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Summary: good, not great
Review: Stephen King's Skeleton Crew is typical of his short story collections: there are some dramatic stories, some all out screamers, and a couple plain weird ones. This book has got several of all three catagories, some great, some terrifying. The great stories make the book worth its money alone, but as a whole, this book gets heavily dumbed down by stories that are either long and boring or just too weird to comprehend. The Mist and The Monkey each scared the heck out of me, and Mrs. Todd's Shortcut proved to be very interesting and bizarre, if not scary. Survivor Type is just plain disturbing and gruesome, which is not to say that I didn't like it. Then, there were the stories like Beachworld (does this story mean anything at all, anyone?)and Ballad of the Flexible Bullet which drove me insane. (interestingly enough, the latter story is about going insane). So bottom line: a good read, but do not expect every story to be a masterpiece.
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Summary: Another good collection of stories.
Review: My first collection of Stephen King's short stories was his 1978 release "Night Shift" and I thought it was very good for the most part, and so I bought "Skeleton Crew" right after I bought "Night Shift".The one main difference from "Skeleton Crew" compared to "Night Shift" is there are more sceens of drama than sceens of horror in "Skeleton Crew", but that's the case through the whole book. Some of my favorite stories out of here are "The Mist", "Monkey", "The Raft", "Nona" and "Paranoid: A Chant". Paranoid is probally one of the most creative short stories from The King I have ever read. "The Mist" is probally the longest storie in the book. Thier are about 20 short stories in Stephen King's "Skeleton Crew" with a new Into and Outro(there intro's a lot of the reissued edition of King's older, but the Into's new) so its a very soild work, and it should keep the reader sucked in for awhile.
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Summary: Skeleton Crew
Review: Stephan King's Skeleton Crew is the best book ever. You cannot compare this book to any other book. Skeleton Crew is the best thrilling story. This book surprises you in so many different ways. The birds in the story just pop out and scare you. David and Stephanie are the best characters in the book because they are such good actors and actresses. If you want thrill you should read this book. This book will scare you and make you want to watch the movie. I recommend this book to all students and adults.
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Summary: A good book
Review: A good book, some of the stories I found either downright no good or just plain boring (Here there be tygers for example). But the ones that were good, were GOOD, such as, the mist, an excellent story (dont read it when it's foggy out!) and, the monkey (Scared the heck out of me and I was afraid of wind-up monkeys for a week.)
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Summary: Tales that linger in the mind
Review: This tome of tales first came into my hands when it was first released, and I was 11. Last year I bought a new copy and was amazed at how well the stories had lasted in my memory. These are some of Stephen King's finest works and if I wanted to interest a non-fan or novice in his writing, this might well be the book I would give them to whet their appetite. "Word Processor of the Gods" transcends terror to make us all wonder what we would want if our computer could shape a new reality for us - and can we really all swear there is absolutely no-one we'd like to use the DELETE button on? "The Jaunt" uses a similar technological premise to Michael Crichton's "Timeline", but to a far different effect. "Gramma" is a tale loosely drawn from a frightening childhood experience of King's, as you will know if you read his "On Writing". Childhood fears, and the demonic powers scared children can fancifully assign to toys, also provide the basis for the evil toy in "The Monkey". And, in "Mrs. Todd's Shortcut", King introduces us to a woman whose passion for saving time leads her to some particularly bizarre places - quickly. Some two dozen stories, many of which scare less than they titillate, and create lasting images of the eerie.
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Summary: Not a screamer like The Shining but still dark and creepy.
Review: While this isnt as scary as The Shining or as disturbing as It this book is good because it keeps you guessing as to how each story will end.Also this book has stories in the style of Night Shift and ones in a non horrific style like Different Seasons.It can be pretty hard at first to know what to label a story as.
