Tag: Stephen King Books

A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction — Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking and shocking novels of all time.

To be fully honest here, I wanted to read this one for ages it feels like. And now I finally did.

I had a lot of expectations for this book which unfortunately this book didn’t live up to them. Sure it was okay but nothing more than that.

This book was fun, inserting, enjoyable and most of all it had the eerie feeling to it. From the first sentence in this book, you can feel the huge eerie vibe to it and you know that the events in this book won’t be good.

This is the first book written by Stephen King, so of course its rough at the edges and it doesn’t have the same scariness as his later work had but while reading it you can tell that it is a Stephen King book and that the master of terror is in the making. 

In my opinion Stephen King in this book overuses detail-cheating adverb, which made me give a lower rating than I wanted due to it distracting me at times and pulling the attention away from the main action.

The narration throughout this book is good, it wasn’t the same level of amazing as Stephen King’s later work but it was still surprisingly good for being the first book written by Stephen King.

The plot here was good, it has a huge scary moment which I think everyone knows which moment I talk about. The scene is the main reason why this book is the modern day classic which this book should be.

The characters here was okay for the most part. They weren’t the best but they weren’t the worse neither. 

There were moments that were boring and uninteresting. Which really disappointed me. Because I was expecting so much more from Stephen King. 

The ending here was just wow, it was very good. I can’t really say a lot without making spoilers. But the ending was a huge reward after reading this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

Billy Halleck, good husband and loving father, is both beneficiary and victim of the American good life: He has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding career as a lawyer but he is also fifty pounds overweight and edging into heart attack country.

To be honest this book doesn’t feel like a Stephen King book maybe because Stephen King tried to write it as Richard Bachman. This book is a fiction book and not a typical Stephen King horror book. 

This book is very quick to read due to its size. But it is still enjoyable and interesting. If you are a hardcore Stephen King fan like me you all find his book a little bit unusual because as I’ve said before it doesn’t seem like a typical Stephen King book. 

The characters in this book are okay but there were something missing and they just didn’t work for me. Because they didn’t have the depth which most characters in Stephen King’s books have. There are very few characters in this book and for the most part there are good characters but none of them aren’t super memorable. 

The plot here was okay for the most part but still it wasn’t on the level with some other Stephen King level when you compare it with the books he had written under his  real name. 

The premise of the plot was interesting but the way it was presented to us was some how boring in a way. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”

I fucking love this book is so fucking good. I had low expectations for this book which I shouldn’t have had because this book is banger.

This book isn’t the typical Stephen king book because there is no monster chasing the main character around but rather human nature is the monster in this book. The monster in this book is people who will go to great lengths for something they believe which will save their country and the entire world no matter how many people they kill in the process. For me this is more scarier than demon clowns, killer cars and vampires because in the end the true villains are the humans. 

The beginning of this book was very slow and kind of boring in a way because it was so slow and nothing exciting or interesting was happening. But after like 30 or so pages the book gets addicting because you won’t be able to put it down because it gets so interesting. That’s what makes Stephen King one of the greatest authors of all time because he can create so interesting and so addictive plots.

The main characters here feel like real human beings which makes me love this book even more. Even the side characters feel like real human beings. To be honest it all the characters feels like I wouldn’t have a problem being good friends with them if they were real human beings. Every character in this book has something which makes her or him to a unique character on their own and they really stand out from the rest. 

This book gives a huge mental asylum vibe especially the “back room” part of this book which I loved. It has something evil and eerie to it, even thou there are no clowns, scary serial killer or a boogyman running around in this book. It just the evil and fucked up things which humans can do to another human being to get what they want.

The writing style in this book the best thing ever, if you have read some of the most popular Stephen King books then you will know what I’m talking about. Because this book has the typical Stephen king writing style which is like the literature version of ecstasy. Once you start reading this book you won’t be able to stop or put it down is what I meant when I’ve said literature version of ecstasy.

The ending has the huge Stranger Things (Season 1) vibe to it which really made me love the book even more because I love this kind of vibe when it feels like a classic horror story with good plot, amazing characters and so much more to it. The ending don’t have a twist to it or anything, the ending is kind of obvious in this book but I personally didn’t mind this.

I give this book 5 / 5

Thousands of miles away from the small township of ‘Salem’s Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to ‘Salem’s Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.

The famous Salems Lot by Stephen King, I finally read it and oh boy was it disappointing ? unfortunately it was. I had high hopes for this book which it didn’t live up to. This one is a Stephen King classic which oh boy I really wished to like but didn’t. Getting into this book I really wanted to love this book but it turned out to be a book which I didn’t care about so much. 

The writing style in this one didn’t feel like quit Stephen King which might have something to do with it being one of his early works. But it didn’t give the horror vibe which almost every Stephen King book does give the reader. 

There were some good moments which really made the chills run down your spine but there were very few of these moments which is again very disappointing at least for me. 

The plot itself is amazing but I really had a hard time with connecting it. I don’t know why because Im a huge fan of horror stories which involves something bad going on in a rural town.

The ending in my opinion was the best thing in this whole book. Need to say that the ending was very fast which is a typical Stephen King thing which happens in every book and story he writes. And which I love. 

However I need to give this book a lots of points for giving us a pictures how vampires should look like and not just some Twilight bull shit. 

This book isn’t so good as many other Stephen King books but it is of course a book which every Stephen King fan MUST read. 

To be fully honest with you, I need to say that this book is my least favourite book right after “Elevation” written by Stephen King (so far).

I give this book 2 / 5