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Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Volume I (1993)

by Stephen King(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0743583353 (ISBN13: 9780743583350)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Simon & Schuster Audio

review 1: I know better, I know better, I know better. Damn it I know better than to read short stories. They are so boring, pointless and worthless. I picked up three volumes of Nightmares and Dreamscapes in a used bookstore for $1 each and now I know why they are in perfect condition because no one could get past the first set. UGH. I was able to get through the first five but even listening to this in the car, I cannot force myself to listen to anymore of this crap. Stephen King writes monster-sized books for a reason because he cannot come to the damn point and even in a short story he rambles to the point of madness about inconsequential details that detract from the story or just have no bearing. I gave up on Stephen King a long time ago and should have stuck to my gu... morens and passed up this great deal. Damn it I knew better!
review 2: ***1/2I've had this collection on my shelf longer than most of my books, having picked it up when I was a kid. At that time, I didn't always finish the books I started, and there were several Stephen King books lying around unfinished, not due any lack of quality in the writing, but more my own short attention span. I've since gone back and read all of these; "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" was last on my list. Reading it over, I wonder why I didn't get through the whole thing as a kid--not because it doesn't get a little slow in the middle, because it certainly does, but because I had some vague memory of almost all of the stories in this collection, and must not have skipped many when I first picked it up.Almost all of the stories are tales of horror and bizarre violence. However, the book ends with a poem, and before that a nonfiction story about his son's team's clinching of the Maine State Little League Championship in 1989, which turns out to be one of the best stories in the book. Other highlights are "Chattery Teeth," "Popsy," "The Night Flier" (those two stories appear side by side, and for good reason, as King states in the afterword, and as the reader can probably guess), "Dolan's Cadillac," and "Rainy Season," among others. "Sorry, Right Number" I remembered very well, both because of its powerful, knock-you-out ending, and also because it's a screenplay that was made into a great episode of "Tales from the Darkside," which I happened to see, for the second time, only recently. The Sherlock Holmes story, "The Doctor's Case" kinda bored the hell out of me, and "It Grows on You" and "My Pretty Pony" were just OK, but most of the stories in "Nightmares and Dreamscapes" are satisfactory, and a few contain startling and bizarre ideas and images I haven't seen before ("The Moving Finger," "Dedication"). less

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