Sunday, December 25, 2011

Just After Sunset by Stephen King

A collection of unrelated short stories (and I’m not a short story lover). I only selected this book because of the author.

Ten stories. Different characters, different and unusual story plots. Each story has that good old Stephen King spin, from dead band players to a cat who has more than 9 lives.

All I can say is that the last story in this collection , “hits a “20” on a vomit scale of 1 to 10 – read past those words quickly and don’t re-read! Stephen King knows how to get his characters into some pickles! This one is stuck in a Port-o-Potty! The last book that I read of Mr. Kings was “Gerald’s Game” and the protagonist was stuck in handcuffs for most of the book. And after reading that I read “Intensity” by Dean Koontz and his main character kept getting locked up in hand-cuffs. Is there some unseen trend to my reading rotation?!?