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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781416549857
ISBN number: 1416549854
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Page Count: 464
Printing Date: May 01, 2007
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EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL
Features the tale '1408,' now a Dimension Films motion picture, starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.
Also inside is the blockbuster eBook 'Riding the Bullet,' the original audio story 'In the Deathroom,' plus eleven more boundary-pushing fiction masterworks that will keep you awake until daybreak.
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The number of stars references the closest average for the thirteen stories in this book that I read. I didn't bother with The Little Sisters of Eluria, because I am not a fan of the Dark Tower Saga, and I didn't really want to spend the time reading an eighty page "short story" that I wouldn't enjoy anyway.
For each of the rest, a star value is below, along with any thoughts that I had on them.
Autopsy Room Four 3
The Road Virus Heads North 3
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French 3
Riding the Bullet 3
Pretty average stories, all told. Nothing new, original, or particularly well done in any of them. The third of these has a particularly obnoxious title, as if the author thought that it was cute to say Deja Vu in 11 words. Not for that, I would have given it four stars, as the ending is slightly unexpected. As even the author references, Riding the Bullet (a hitchhiker gets picked up by a ghost), Autopsy Room Four (autopsied alive), and That Feeling... (the temporal quantum bubble of repeitition) are pretty standard fare for horror novelists and writers in general. The Road Virus Heads North is an interesting enough story, or it would be, if it didn't strike me as stolen from a movie or television show, I can't remember which, featuring a painting of a house with a fence out front, where a boy is, and then isn't. For some reason, the latter was way scarier, and the story in this book is pretty dull by comparison.
L. T.'s Theory of Pets 2
The Death of Jack Hamilton 2
Luckey Quarter 2
These three stories have little to recommend them. The very first is, like the very first four stories, a retelling of what happens in a classical urban legend. In this case, though, it is more about what happened BEFORE that. Unfortunately, what happened BEFORE that is boring. The second is about a friend of John . Not particularly good, but quite boring. The third is just lacking in real detail. It has no horror, it has little enough fiction. If anything, it seems like a vignette from The Dead Zone mixed with a little bit of Everyday America. Boooring.
The Man in the Black Suit 3
I'm not surprised that this story won an O. Henry award, per se. Rather, I am surprised that Stephen King wrote it. It is a good story, although it, again, feels like something that is taken out of IT. It was fun to read, though.
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away 4
This was one of the better stories in the collection. This one focuses on a purveyor of Latrinalia (look it up). This was well-written and believable. This is what short stories should be. I liked the ending, as well.
In the Deathroom 4
This was also really interesting. In a way, it departed, quite a bit, from normal King-esque horror. Instead of the quotidian fears, this one is quite reasonable. That doesn't stop it from being interesting, though. I particularly liked the ending. I thought that it was nice that he stuck with the optimism even through the end, rather than the more obvious ending of having the character wake up screaming and having the whole story his imaginings as he is tortured.
Everything's Eventual 4
The titular story of the collection, and one of its longer offerings as well. It also happens to be one of the best. Imagine what you would do if you received seventy dollars every week (in addition to free rent, no bills, all the food and frivolities you can write on a white board), but you had to spend it all? This is an interesting question, and the story could easily have been expanded into a novel akin to something that Bentley Little would write. The fact that it is a tight little short story makes it all the saucier.
Lunch at the Gotham Café 4
This is a good example of how the quotidian can be quite good. And disturbing. An unpleasant lunch spoiled by the deranged, psychopathic snap of a Mideast Side New York maitre d. It was funny, particularly, when the divorcing wife and husband are forced to confront a non-quotidian event, and are not brought together by it, but driven further apart. There is some real characterization here, and it makes the collection worth reading.
1408 4
This story gets a special mention solely because it nearly scared me into a bowel movement. It is also a pretty uninspired tale of the horrors of a haunted hotel room (again, a rehash of old ideas). It did not scare me on any of its own merits, but in conjunction with the Dolphin Hotel from A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami. As anyone who has read these two novels knows, there is a haunted, of sorts, hotel in them. It is called the Hotel Dolphin. That is the name of the hotel where room 1408 is. Creepy coincidence? Perhaps.
So, in general, nothing here is particularly ... Read More
Rated by buyers 
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By the third story I had to say out loud what I had been thinking after the very first story - Stephen King did not outdo himself with this book. I was disappointed in that the stories did not grip me. I had been salivating to borrow the book from a friend. At the end of each story I was left wanting (in a bad way) and it had nothing to do with the usual ambiguous endings that i love. It just left me feeling unsatisfied. The hardest one to get through was 'The Little Sisters of Eluria' followed by 'Death of Jack Hamilton'. Those really made me want to give up. If i didn't have a touch of OCD which compels me to finish a book, i would have done just that. In fact i crossed the Dark Tower series off my wishlist after that. The former story went on longer than it should and didn't deliver and the latter was just plain boring.
After seeing the other reviews i had to ask myself - am I the only one who felt like this? Fortunately a friend of mine, an SK fan also felt the same way.
Still excited about the 5 SK books I have waiting on the bookshelf.
Alana
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Everything's Eventual Movie Tie-In: 14 Dark Tales
Great short stories here by an author that truly understands the short story. There are a few great tie-ins to the Dark Tower series in several of the short stories in this collection, so if you're a fan of the Dark Tower books, this is a great book to pick up.
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The introductory essay on short story-writing is worth the price of this collection alone; fans of King's "On Writing" book will want to pick this up for that reason. General fiction fans may find the O. Henry-winning story "The Man in the Black Suit" to their tastes, while more diehard fans will delight over the "Dark Tower" novella included. Add to that the short story "1408" (the basis for the John Cusack movie) and other rare King bits such as the eBook-only "Riding the Bullet" and you have King's most consistent collection to date...until his subsequent one is released in Fall 2008, of course.
NOTE: This "movie tie-in" version (for the "1408" adaptation) does not include any new material; it is simply a new printing of the same collection that was originally published in 2001.
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I have read a lot of Stephen King. I adore his short storis the best. I find his longer stuff to be a long winded. In fact it's usually the middle where I find myself in imaginary doledrums. I like this collection. Buy it in hardback, because you'll want to read this more than once.
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