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- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743204670
- ISBN-13: 978-0743204675
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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75 of 76 people found the following review helpful
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This short story is being sold at a blatant rip-off price of £4.99, when it is simply one extract from the 'Everything's Eventual' anthology of short stories which sells for only £6.99. For the extra couple of pounds you get a massive book crammed with short stories. The publisher must think we are all mad. And by the way, don't be fooled by the 'novella' tag. This isn't a novella at all. A novella simply means 'short novel', and means a book that runs from 20,000-40,000 words. This is simply a short story, about 4000 words long. Take my advice and don't be ripped off as I was. I downloaded this story thinking it was a full-length novel, then I found out it was simply a short and not very great piece of fiction.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This really gets my goat! It wasn't until I'd read the first few pages of this that I realised it was a short
story previously published as part of an anthology, that I had already read back when dinosaurs ruled the earth! I
think that if short stories or novellas from collections get advertised under their own title (suggesting a previously unpublished or new to kindle read)that Amazon should state the name of the book the story was originally a part of. Its a rip - who can be expected to remember the titles of everything they have ever read? Swindle! Saying that, however, this is still a cracking short story, from back when Stephen King did what he does best.
story previously published as part of an anthology, that I had already read back when dinosaurs ruled the earth! I
think that if short stories or novellas from collections get advertised under their own title (suggesting a previously unpublished or new to kindle read)that Amazon should state the name of the book the story was originally a part of. Its a rip - who can be expected to remember the titles of everything they have ever read? Swindle! Saying that, however, this is still a cracking short story, from back when Stephen King did what he does best.
Format:Kindle Edition
A young university student finds out his mother has had a stroke and so rushes home to see her, hitch-hiking as his car is in the shop (no mention of possible buses or trains he could alternately use), and he is picked up... by a dead man.
This is standard Stephen King fare with his interest in all manner of ghosties and ghoulies, and the encounter with the dead guy isn't that great but what saves the story is the man's reminiscences of his mum. He looks back at his childhood, his mum's sacrifices being a single mother working several jobs to get him into college, and her current situation now - and it's surprisingly effective.
Maybe because it has a firm basis in reality and is something most of us will deal with in our own lives - the death of a close loved one, a parent - and what it means to contemplate our own mortality.
And, if you've got "Everything's Eventual", King writes in his introduction that the story is his way of dealing with his own mother's death. And, sentimental though it is, the sentiments and situation were real enough to make me roll a tear at the inevitable end. For that alone it's a powerful story, the added ghost is just the icing on the cake.
Speaking of "Everything's Eventual", this story is included in that book along with 13 other stories (including 1408), as well as a lengthy introduction by King and notes before each story. It's definitely worth paying a few pennies more than the price of this e-book.
This is standard Stephen King fare with his interest in all manner of ghosties and ghoulies, and the encounter with the dead guy isn't that great but what saves the story is the man's reminiscences of his mum. He looks back at his childhood, his mum's sacrifices being a single mother working several jobs to get him into college, and her current situation now - and it's surprisingly effective.
Maybe because it has a firm basis in reality and is something most of us will deal with in our own lives - the death of a close loved one, a parent - and what it means to contemplate our own mortality.
And, if you've got "Everything's Eventual", King writes in his introduction that the story is his way of dealing with his own mother's death. And, sentimental though it is, the sentiments and situation were real enough to make me roll a tear at the inevitable end. For that alone it's a powerful story, the added ghost is just the icing on the cake.
Speaking of "Everything's Eventual", this story is included in that book along with 13 other stories (including 1408), as well as a lengthy introduction by King and notes before each story. It's definitely worth paying a few pennies more than the price of this e-book.
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