Stephen King - Night Shift / Children of the Corn
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I'm reading a book that has many Stephen King stories in it and is titled 'Stephen King's Night Shift including the chilling story of Children of the Corn'. It has a total of 20 stories in it and each of them are short variations of the original novels by Stephen King. So far I've read 15 of the 20 stories and I'm reading the 16th which is called 'Children of the Corn'. I'm going to summarize my favorite story (so far) but review the entire concept of the book.
My favorite story that I've read so far is 'Jerusalem's Lot' which mostly consists of a few men writing letters back and forth between each other and messages from all of their journals. One of the men recently moved into a new house. Ever since he had moved into the house, the noises that came from the house generations before started returning and everybody in the town had problems that they considered 'demonic'. The problems were all blamed on this man for moving in, including a baby with no eyes and other scary things.
I like this book but there are some things in it that are very disturbing so I wouldn't suggest reading it if you have a weak stomach of get frightened easily. Also, the storyline of these short stories are very hard to follow because things happen too quickly. It's not a book that a younger audience should read because of these things and the fact that there is a lot of cursing and swearing in this book. I'd rather read the entire novel of all of these stories instead of the shortened, very vague stories. Overall I would rate this book at about 6/10 for my personal liking of this book but I think I'd like the individual stories much better.
