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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
by Stephen King

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<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10579.Everything_s_Eventual_14_Dark_Tales?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166254238m/10579.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10579.Everything_s_Eventual_14_Dark_Tales?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3389.Stephen_King">Stephen King</a> 
 <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8013427?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
 rating: 3 of 5 stars Collection of short stories. "1408" was made into a movie. 
 
 I tend to avoid short stories. And I stopped reading Stephen King after a succession of books - Misery, Thinner, The Stand, It, Needful Things, Pet Sematary - I thought were just not as good as his earlier books.
 
 But I found out the movie "1408" was based on a Stephen King short story. When a movie is based on a book, I like to read the book first. But since I'd missed that, and I liked the movie, I wanted to read the story. I found it surprising, since movies made from Stephen King novels tend to be sub-par - "The Shining" is the only decent movie, my opinion, made from a Stephen King novel (and the book is still much better). "Carrie" may be as well, I've never read the book or seen the movie, so I can't say. I enjoyed the TV miniseries "Rose Red", but that was written to be a TV miniseries, not a novel adaption.
 
 I learned from this book, that this story was originally released as an audio story (in a collection titled "Blood and Smoke), so now of course I'll need to listen to that as well :)
 
 I enjoyed the story version of "1408". I do wish there was an explaination of how the room became possessed. Or at least a possible reason or two suggested. And I would have liked to know when the problem started - was it right from the start when the hotel opened? Or was it later? But overall I enjoyed it. The movie had added some things, fleshed things out - no surprise, but while I don't think everything added was necessary, for once I don't think the basic story itself was harmed. Certianly things needed to be added to take was is in part experienced in mind, and senses and move it to a visual medium. 
 
 I also enjoyed "Riding the Bullet".
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bookshelves: horror, made-into-movies, read-in-2007
status: Read in October, 2007

Collection of short stories. "1408" was made into a movie.

I tend to avoid short stories. And I stopped reading Stephen King after a succession of books - Misery, Thinner, The Stand, It, Needful Things, Pet Sematary - I thought were just not as good as his earlier books.

But I found out the movie "1408" was based on a Stephen King short story. When a movie is based on a book, I like to read the book first. But since I'd missed that, and I liked the movie, I wanted to read the story. I found it surprising, since movies made from Stephen King novels tend to be sub-par - "The Shining" is the only decent movie, my opinion, made from a Stephen King novel (and the book is still much better). "Carrie" may be as well, I've never read the book or seen the movie, so I can't say. I enjoyed the TV miniseries "Rose Red", but that was written to be a TV miniseries, not a novel adaption.

I learned from this book, that this stor...more

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