You Like It Darker | Stephen King | Book Review | Stories Ranked
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- Опубликовано: 23 май 2024
- Stephen King’s newest release, YOU LIKE IT DARKER was excellent! Here are my thoughts on the collection and my ranking of the stories!!!
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The Moral I took from this collection is if you are unlucky enough to find a dead body, leave it be and keep quiet.
Haha maybe so
I carried that feeling for a lot of pages!
Just purchased my copy today and will be on my TBR for June. I'm so happy to hear good things about this one! I look forward to reading it!
Awesome!
I’m just glad will Patton did the audio! :)
Amen to that!
I picked it up yesterday and I tore through Two Talented Bastids. At the start, I was a little iffy, but once you read his account of the night, I was hooked. Great start to the book
Awesome! Definitely agree!
i love your channel so much!
Thank you!
Rattlesnakes was my favorite because of the horror element and references to Cujo, Pet Semetary, and Duma Key.
Perfect description of the short story's. I got mine in similar order. Willie the Weirdo was a favorite of mine. Cheers from Bangor, ME!! 🍻 📚
Thanks!
Love seeing you love those two novellas so much-glad the king hasn’t lost his touch! As someone who just loved 11/22/63 so much, I’m eager to go through basically everything the man has written
Awesome! How much King have you read?
@@BookishDrummer ‘Salem’s Lot, Apt Pupil, and 11/22/63!!
Yay! I was looking forward to hearing your thoughts on the book! I hope you have a pleasant and relaxing holiday weekend. :-)
Thank you!
I think the arrangement of the stories in this collection is top tier.
Agreed!
Great review. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
I loved this book. I just love kings short stories.
They’re great!
Nice summary. Got the audiobook version all set for my evening walk later ( it's bound to piss down now lol ).
Awesome! Thanks!
Pretty much agree with everything you said. This collection was perfect. Still can’t decide of my favourite story was the answer man or danny couglin’s dream.
Awesome! It was fantastic!
I finished the audiobook for these stories a few days ago, really liked them a lot! I think my ratings of them are pretty identical to yours! I was curious what you thought about this since you're a King expert to me and glad you liked it! It's always a good sign when stories stand out and you can tell them apart.
Ha also I was telling someone on Reddit about Rattlesnakes being a spoiler for Cujo and one random poster who never read the book, only saw Cujo the movie, started going off on me for saying Im spreading mistruths and then called me an idiot lol, glad we agree!
Hahaha! Glad you enjoyed them!
I think your #1 pick ( same as mine) would be amazing adapted to the big screen. I do prefer books to tv or movies but still, it's so evocative and deeply intriguing.
Agreed!
I’m halfway through Rattlesnakes now but so far I agree with you about your top two favorites:
1) Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream
2) Two Lucky Bastids
Got some family over right now and I’m counting the seconds till they leave so that I can continue reading 😅
lol I feel ya, and definitely agree
The Fith Step took a turn I didn't excpect. When I finished it I was like: What the f*ck did I just read. But it was still so good.
Agreed! I thought at first it was gonna be more literary, but BAM! lol
I agree! HahahHa I was shocked.
I'd like the red screen for the fact that it was short The other stories was just too much
Just curious, where would you put the collection on your Stephen king book ranking?
I’m not quite sure, it’d be very high. Maybe top 25 or 30.
It’s crazy how king can still write like this at his age!
Let’s hope he can keep it up!
Not quite get the idea of “Laurie”, to me it’s just a routine life with a sudden sad incident. Not as dark as “Willie the weirdo”, which has a creepy sudden ending.
He does slice of life stories like this sometimes. Especially lately
Where did you get that hoodie? I want one.😃
My mother in law got it for me for Christmas, she said she just googled Stephen king hoodie lol
@@BookishDrummer Cool Thanks
Im struggling to finish firestarter .I started 3 months ago and I lost interest in reading somehow..My goal was to read everything Stephen King ever released .I don't wanna quit it ,but it's so slow.I am at page 120 and nothing really happens
I disagree, but if you’re not enjoying it, put it down for now and come back to it later. He’s written so many books, you’re probably not gonna like all of them. I certainly don’t haha
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Red screen was all right, but it was kind of just a shorter version of another short story. He did called the bad kid. That story was much better.
I'm wondering if Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream is actually a novel. It's too close to call.
lol he’s published novellas in the past that are definitely novel lengths lol apt Pupil could have been a novel, and his longest was The Langeloirs haha like a 9 hour audio on its own and over 200 pages. Literally novel length lol
@@BookishDrummer actually Low Men In Yellow Coats was his longest that's considered a novella. But yeah, everything in Four Past Midnight could have been released as a novel but he just put them in a collection for whatever reason. Apt Pupil could have easily been a Bachman book. So could Secret Window Secret Garden. Both screamed in Bachman's voice. But so many of his "novellas" are actually novels that could have been released on their own and I believe would have have stood on their own merits. The way he did it though does work, especially if he wants to release as many stories as possible, the 4 story collections work for that purpose
I’ll say as a female reader…I was a little confused by Red Screen. Like not sure what he was trying to say, if anything at all. Not that authors HAVE to have something to say through their writing but…yeah lol
I don’t think he’s trying to say anything lol he’s just trying to tell a good story
@@BookishDrummer yeah probably not. I think it could have been better had it been longer. I liked the interview portion of the story.
@@constantlyreadingash same!