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Apt Pupil: pretty disturbing stuff. Impressive that King's writing made me hate an American teenage boy more than an actual Nazi war criminal. This is paced a little on the slow side but it's enticing the whole way through and the characters leap off the page. I had to take a little break when I got to the part with the cat, very nasty.

Shawshank: interesting to finally read after knowing the story for so many years. The film took this and dived a bit deeper, but the original story has all the important elements there. I found it lacked a little bit in characters, though, as these were all sort of like second hand reports of what somebody was like with Red telling the story. An easy and enjoyable read but surprisingly not memorable.