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I've been waiting for Stephen King to finally return to the style of writing that I, and apparently many others, having been missing for so long; the style that was so well represented in The Bachman Books, The Shining, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, Cujo, Gerald's Game and a handful of others.

In those masterpieces, and in this book, King enters the human mind and demonstrates the horror in each of us. He does this by creating realistic circumstances that we can all relate to, and demonstrating how terrifying events can ensue. He does this without resort to corporeal beings that have become increasingly silly and absurd over time. After all, isn't reality so much more potentially horrifying than the "over the top", stupid happenings in so many of King's works?

Duma Key is a perfect example. The first two-thirds of the book are a fine example of King's ability to get inside the head of a damaged human being and write masterfully. The final third of the book is simply too bizarre for words and, in my opinion, ruined what could have been an excellent book. The Gunslinger books are just unreadable (at least to me). Even in books such as The Dome, with unbelievable and impossible sets of events, King's ability to examine the working of the human mind (especially in those that happen to be defective) is what sets him apart from his contemporaries.

The four novellas contained in this collection bring to mind the Bachman Books, and that is a very good thing. Stick to realism, Stephen King. It is far more terrifying than fantasy.


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Full Dark No Stars Stephen King 9781439192566 Books Reviews

4 stories, all quick reads. The first is very much a character study that really goes no place in particular. It is sad and a touch haunting but did not strike me as a must experience story. The second was a fun read. It had more of the kind of King vibe that I enjoy in this one. The start was good not great, the middle (short story so not much of one) was ok. It had a slight private eye feel to it. And of course the end. Small twist but overall a let down. Sometimes I just want the victims to be as brutal as the people that attack them. The third story really was a WTH did I just read moment for me. Very dark very disturbing but at the same time I could see people feeling the same way as the antagonist did in this particular story. The final story was probably my favorite and could have made for a great 300 page book with some side characters and some POV from the husband. But alas it's a short story so we get what's offered. If you enjoyed Gone Girl, the movie ( never read the book 🙁) then this story is fantastic. Good suspense, great mystery. And for once King gave me an ending that I could live with and not feel cheated. Though he did drag it out a bit for no apparent reason. Overall 1 great & 3 ho hum stories was what I came out with. Up to you to decide if you can live with that figure & who knows maybe you enjoy a different part/style of Kings writing than I do.
Each of these novellas delivers a hard, tough and bleak perspective on humanity. Yes, we find characters with whom we can sympathise, but these have been brought into bad places by others whose terrible deeds wreak havoc. There is plenty of violence, some of it sexual, and each story is tense and taut. Gripping is an understatement.

"The souls of humans have become poor and transparent things" says the Devil in Fair Extension, the least violent but for me, the most bleak of the tales. These words could serve as an epigraph to the collection. It is visceral, disturbing and although King says in the Afterword that he doesn't want to make readers think as they read, yet throughout Full Dark, No Stars I was challenged intellectually as well as emotionally. What would I do in, or following, the situations depicted here? How do we grapple with the age old problem of evil? The concept of revenge is another age old philosophical and literary concern, wrenched open again for our consideration by Stephen King.

If you are a King fan you'll have this book already. If you are an occasional reader of his work, then I urge you to grab a copy asap. It ranks with his best.
I am not that familiar with Stephen King. My genre tastes typically flow to the realistic rather than the unreal (think crime noir rather than sci-fi). But I had heard that FULL DARK, NO STARS was set in the real world we know, dark and dangerous. So I picked it up. And it was a worthwhile choice.

Four stories, from shorter to longer, comprise this volume. 1922 is a tale of that old cliché the perfect crime gone wrong. In this case, what goes wrong, however, is not some flaw in the execution of the crime itself, but in underestimating the emotional and psychological toll on the perpetrators. Big Driver is also from that straight cliché book the revenge tale. But this one has, what I considered at least, to be a very interesting twist about how the damsel got into distress in the first place. Fair Extension, the shortest story here, is also the one with a supernatural feel to it. Though I have to admit, I did not mind it as much as I thought. In fact, it was tight, fast and delivered a nice sucker punch. The book ends with A Good Marriage, a fictitious tale based on an unfortunately all too true event of the past decade.

I can understand why King is so successful. The stories display a strong imagination, such that even the above-mentioned clichés take on a fresh scent. The man knows how to paint a scene and wrap the reader around in it.

Like a number of authors, however, King is also weak on dialogue. People do not really speak the way the characters here do, and it was an unfortunate distraction. Also, my peeve is that characters’ inner voices tend to be externalized too much, such as in Big Driver with its talking GPS. A person’s inner voice, softly whispering dark possibilities into one’s ear, strikes me as a more effective way to build the suspense.

But hey, I am not the one selling a billion books. King is, and it shows.
I've been waiting for Stephen King to finally return to the style of writing that I, and apparently many others, having been missing for so long; the style that was so well represented in The Bachman Books, The Shining, Misery, Dolores Claiborne, Cujo, Gerald's Game and a handful of others.

In those masterpieces, and in this book, King enters the human mind and demonstrates the horror in each of us. He does this by creating realistic circumstances that we can all relate to, and demonstrating how terrifying events can ensue. He does this without resort to corporeal beings that have become increasingly silly and absurd over time. After all, isn't reality so much more potentially horrifying than the "over the top", stupid happenings in so many of King's works?

Duma Key is a perfect example. The first two-thirds of the book are a fine example of King's ability to get inside the head of a damaged human being and write masterfully. The final third of the book is simply too bizarre for words and, in my opinion, ruined what could have been an excellent book. The Gunslinger books are just unreadable (at least to me). Even in books such as The Dome, with unbelievable and impossible sets of events, King's ability to examine the working of the human mind (especially in those that happen to be defective) is what sets him apart from his contemporaries.

The four novellas contained in this collection bring to mind the Bachman Books, and that is a very good thing. Stick to realism, Stephen King. It is far more terrifying than fantasy.