The classic time-traveler’s dilemma: if you could go back in time and, say, kill Hitler before he could make his rise to power, and so prevent World War II and the holocaust—would you do it, not knowing what this act may change? In Stephen King’s 11.22.63 Jake Epping doesn’t get the chance to go back [...]
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First Lines: Full Dark, No Stars
December 8, 2010 – 23:26
Full Dark, No Stars, Stephen King’s latest collection of novellas, is just what it’s title suggest: very dark, with barely a spark of light to be seen. All stories invoke a stranger, and a variety of them as well: you have the stranger inside yourself; the stranger that you meet on a deserted back road; [...]
Binged
November 22, 2010 – 20:26
Chapter 28 of Stephen King’s Big Driver (the second novella in Full Dark, No Stars) starts of believable enough: But when [Tess] was in her office with her computer booted up, she only stared at the Apple welcome screen for the first five minutes … but a little while later, she … exited YouTube, Binged [...]
First Lines: Blockade Billy
July 12, 2010 – 22:45
Blockade Billy, Stephen King’s latest novella, is the story of William Blakely, the greatest Major League baseball player ever to be completely erased from the game’s history. It’s not a particularly special story, but it’s entertaining enough to keep you busy for an hour or two. In the edition I’ve read, the ‘chilling’ bonus story [...]
First Lines: Under the Dome
December 27, 2009 – 23:15
Stephen King’s modus operandi should be familiar: he puts normal people in abnormal situations and sees how they cope when trouble comes their way. Under the Dome follows this script to to the letter: a small town gets cut off from the rest of the world by an mysterious, invisible and unbreakable force field, and, [...]
