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Statistics: Posted by Ronster — Thu Aug 27, 2020 4:12 pm
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If it Bleeds- Stephen King. Like Full Throttle by his son (Joe Hill), this is a book of novellas. Four stories. Two of them were beautiful and touching. One of them was great. And one of them was not good. But overall, that's a pretty good track record and it was still a great experience. The first two stories are great character pieces that tell small stories in a beautiful way. I really loved them. The last story was a more traditional Stephen King story of regret, pain and flawed characters. The titular story, however, was a Holly Gibney story, who is a character in his detective noir stories (Outsider, Mr. Mercedes, etc.). I personally hated this story because the protagonist, Holly Gibney, is a "magical autistic" person. And I love Stephen King- I really do. I think he's a masterful writer. But he's had this fascination with "magical" people on the spectrum throughout his history. And while this was more acceptable twenty years ago, it's EXTREMELY tone deaf now, especially to a parent of an autistic son. It was very off-putting and just rubbed me the wrong way. That said, the other three stories are so good, that I still highly recommend this book.
Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Tue Aug 04, 2020 12:16 pm
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Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Sun Jul 26, 2020 11:50 am
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Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Sun Jul 26, 2020 11:47 am
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So this book is a collection of novellas and short stories, and they have a general theme of "high octane"? Maybe? But not really. And that's not important. As I'm reading these stories, all of which have great ideas and interesting characters, I realized what my problem is: they lack humanity. And then I realized that's the same problem with Hill's books that I didn't like as much (NOS4A2 and Strange Weather)- they don't have characters that you care about. They characters are unique and interesting in theory, but they lack heart. You kind of just don't give a shit one way or the other. Especially in this book, a lot of the stories main characters seem to sacrifice any kind of heart for just being "tough as shit." And while that's kind of cool, it also seems immature in retrospect. On the other hand, Hills books that I really liked (Locke & Key and The Fireman) have that element that's missing from here.
I don't know, maybe it's just me. But these stories just didn't affect me.
Statistics: Posted by Kyle — Tue Jun 09, 2020 2:34 pm
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