Meh.
I don’t really know what else to say about this piece of work. Not that great, not that bad. It was meh. Alright, to start off let me explain that King’s new piece of work (with one seeming to come out every year) is a compilation of short stories - four to be exact. We’ve got one about a father who tricks his son into murdering his wife, also the boy’s mother, then suffers the haunting consequences; one about woman-novelist (King writing about a writer, that’s new and refreshing!) who’s raped and left for dead, then goes back out seek revenge by murdering all those responsible for this atrocity; one about a man down on his luck who makes a pact with a strange man (presumably the Devil) to trade luck with his fortunate friend, which in turn kills off most of the friend’s family; and, finally, one about a wife who discovers her husband of 25 years is sadistic serial killer and is now planning on how to murder the murderer.
There’s one - albeit, elusive - theme here. Can you guess it? I’ll give you a hint: MURDER!
Yes, it seems that King went back doing what he does best, although this really wasn’t his best. In fact, these stories - for the most part - were pretty boring. I didn’t find it necessarily hard to turn the page, but then that’s the beauty of short stories. It won’t be long before they’re over.
At the end of the book, King has a short afterword where he explains that this book was meant to look at the more realistic side of human nature, which is - more of less - what the book seems to exhibit. Most stories dwell on how a seemingly “normal” person would deal with difficult or tragic life events. It’s interesting, just not amazing. And also rather bleak.
I’ll say this though. For any King fans out there that have an inkling of picking up this book, I would suggest just searching out and reading the first short story only (1922 I believe it was called). I really liked this one. Probably because it was the least realistic of the whole bunch. I'll restrain myself from giving too much away, but I kind of wished King just did away with the rest of the stories and expanded on this guy making it a full length novel. After this woman's murder, she comes back to haunt her killer/husband, giving him a glimpse at what the future holds for both him and they're son; a punishment for his horrible to decision to rid the world of her. There was a lot that could have been expanded on. However, it still holds up well for what it is.
Otherwise, it’s all just meh.
I don’t really know what else to say about this piece of work. Not that great, not that bad. It was meh. Alright, to start off let me explain that King’s new piece of work (with one seeming to come out every year) is a compilation of short stories - four to be exact. We’ve got one about a father who tricks his son into murdering his wife, also the boy’s mother, then suffers the haunting consequences; one about woman-novelist (King writing about a writer, that’s new and refreshing!) who’s raped and left for dead, then goes back out seek revenge by murdering all those responsible for this atrocity; one about a man down on his luck who makes a pact with a strange man (presumably the Devil) to trade luck with his fortunate friend, which in turn kills off most of the friend’s family; and, finally, one about a wife who discovers her husband of 25 years is sadistic serial killer and is now planning on how to murder the murderer.
There’s one - albeit, elusive - theme here. Can you guess it? I’ll give you a hint: MURDER!
Yes, it seems that King went back doing what he does best, although this really wasn’t his best. In fact, these stories - for the most part - were pretty boring. I didn’t find it necessarily hard to turn the page, but then that’s the beauty of short stories. It won’t be long before they’re over.
At the end of the book, King has a short afterword where he explains that this book was meant to look at the more realistic side of human nature, which is - more of less - what the book seems to exhibit. Most stories dwell on how a seemingly “normal” person would deal with difficult or tragic life events. It’s interesting, just not amazing. And also rather bleak.
I’ll say this though. For any King fans out there that have an inkling of picking up this book, I would suggest just searching out and reading the first short story only (1922 I believe it was called). I really liked this one. Probably because it was the least realistic of the whole bunch. I'll restrain myself from giving too much away, but I kind of wished King just did away with the rest of the stories and expanded on this guy making it a full length novel. After this woman's murder, she comes back to haunt her killer/husband, giving him a glimpse at what the future holds for both him and they're son; a punishment for his horrible to decision to rid the world of her. There was a lot that could have been expanded on. However, it still holds up well for what it is.
Otherwise, it’s all just meh.
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