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.
This is very interesting Jack. Why do you think the author would make a book of abbreviated versions of other books? Would he have done this as a marketing ploy or for another reason? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this as you read multiple stories in one and might know more about the author throught his style of writing than I would. I find the concept of putting books that are already published (if they aren't, please correct me) into a format together intriguing and I wonder what was going through Stephen King's head when he did this. Your post is very well organized with few grammatical errors, and I think you did a great job describing the book.
ReplyDeleteTo begin with, I thought that your review was excellent, I have read a book like this one (abbreviated versions of Stephen King books) and I would say that I shared your thoughts. Additionally, I thought that you did an excellent job of stating who would not enjoy this book, though I would suggest, just for clarity's sake that you insert who would enjoy this book. Additionally, I thought you critiqued the book well as opposed to just putting positive things in your review. With regards to your summary, I would say that it told little about the actual story, you should be more vague and end with a cliffhanger so to entice potential readers. Lastly, I would say that you put a minimal amount of content about the actual story in this and focused on the setup of the book, I would alter that. All in all, great job Jack!
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