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indigojester/Elizabeth (Greece) (2012/09/06):
I recently re-read a collection of short stories by Stephen King, called “Everything’s Eventual”, that I got for free from bookmooch.com I am a fan of Mr King. He’s one of the easiest writers to read. He’s funny, he’s scary, has a knack for coming up with the unthinkable or at least, the improbable, and knows human nature well enough to be realistic without being too cynical and sweet without being melodramatic. His short stories are collections of fascinating odds and ends, of people who have just snapped or are facing the most bizarre situations, sometimes due to their previous choices, sometimes just because. He’s good enough to lull you and lure you in the story without insulting your intelligence or making you stir once. By the time you know what’s going on it’s too late already, you’ve found yourself in places you never meant to go to begin with, and all you can do is enjoy the ride.I have two personal favourites. The one that gave its title to the collection, ‘Everything is eventual’, is a story of a gifted young man that is recruited to use his special gift “for the general good of all.” But what exactly could this mean when the young man’s gift is the ability to kill from a distance? Wary yet? Believe me, you should be. And what about that other poor fellow, the one his wife left without an explanation? Not something that unusual, I know. But on top of that our friend decided to quit smoking too, and now he’s about to meet his ex and her lawyer in a restaurant, fighting both his feelings for her and his nicotine addiction. Whoops. Someone in the equation is far from stable, and they are all about to find out, at the ‘Lunch at the Gotham Café’. Nice! For more book reviews please visit my blog:
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