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If you are a Stephen King fan, THIS. WAS. GARBAGE. lol I'm returning it after having to skim and scan through this bs. I read about 40 pages, then gave up. Seriously the authors touch on Kings stories by telling a bit about it, a little paragraph or two summing up the story, then focusing the rest of the "chapter" talking about random stuff that has SOMETHING to do with each story. Filling the pages with random interviews about random things, from random people. I wish I had my hour or so I wasted reading this, back. Example, for Liseys Story, they tell a tiny bit about the story, then take a few pages interviewing a counselor about grief and losing someone. In the few pages about Thinner, we listen to them speak about weight loss... Another example is of course is IT, where they sum it up in about four paragraphs, then spend pages taking about how children in hospitals were part of a study to see if clowns scared them or helped their health when visiting the children in the hospital??? WHAT!!!???? So BORING!!! THEN after pages of boring us with stories or interviews with random people, Drs, etc. THEY LITERALLY GIVE AWAY THE ENDING TO EVERY FREAKING KING STORY!!! I am a fan of King, but have not read all of his stories and novels, but now I know the end to them all though! Thanks ladies... Another thing I hated were the little boxes in the middle of each page with absolutely useless tid bits and facts they thought pertained to the stories. They did not and most weren't even interesting. Another thing that irked me was the few interviews or statements, etc. from King himself, were from well known interviews that I've seen before. One was in an episode of Eli Roth's history of horror where he speaks of his addictions and getting hit by a car, then writing specific stories, under the influence, etc...it's stuff we've heard before many times from King, so it was nothing new. To me, this book had nothing much to do with King, just a way for the authors to make money OFF of his work by talking about random stuff. I don't know who the authors are, haven't cared to look, but I'm assuming they have never written ANYTHING good. All in all, this book is crap and I'm returning it. I even got it for a real discount, less than$10..Not worth it to keep. I would not recommend it to anyone, seriously anyone.
November 2020 · Books · verified purchase
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