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    <body><![CDATA[So I admit it. I was a Stephen King junkie at an early age. How could I not be growing up in New Hampshire and traveling to Maine every damn year. The <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13440.Skeleton_Crew" title="Skeleton Crew by Stephen King">Skeleton Crew</a> was one of my favorites because (1.) I actually quite like the short story format and (2.) one of the stories, The Mist, not only took ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33711246">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a whole this story collection wasn't all that hot, but it's worth picking up for it's first story alone. &quot;THE MIST&quot; is about a bunch of people who barricade themselves inside a supermarket after a strange mist brings with it a horde of hideous flesh-eating monsters.  There's horror, act...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26427123">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A collection of mostly really entertaining short stories. I think this one was my favorite Stephen King book as a kid.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[One of the first King books that I ever read. Great stories, enough to mess with your head.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first ever King book....this is where the passion started for me with his stories......]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[the mist: great story till the end &amp; stephen king once again ruins another great story.<br/><br/>***OK I'm finally finished with this stupid book... I really enjoyed most of the short stories at the beginning of the book and towards the end the f*@king FORNIT can die.<br/><br/>I recommend this b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14840773">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a lot of what i read just flows through me and i can't remember so many details but the stories in this book- I STILL can remember vividly. pretty amazing little collection. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this a looooong time ago and decided that I wanted to read some good Stephen King. There are some terrific stories in here.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Bite size scary stories.  Just right, espcially when King can get too wordy.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this. Read &quot;survivor type&quot;. It's my favorite short story in there.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun book. Every story was different from the next. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In the introduction to <em>Skeleton Crew</em> (1985), his second collection of stories, King pokes fun at his penchant for &quot;literary elephantiasis,&quot; makes scatological jokes about his muse, confesses how much money he makes (gross and net), and tells a story about getting arrested one time when he was &quot;suffused with the sort of towering, righteous rage that only drunk undergraduates can feel.&quot; He winds up with an invitation to a scary voyage: &quot;Grab onto my arm now. Hold tight. We are going into a number of dark places, but I think I know the way.&quot;<p>  And he sure does. <em>Skeleton Crew</em> contains a superb short novel (&quot;The Mist&quot;) that alone is worth the price of admission, plus two forgettable poems and 20 short stories on such themes as an evil toy monkey, a human-eating water slick, a machine that avenges murder, and unnatural creatures that inhabit the thick woods near Castle Rock, Maine. The short tales range from simply enjoyable to surprisingly good. <p>  In addition to &quot;The Mist,&quot; the real standout is &quot;The Reach,&quot; a beautifully subtle story about a great-grandmother who was born on a small island off the coast of Maine and has lived there her whole life. She has never been across &quot;the Reach,&quot; the body of water between island and mainland. This is the story that King fans give to their friends who don't read horror in order to show them how literate, how charming a storyteller he can be. Don't miss it. <em>--Fiona Webster</em></p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contains one of the most gruesome stories ever, &quot;Survivor Type.&quot;]]></body>
    
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