Just got these beauties as the latest additions to my Stephen King collection from Hodder & Stoughton 😍

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I generally like my Stephen King the way he seems to like writing it. It's a bit uneven and a tad dark.

For me, this collection worked best in small doses. Reading it straight through just showed how inconsistent it was, but spacing the stories out let the stronger ones shine and the weaker ones fade without a fight. My engagement went up and down depending on the story, and that felt familiar rather than frustrating.

Some pieces pulled me in enough that I slowed down because I genuinely wanted to see where they were going. Others amused me for a bit and then just sort of disappeared from my mind. Not every idea felt fully developed, and not every ending was a hit, but that's just how I've always felt about King's short fiction.

I kept reading because of the variety. I'm feeling a bit uneasy, uncomfortable, and sometimes a little sad. It's about everyday people dealing with one super annoying situation, and just the right amount of tension to keep me hooked.

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How do you usually read short story collections, all at once or one story at a time?

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Let’s talk about the #kindle for a minute.

When the Kindle first came out, I fell in love. I’m a huge book guy, but books are expensive, big, and heavy. For a guy that moves a lot, they could be a problem.

But here, I saw the solution. The prices could be way lower. Scarcity wouldn’t be a thing anymore. Textbooks could be cheaper and easier to navigate. You could keep a whole library on one device!

But it took until the Kindle3G for me to be able to afford one of these guys. Now I have a Paperwhite but, honestly, miss the 3G for the ability to shop anywhere and PHYSICAL BUTTONS!

The real disappointment was that the cost of books wasn’t that much lower and scarcity was still a thing. Old Marvel prose novels never (or at least hadn’t for years and I’ve given up on the idea) made it to the device.

Which is RIDICULOUS. If I were a publishing house, every single thing I published would be available. They left money on the table.

Anyway… King also seemed like a huge Kindle fan as his was one of the biggest voices used to push it and it seemed inevitable to me that he would write a story involving one.

It also deals with the Dark Tower.

The story is fine. It’s more a fun story about a Kindle and a chance for him to talk about authors - something he loves to do.

It’s fine. It’s an interesting story.

I wonder if King’s changed his mind on the Kindle. Besides bringing mine on flights and to donate plasma, I know I’ve gone back to physical books.

What are your thoughts on the Kindle?

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As a young adult, there was this strange time where I got a job in a different town.

I moved into it alone and worked for about a week before I was able to drive back home and get my wife and our few belongings (starting a life together is a weird thing to think back on).

In that week, though, I had nothing in the house. I bought a TV because we didn’t have one (wasn’t able to get TV service until the first paycheck came in, though) and slept on the cardboard box it came in.

It was the summer in Georgia so daily thunderstorms would happen in the evening and I just sat there on the floor until it was time to sleep on the box.

But I did have this book so I was fine (more or less).

Besides the jive - which is cringe-inducing to an uncomfortable level - I love this book. I thought the pacing was really good and I loved the space between the doors.

I’ve read critiques that express distaste for King’s “boring,” parts like the space between doors or most of The Shining, but I think there’s purpose to it. The journey was supposed to be long and arduous and you don’t get that point across if you skip the space between the doors for the sake of a fast, exciting read. And, honestly, the story is better for it.

This book also introduced Eddie, who just might be my favorite King character of all time.

It was interesting re-reading this. I enjoyed it the first time (in the time between moving in and going to get my wife, I read books 2-4) but this time was better as my wife and I are together this time and I at least have a couch to sit on. ;-)

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Nietzsche mentioned (by the way, have you guys read Nietzsche? Dude’s got some pretty crazy thoughts) this desire for a dignified suicide.

I guess Nietzsche pops up with some random ideas but this one had more to do with control and bowing out rather than throwing up your hands.

It kind of felt like our protagonist here was following a similar path. He BASICALLY gets a terminal illness, makes amends, gives away his cat, bids adieu to his friends, and then that’s all she wrote but it was on his schedule, not the illness’.

That’s a dark interpretation, I’ll admit.

A lighter interpretation is that Scott is becoming aware of the fact that his life isn’t representative of all lives and, as his perspective grew, he grew to be better than he was - he ELEVATED himself beyond his former self if you will.

Anyway, it’s one of my favorite King books.

I don’t think it’s very popular, though. It’s not horror, it’s super short, and pretty political - a recipe for complaints if there ever was one.

But I like it.

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