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Pros & Cons
Pros
Joe hill is incredibly talented. Flipping through 496 pages goes fast with hill’s skills driving.
Another masterful work of art from one of my favorite authors working today. And those points leave me pondering what i just read. Skimmed through it quick.
In the tall grass with stephen king is the scariest story of the bunch.
Each story seems carefully crafted, and designed to horrify (mostly). The descriptions of the carnage are gorishly detailed. Some stories are bone chilling, while others give whimsical insight of the the unknown.
Cons
I was put off by the rambling, pretentious introduction. The first was plagiarized from steven king. That is as far as i got before deleting it from my kindle.
Highlights
Quality
I was very happy with the item it came in a timely manner.
Once again, joe hill delivers a quality read you would expect from him.
With that being said, it's worth noting that two of the best stories were cowritten by stephen king, and there is definitely a ... Read More
I'm biased as i love anything sk writes, some more than others, but this collectionof short (novela) stories by his son in coll... Read More
Shipping
You will like his stories, as they are fast paced and take you right into terror.
Competitiveness
Joe hill is even better at short stories than full-length novels imho.
Three star story:the devil on the staircase is a story child growing up and working on the stairs of sulle scale.
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- This product had a total of 2,824 reviews as of our last analysis date on Apr 18 2023.
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To the detriment of me missing some incredible plays
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I don’t know how the man does it the weakness of short stories is that sometimes it is difficult to develop a connection to the characters or to feel that the story itself isn’t quite fullyformed this collection doesn’t suffer from either
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And each story was completely different i never felt like i would mix up plot or characters and always felt like i was being given something fresh and original
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One of the things that really impresses me about joe hill is that he’s able to write such good bad characters
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There were characters in this i truly despised extremely bad people
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Sometimes you even root for them but not always
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Not quite there but some day
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