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reviewed Different Seasons by Stephen King (Stephen King Collections, #2)

Stephen King: Different Seasons (EBook, 1982, Warner Books) 4 stars

Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”—set in the fictional town …

Difficult, but well done

4 stars

4 stories that were good. I enjoyed 3 of them. Apt Pupil is not so much something one enjoys, but rather uses to inoculate oneself from ignorance that evil exists. Shawshank was addicting. The Body had characters you care about, even tho they toss off slurs. The Breathing Method is short and a bit oblong. But once it gets to Xmas, the story sinks its teeth.

I think i recommend this book and its stories. But they can be an uneasy read. Written in a time, and about times, that had not come to grips with the morals we have now. If you can face the past for its inequities, these may be worthwhile.

Also, the reader, Frank Muller, is fantastic.