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Summary: A Thrilling Collection of Short Stories
Review: The novel Skeleton Crew by Stephen King was a collection of several stories. It mixes the realities of science fiction with the terror of a horror story. The novel challenged the reader to use their mind to either figure out several unanswered questions in the book and to use the imagination to create certain endings for many of the stories. Although, King in many of the stories seems to unclearly end a story, leaving many readers hanging or unsatisfied. In one particular story "The Mist" King leaves the ending unsaid. The characters in the story are at conflict with the creations of a military experiment gone terribly wrong. The characters are trapped in a super market through out most of the story. Yet as the story comes to an end King never directly reveals the fate of the surviving characters. This really leaves an enormous gap in the readers mind as to what will become of the characters. King should have ended the story on a more clear note in which a reader would be able to know and understand what happens to the characters. He really doesn't use many literary divices in this story, there are many situations in which King could have used forshadowing or the use of irony to help readers understand events in the story a little better. In another story "The Monkey" King shows the reader, a grown man who comes in contact with a childhood fear, a fur toy monkey with clanging symbols. In the story the man remebers the fear the monkey stuck in his heart and how every time somthing bad would happen the monkey was always there. King really tells this story well. There is great suspense in the story that always keeps the reader second guessing and thinking of what will happen next. He does a much better job in this story of letting the reader know the ending. He also uses forshadowing in this story to give hints as to what might happen on the next page. King also used dramtic and situaltional irony in "The Monkey." He leads readers to belive one thing will happen only to find out King had pulled a complete 180 and somthing the exact opposite happens. Over all Skeleton Crew was a good book. It made me think and have to use logic to understand many of the situations in the novel. I would recommend this novel to any reader who enjoys a collection of horror stories, mysteries and stories that flat out make you think.
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Summary: For the Good Times
Review: I'm giving this book four stars, but please don't take that to mean that this book is a good experience from beginning to end. It's not. There are some decided low points in this collection, but the ups outweigh the downs by a long shot. Night Shift, King's first collection, suffered in a lot of ways from being an up-and-down sort of collection. There were a few really good stories, a few truly terrible stories, and more than a few that were just kind of in the middle. With Skeleton Crew, King has moved away from that middle and divided his stories a little bit more completely. The opening piece deserves special mention, as it takes up roughly a third of the book on the whole. The Mist is a fan favorite, but I have to say that it left me feeling a little unsatisfied. King has addressed all of the ideas that he brings up in this story much better in other work (specifically The Regulators), and that led me to look at this story as little more than a slightly bloated piece of dimestore horror. More likely than not, I'm suffering from the reflection of better, more mature work, but all the same, I think that The Mist may be a little oversold by the fans. The rest of the book, as I've mentioned, is an up and down affair. There's actually quite a bit of science fiction rolling around in here by King's standards, and unfortunately most of it really isn't that great. The two stories that rise to mind as I write this piece are Beachworld and the Jaunt, both of which really aren't much from the fiction perspective and are completely off from the science take, as King admits in the afterword. I recommend this book, however, on the weight of the good stories that have been included. Pieces like Mrs. Todd's Shortcut and The Reach are more than worth the investment in time and money that this collection demands. At his worst in this writing, King still manages to tell interesting and involving stories, and at his best he provides masterpieces. For the most part, this collection should keep the reader entertained throughout (though the inclusion of the two poems is a bit questionable--all they did for me was illustrate why Stephen King doesn't write more poetry). Any reader should buy this collection for the masterpieces, but expect to enjoy the experience throughout.
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Summary: Even better than Night Shift!
Review: This is a great collection of short stories from the Master of Horror. My favorite was The Jaunt, which was sort of a sci-fi thriller. The Raft was in the movie Creepshow II. Also good were Gramma, The Myst (more like a novella at 100+ pages), Survivor Type and The Ballad of Flexible Bullet which is a story about going insane. If you enjoyed Night Shift you'll love this.
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Summary: Stephen King's Readability.
Review: I found Stephen King's Skeleton Crew very hard to read. He did gain my interest at all in his stories. I found his stories dry and boring. I was under the impression that he was a very good author. I was very disapointed in this book. I can understand why Steven King fans won't like this review but not every likes all the same books. While some people may like this book - I do not.
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