Books by Richard Matheson
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review 1: Duel is a classic and Throttle is an incredible tribute and yet is original and compelling in its own right- sort of a cross between Sons of Anarchy and Breaking Bad. I saw that a couple reviewers thought Throttle was racist. To that I say, don't confuse the character with the au...
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review 1: This is an older collection of short stories and it is a curious anthology. The stories read like "Twilight Zone" script pitches - they are all very short, with no character development whatsoever. There is an interesting idea behind most of them, and most feature some sort ...
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review 1: It was an enjoyable story, except for that damn, annoying old man who kept interrupting, often in the middle of a sentence, to say something stupid! "Look at that! 3 words in a row that start with 'F' or 'D'" etc... Every time (3 times) that he mentioned the word 'Sofa' he had to...
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review 1: Hated this book!! So disappointed. I thought it was based on the movie... But the movie was only based on 15 pages of this book. That's it!! The rest is short stories. And not good ones. IF someone is going to read this book I ONLY recommend these stories: button button, girl of...
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review 1: As a big Matheson fan I found this short story collection somewhat disappointing. It is a quick read and some of the stories habe great premises (Button Botton, Dying Room), but they lack the trade mark Matheson shock-ending. Matheson is usually one of those writers who, no matte...
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review 1: The first 3/4 of the book gets 4.5 stars. At that point, it was a truly intriguing book that I didn't want to put down. The last 1/4 gets practically no stars. I'm a happy ending type of person. In my readings I prefer the loose ends to be tied off and an actual resolution to occ...