Fiction 05 Jul 2004 09:50 am
Everything’s Eventual
Everything’s Eventual
Stephen King
A great book of short stories by Stephen King. The book contains a mix of “hard-core” terror stories and more “psychological” ones. A few classical themes show up as well: the “buried alive” story, the “getting a ride from a dead guy” story, the “moving painting” story… but they are very nicely done, and always include some unexpected twist.
Also, this book includes “Riding the Bullet”, the short-story that was famously sold only online, a few years ago (supposedly with success); it’s a good chance to read the story in print, instead of on a computer’s screen (or, even worse, on a PDA).
King says in the book that his favourite story from this collection is “L.T.’s Theory of Pets”; it’s the story of the end of a failed marriage, and how pets fit into this event. I liked it a lot (it’s not your typical horror story up until very close to the end), but it’s not my favourite. I’m in fact torn between “Lunch at Gotham Café” (which is also, in a way, about a failed marriage) and “That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French” (about a couple going to Florida for a second honeymoon, but also, deep down, about what hell is like).
In the end, it’s a typical collection of Stephen King short stories. Which is not bad at all; for fans (and I am one), it’s a great book; when you finish it, you kind of wish there were a few more stories there.
