Mass Market Paperback, 583 pages
English language
Published Jan. 8, 2003 by Pocket Books.
International bestselling author Stephen King is in terrifying top form with his first collection of short stories in almost a decade. In this spine-chilling compilation, King takes readers down a road less traveled (for good reason) in the blockbuster e-Book "Riding the Bullet," bad table service turns bloody when you stop in for "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," and terror becomes deja vu all over again when you get "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What IT IS in French"--along with eleven more stories that will keep you awake until daybreak. Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time. --back cover
Ben mi geliştim, Stephen King kötü mü öykü yazıyor, o zamanlar mı dandikti yazdıkları?..
Koca kitapta bir tane beğendiğim, iki, üç tane "fena olmamış ama son dakikada batırmış" dediğim öykü vardı. Geri kalanlarıysa öyle amatörce kurgulanmış, öyle boş beleş yazılmış ki kitabı yarıda bırakacaktım neredeyse.
Fourteen stories, ranging from good to mediocre. Most of them are ghost stories of one kind or another, about haunted people or places. Some have happy endings, others don't.
The best, I think, was "Riding the bullet", about a student who hitchhikes home to see his mother who has taken ill and is in hospital. I found the description of hitchhiking interesting, and it recalled a vanished age. [a:Arthur Goldstuck|565665|Arthur Goldstuck|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] once wrote a short story about a vanishing hitchhiker, an urban legend, actually. But it seems that all hitchhikers have vanished. No one I know has hitchhiked since about the mid-1970s, ever since car hijacking became the preferred method of vehicle theft.
The worst story in the collection in my view was "1408", about a haunted hotel room. I kept falling asleep, even during the bits that were clearly meant to be the most exciting.
I thought some of …
Fourteen stories, ranging from good to mediocre. Most of them are ghost stories of one kind or another, about haunted people or places. Some have happy endings, others don't.
The best, I think, was "Riding the bullet", about a student who hitchhikes home to see his mother who has taken ill and is in hospital. I found the description of hitchhiking interesting, and it recalled a vanished age. [a:Arthur Goldstuck|565665|Arthur Goldstuck|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] once wrote a short story about a vanishing hitchhiker, an urban legend, actually. But it seems that all hitchhikers have vanished. No one I know has hitchhiked since about the mid-1970s, ever since car hijacking became the preferred method of vehicle theft.
The worst story in the collection in my view was "1408", about a haunted hotel room. I kept falling asleep, even during the bits that were clearly meant to be the most exciting.
I thought some of the stories rated four stars, others rated two, so I gave the book as a whole three stars.
Challenging on many levels and loaded with memorable monster moments, "It" is a complex tale of horror, trauma, and the power of friendship...even if King has a difficult time capturing believable child voices.
