You Like It Darker

[Linda]

I didnt realize that.

[Dixie]

Laurie was a free read on StephenKing.com in 2018. I remembered that one too so I looked it up.

[Erin]

This is my next one up to start!

[Julia]

Erin wrote: "This is my next one up to start!"
Looking forward to your thoughts..

[Annerlee]

Kandice wrote: "The first time I read a short story collection I read in order, but if I revisit, I jump around, or read just one or two."

I have it on audio book. Whilst the narration is amazingly good, I miss the freedom to jump around and review. I think this is especially true for a short story collect. I can see myself reading in hard copy at sone point.

[Annerlee]

Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream : I really liked this one

(view spoiler)[ I liked the tension between those who had faith in the unseen and those who didn’t - can you have faith in a religious way and not believe in dreams? How can you decide to lose faith in a neighbour you call a friend, because you refuse to believe in something supernatural?
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I think this could be King’s underlying message / challenge for this story? What do you think?

[Erin]

Just finished this one up and I really enjoyed the stories! Rattlesnakes would probably be my favorite out of the collection.

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Having recently read YLID & in particular Rattlesnakes, I thought I would reread Cujo. I'm not even 100 pages in yet but I have three things to mention.
Firstly, something that is putting me off a bit is that Tad is only 4 years old & yet he knows about monsters, werewolves & vampires & has apparently seen a lot of horror films. While his parents, Vic & Donna seem like regular people this is appallingly bad parenting. If Tad was 6 or 7 years old I might buy it, but not 4. No wonder he's so scared of the monster in his closet.
Secondly, I see that SK was already taking characters from a previous book & mentioning them in his new book as far back as 1981- in this case, Frank Dodd from The Dead Zone is in Cujo.
Thirdly, there's a character in Cujo called Holly. That name was always there in the back of his head, waiting to be used again one day.

[iain]

I loved this book of stories from the master of horror

[Susan]

I just finished this book and was pretty blown away... My ratings:
Two Talented Bastids: 4.5
The Fifth Step: 5
Willie the Weirdo: 4
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream: 4.5
Finn: 3
On Slide Inn Road: 5
Red Screen: 4
The Turbulence Expert: 5
Laurie: 5
Rattlesnakes: 3.5 ( I think I would have liked this better if I had read Cujo first)
The Dreamers: 3.5
The Answer Man: 5 (Easily my favorite, I cried)