false 754250 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 754250 3 740369 book 1 4 2008 Button, Button: Uncanny Stories total:179|5:32|4:60|3:62|2:22|1:3| 179 633 297 40 8726 3.80 16008 2601 34164309 126262 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 2 2 false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 18:45:45 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 30 07:58:12 -0700 2008
Unfortunately, only the title story really packed the sort of punch that I was expecting. The other stories range from clever to m...more...]]> 38304683 718399 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 4 1 false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 08:11:19 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 11:48:47 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 70201478 961136 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Sat Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 19:13:52 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 19:22:59 -0700 2009
That having been said, I enjoy reading Matheson, but he's kinda like bingeing on junk foo...more...]]> 74927426 552121 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 4 0 false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 11:12:07 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 11:43:18 -0700 2009 more...]]> 27396961 888294 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 1 false Tue Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 03:25:33 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 03:29:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 33461698 449045 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 5 1 false Sun Sep 21 15:48:34 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 15:52:27 -0700 2008
Short, simple, basic, but completely bad ass stories. Every writer should read these short stories.

You don't need big fancy words or sentence structures to tell a great story. Matheson is proof of that.

No Such Thing As Vampires is my fav of th...]]> 40998377 351570 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Sat Dec 27 06:53:31 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 13:40:17 -0800 2009 Button, Button: Uncanny Stories I enjoyed about half; of those six, I might reread three. It isn't as though Matheson isn't a capable writer. His prose is direct and snapp...more...]]> 77545886 2349489 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 2 0 false Thu Nov 12 08:38:08 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 12 08:45:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 48677513 2076721 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 2 0 false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 09 06:03:51 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 06:04:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 31212632 83144 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 4 0 false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 04:36:06 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 04:33:56 -0700 2008 Twilight Zone episodes. Beginning with the title story, Button, Button - which I understand to be coming out on the big screen soon as The Box with Cameron Diaz (ew)...more...]]> 30938633 670054 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 4 0 false Thu Aug 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 16:54:39 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 16:55:01 -0700 2008
As a chi...more...]]> 63284253 1575697 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Fri Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 09:42:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 09:46:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 79088647 2982068 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 21:23:04 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 26 21:25:31 -0800 2009
It is an okay concept that will invite all sorts of intriguing questions , for a few days, around the water cooler. Would you kil...more...]]> 77882275 2445523 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 5 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1969 Sun Nov 15 14:46:20 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 15:01:08 -0800 2009 more...]]> 22447338 986649 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 4 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 17 14:41:58 -0700 2008 Sat May 24 09:23:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 65376828 2566159 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 04:01:23 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 04:05:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 72720690 634816 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 20:00:11 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 14:41:14 -0700 2009 DO NOT START HERE. Matheson is one of the best writers of the twentieth century, but this is a rather lackluster and poor collection of stories. If your loo...more...]]> 60269420 1133997 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 5 0 false Sun Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 01:15:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 03:58:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 76215703 190886 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 3 0 false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:32:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 30 10:33:22 -0700 2009 75134664 1626122 754250 0765312573 9780765312570 40 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/754250.Button_Button_Uncanny_Stories 3.54 179 2008 1 0 false Sat Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 10:49:39 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 14:43:14 -0700 2009
Must remember Rich Math is bad author...more...]]> 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=754250