in Hitler's final solution.
I would not say this story is disturbing. I wasnt disturbed because it was a lot of fun to read. I think the over excitement of reading such a masterpiece and the disturbing sections cancelled each other out.
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Summary: A Different Season
Review: Apt Pupil was definitely good, but it was just so disturbing to me that I found myself saying, "Why don't I just forget this story and read the next one?" After that terrible, disgusting cat incident, I almost gave it up. I was really horrified by that and I don't get scared/disgusted/horrified easily.When Dussander then goes to the Humane Society to "pick out a dog", I actually quickly scanned each page after that to see if anything beyond that sentence ever happens (because there was no way I was reading that...that cat was bad enough but a dog....absolutely no way) but luckily there was no more mention of it. The other three stories were good, especially The Body. It is what the movie Stand By Me was based on and it's as good as the movie. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was a surprisingly good story, especially since the title really turned me off. I enjoyed that one. So, if it weren't for the animal abuse in Apt Pupil, I would have liked it better but that just really bothered me.
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Summary: Things Not Meant To Be Known
Review: Stephen King introduces us to a boy named Tod Boden. After learning of the Holocaust in school he becomes obsessed with it. Finding a Nazi war criminal hiding in the US. Todd black mails him for the truth of what really happened the stuff not printed in the books. As the story unveils we see how Boden's mind begins to warp from the stroies of terror. As Boden's nights grow more restless people become suspicious of Todd and his old friend. This book also includes the Shawshank Redemption an excellent novella.
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Summary: The mind of a serial killer revealed!
Review: I was expecting to love this one, but alas I did not. It was dull and uncompelling. The premise itself was excellent--a boy who discovers a Nazi war criminal in his neighborhood and threatens to turn him in if he does not satisfy the boy's morbid curiosity. Unfrotunately, the story as King wrote it fell flat.
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