![]() ![]() ![]() So I came into this collection with little experience of King’s short fiction, although I did remember Jenny’s warning that the stories are more concept heavy and scarier than his novels. ![]() Prior to reading Four Past Midnight, I had only read one of King’s story/novella collections, Hearts in Atlantis, which I read primarily for the story “Low Men in Yellow Coats” (King fans will understand why this particular story is significant). So I’m gradually working on catching up, not with a definite goal of reading all his books-he’s too prolific for me to make that a goal-but with an eye to filling in some of the gaps in my King reading. (My favorites are The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Talisman, and the remarkable seven-volume Dark Tower series.) But because I was a late convert to King, there are lots of his books that I haven’t gotten around to. It turns out that Jenny was right (no surprise there), and since reading The Dead Zone, I’ve become a King fan, gobbling up his novels one after the other. I had avoided King before that, assuming that his books were all about terror-long on plot, short on character, theme, and linguistic excellence. ![]() It’s been well over 10 years since Jenny pressed a copy of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone into my hands, insisting that (1) it would not give me nightmares and that (2) I would really enjoy it. ![]()
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