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| Title | : | Everything's Eventual |
| Author | : | Stephen King |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 605 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 2005 by Pocket Books (first published January 1st 2002) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Short Stories. Fiction |
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Paperback | Pages: 605 pages Rating: 3.97 | 86047 Users | 2442 Reviews
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The first collection of stories Stephen King has published since Nightmares & Dreamscapes nine years ago, Everything's Eventual includes one O. Henry Prize winner, two other award winners, four stories published by The New Yorker, and "Riding the Bullet," King's original e-book, which attracted over half a million online readers and became the most famous short story of the decade."Riding the Bullet," published here on paper for the first time, is the story of Alan Parker, who's hitchhiking to see his dying mother but takes the wrong ride, farther than he ever intended. In "Lunch at the Gotham Café," a sparring couple's contentious lunch turns very, very bloody when the maître d' gets out of sorts. "1408," the audio story in print for the first time, is about a successful writer whose specialty is "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Graveyards" or "Ten Nights in Ten Haunted Houses," and though Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel doesn't kill him, he won't be writing about ghosts anymore. And in "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French," terror is déjà vu at 16,000 feet.
Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or about the mundane dreads of life, from quitting smoking to yard sales, Stephen King is at the top of his form in the fourteen dark tales assembled in Everything's Eventual. Intense, eerie, and instantly compelling, they announce the stunningly fertile imagination of perhaps the greatest storyteller of our time.
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| Original Title: | Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales |
| ISBN: | 1416524355 (ISBN13: 9781416524359) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
| Literary Awards: | British Fantasy Award Nominee for Best Collection (2003) |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 86047 Users | 2442 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Everything's Eventual
I haven't read much King, this is actually only the second book I've read by him (the first being Gunslinger). I've always wanted to get into him though, and I think this was the perfect book to start with. Fourteen short stories, a King smorgasbord, so to speak. Some I loved, some I just liked, some just weren't my thing - but overall it was a great collection. Every one was well written, and even if a story wasn't my favorite, I still found myself enjoying it. Highly recommended, and I'llThis is a reread for me, I first read this collection sometime back in the mid-2000s. I just read Elevation by SK, and it left me a little unsatisfied and wanting more of Kings magic. I wasnt ready to take on a full novel, so I grabbed this thinking I would just read a short story or two. Well, the next thing you know, Ive finished the whole thing. Everythings Eventual is a collection of 14 stories, or as the title states, 14 dark tales that I believe King wrote mostly in the 1990s. I always
Theres no doubt that Stephen King is great at writing short stories. Not all of the ones that were in this book were appealing to me, but several were. A couple of them were creepy in my opinion, so it may not be a wise idea to read them at night. My favorite ones were: Autopsy Room Four, The Man in the Black Suit, Everythings Eventual, L.Ts Theory of Pets, and The Road Virus Heads North. I only disliked a few, but not because they were bad, they just did not catch my attention. One of the
"Yet for me, there are few pleasures so excellent as sitting in my favorite chair on a cold night with a hot cup of tea, listening to the wind outside and reading a good story which I can complete in a single sitting."Stephen King, from his introduction I genuinely looked forward to reading one of these tales each day, and that's the highest praise I can give a collection of short stories.
This being my first short story collection by Mr. King, I will score each story individually, and average them together (for those of you who aren't keen with math, that means I'll add them up and divide by the number of stories - in this case fourteen). In order:(note: asterisks ***means spoilers)Autopsy Room Four: 3I know, Four is in the title, but somehow I still give it a 3. This story was a good example of fun old horror (and I don't actually mean fun). A man is trapped in his
There are no bad stories in this collection. Love it.Autopsy Room Four Super creepy and I love the ending. Four stars.The Man in the Black Suit Somewhat less definitive than I would have liked, but the descriptions are amazing. Three stars.All That You Love Will Be Carried Away - The lady or the tiger? Four stars.The Death of Jack Hamilton This was so sad, and also disgusting. King can definitely make you feel all the feels, even in only one short story. Four stars.In The Deathroom I think
It's always difficult to review a collection of short stories and this one is no exception. For the most part I thought it was a great collection of work but I did struggle a little to see a thread through these stories - was I looking for something not there or miss it completely?For Dark Tower fans and for those other kinds of people, those that haven't read The Dark Tower yet, The Little Sisters of Eluria is a treat. The titular Everything's Eventual is great creepy fun and L.T.'s Theory of
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