![]() ![]() ![]() 45" - two films that are not mentioned by the main character, who bolsters her revenge-courage with a blockbuster rental spree. king is at his best when he is balancing light and dark, humanity and inhumanity, demonstrating the possibility of both existing side by side - but this teeter-totter is overly weighted down with the latter.Īlso, trigger warning for survivors of sexual assault, in a story that is basically a retelling of "i spit on your grave" and "ms. i don't feel like these stories do anything but bring us into the dark and leave us there. king's premise, which he overtly and unnecessarily states in the afterword, is that difficult and dark things are difficult and dark, and how well can you know someone, really? duh. most of these stories, out of five in all, had very little to redeem them. this book provoked the "don't like" reaction. ![]() I picked this up randomly at the library because i wanted something light, and because i sometimes like stephen king a lot, but i also sometimes don't. ![]()
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