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Summary: a master at work
Review: i KNEW there was a reason i used to like king so much! it's just that recently, either i lost sight, or he lost sight. this book is a return of the great storyteller. his way of creating a character in a few sentences, snaring your attention and refusing to let go, is rivaled by only a few. and he can still throw in the zingers - when you think you know what's up he can surprise you. as with most collections, not every story appeals to every reader. my favs in this collection are the title story and the little number about the guy in the tux who mistakes a lawyer for a barking dog.
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Summary: A Good Intro to King
Review: I had never read a Stephen King book before (go figure). I used to love the Alfred Hitchcock horror story collections. Decided to start with short stories by King before tackling a longer book. This book was a wonderful inroduction to Stephen King. Not all were spine tingling horror, but all were well written.
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Summary: "King is at the top of his form with this novel."
Review: What an excellent collection, S.K.'s first since Nightmares and Dreamscapes (1993). This time around is a much shorter trip, likely due to the sports story, the poem, King's guides for most of the stories, and a short story. The introduction for Everything's Eventual is King's account of his success with his E-book, his various side projects of the past, and the lost art of the short story. After this are 14 stories, including the e-book original Riding the Bullet, the sold seperately L.T.'s Theory of Pets, and his O. Henry Best Short Story of 1996 award winner The Man in the Black Suit. Among these excellent reads are a Dark Tower short story (A fun read, including the fact I was bored with his Gunslinger book and this is a prequel story), 1408 (King's fascinating take on the classic "haunted hotel room"), and a serious story on a man contemplating suicide in a hotel room in All That You Love Will Be Carried Away. Stories of Interrogation, old time bankrobbers, demonic portraits, and a deja vu nightmare are only part of this excellent collection, my favorite King collection since Night Shift. King regulars will be all over this and newcomers will get a taste of the new S.K., writer of Green Mile, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordan, Hearts in Atlantis, and Bag of Bones. All in all, I give this tomb of tales a 5/5 rating.
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Summary: This is what Stephen King should write now...
Review: Ok, given his last books... this has been the best that Stephen King has written in a couple of years... Dreamcatcher?? A Buick's 8?? Please... He should dedicate himself to writing collections of short stories...
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Summary: Everythings Eventual
Review: This is a very good collection of stories. All the stories hold the readers attention and curiosity from start to finish.
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Summary: What else is there to say about Stephen King?
Review: I absorbed these stories. In trying to bring short stories back to life, Stephen King has adopted 14 of his very own, very best, very frightening stories and put them all in one book. Once you have read the first story "Autopsy Room 4", you will not put the lights out. In fact, our master of macabre never does allow us to put the lights out does he? It's a fabulous compilation of some of the scariest stories I have read by my very favorite author of all time. A few of the stories mosied along like old friends, but if they didn't shock you, they surely did gross you out. Thank you Stephen King, once again.
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Summary: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Review: These days, grumbles King (Hearts in Atlantis, 1999), "When you get done, you get done . . . I don't want to finish up like Harold Robbins." (Robbins wrote into his 80s despite aphasia from a stroke and kept publishing despite being dead.) Here, King gathers previously uncollected tales from sources that show his desire to stay fresh by diving into new waters: three pieces have never seen paper-having been electronic, part of a game, or for audio-and four are more polished pieces that ran first in The New Yorker. The title story is from a game called F13 (don't ask us) and tells of social outcast Dink Earnshaw, who uses symbols and personal words to lead others to suicide. A Mr. Sharpton from Transcorp gets Dink to join his company and write letters that deservedly kill evil people, although Dink must consequently live a constricted life bound by odd rules. (One day, he figures that he's killed over 200 people, and, hey, not all of them evil.) "Riding the Bullet," which made publishing history as an e-book and audio book, tells about Alan Parker hitchhiking from the University of Maine to see his hospitalized mother and getting a ride with George Staub, two years dead, whose grave Alan has seen (facing death-this is a "bullet" we all must ride). In "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," Alfie Zimmer, a Gourmet Foods salesman, decides against suicide (for now) and thus saves his large collection of graffiti notes gathered while on the road. In the Poe-esque "In the Deathroom," an imprisoned New York Times reporter being tortured in some nameless South American version of hell faces death as certain as that faced under the Inquisitors of Toledo in the "The Pit and the Pendulum." Except that. . . . Less stylish than The Green Mile (or than Poe), though King remains strong in the short form.
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Summary: This book ISnt that good
Review: This is a Stephen King book that I dont like. Although it has his style the stories are mainly from his other book like the dark tower series. The one thing I did like about this book is that for people that dont have time on their hands you can read the short stories in about 22min.
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Summary: This Book Is Super Cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Stephen King's unique style of writing is obviously shown in this book. I highly reccommend this book is you do not have enough time to read one book at a time. All of the short stories are very intruiging especially the first one which has a cool ending.
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Summary: Funny and Frightening
Review: I liked Black house because the real Stephen King actually wrote something good, but this time he has hit a bullseye every single story is either funny or frightening. I especially love Lunch At The Gotham Cafe, in which a chef goes mad, yet it fills you with a dark comedy feeling even though this man is a complete horror you can't help but secretly laugh at the description King writes about the mad chef, other ones include LT's Theory of Pets which I have heard on Audio CD, but I promise you will absolutely love this collection of stories. You also get Ride The Bullet, which is King's most known E Story
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