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Just After Sunset: Stories |  | Author: Stephen King
Publisher: Scribner
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ISBN: 1416584080
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Publication Date: November 11, 2008
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 Okay for Stephen King Fans March 8, 2010
Vladdy Trout (Florida, USA)
This collection is okay for Stephen King fans but for those new to the master, a better collection to read is his Night Shift.
 Enjoyable Collection February 9, 2010
Alison (Derbyshire, UK)
This was my first experience of a collection of Stephen King short stories. There is a real variety of different types of stories which vary in length from 10 pages to 80 pages. I enjoyed each of the thirteen stories but my three particular favourites were "N." (a great story about a psychiatrist, patient and a strange case of OCD), "Stationary Bike" (a blurring of reality that starts well but takes a worrying turn) and "Gingerbread Girl" (featuring a psychopath and a girl running for her life).
It's a chunky book of over 500 pages but it read well and none of the stories felt arduous or boring. It's interesting that some reviewers say this is not King's best work. I have not read any of his previous short story collections, but if they are stronger than this then I'll be in for a treat.
All-in-all a very interesting and enjoyable. If you've not tried short stories before then give this a go.
 Hit and Miss February 9, 2010
Bobby Esck (Flint, MI USA)
This collection is extremely hit and miss. Now keep in mind, when King misses, it's bad. Some of these stories were complete wastes of time. I'm a huge King fan -- though maybe not a "constant reader" like some of you -- but there were some bad entries here. There's no getting around that.
HOWEVER, when it's a hit, it's out of the park. Some of these shorts have stayed with me for days or even weeks after finishing them. The Gingerbread Girl, N., A Very Tight Place, Rest Stop -- these were all home runs in my opinion, and enough to make this book worth the price.
Could Have Been Better February 9, 2010
Jasmyn A. Dieck (USA)
I'd like to start by saying that I'm not a big fan of short stories. There never seems to be enough time to develop anything. However, I also love Stephen King, so I found myself reading a book of his short stories thinking that it would probably be ok as one great would more than cancel out the bad. For the most part it was a great book. There were only a couple of the stories that didn't please me as much as they could have...had they been developed and expanded into full size books. So I'll give a short wrap-up of each one, but I don't want to give too much away.
1. Willa was a nice short little story to get the blood flowing and the eyes working. It was sweet and happy with a bit of sadness tossed in for flavor.
2. The Gingerbread Girl is a story of running, and how running can either save you or...well...not save you I guess. A woman finds herself pitted against quite a psycho.
3. Harvey's dream left me with one question....What? I totally missed the point on this one.
4. Rest Stop was one of the best in the book. A look at what would you do if you found yourself in a situation you needed to handle, but weren't sure if you could.
5. Stationary Bike was another excellent one, where imagination meets reality and a man may have gone too far trying to get into shape.
6. The Things They Left Behind was touching and moving, but it left me wondering What? agian. It was well written, but the topic deserved to have more to it than just a short story.
7. Graduation Afternoon is a great start for a book. It reads almost as if King started to write one and then stopped after the first chapter.
8. N. is probably my favorite in the book and actually kept me up late to finish. Good old fashioned Stephen King horror.
9. The Cat From Hell had me laughing, but I don't think I was supposed to. (Richard you will not want to read this one.)
10. The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates is one I hardy even remember reading. A story about moving on and accepting death.
11. Mute was very entertaining if predictable. What happens when you confess your innermost thoughts to a hitchhiker that you think is deaf and mute? Well, let me tell you it isn't what you expect.
12. Ayana reminded a bit of The Green Mile. A story of healing and miracles.
13. A Very Tight Place is probably my second favorite in the book. A good old fashioned suspense about a neighbor that takes his frustrations out on his gay neighbor...but maybe the tables will end up being turned.
So, there you have it. It wasn't a waste of time, but I would have ripped some of those pages out had I been the editor. But if I did that then we wouldn't have the magical number of thirteen stories!
3.5/5
You should get more than just okay from King February 5, 2010
mrliteral
There was a time when the arrival of a Stephen King novel was a cause for celebration. Of late, however, his writing has been rather lacking. Lisey's Story, Dreamcatcher, From a Buick 8 and The Colorado Kid are all very flawed books. The Cell was a bit better though hardly vintage King, and while Blaze was great, it was also not really a recent book but rather a "lost" novel from King's most fruitful period in the 1970s and 1980s.
It's little wonder that I keep postponing my reading of Duma Key and have actually skipped over that one to read Just After Sunset, his latest short story collection. The good news is it's not a bad collection, but the bad news is that it is not King at his peak. The fourteen stories range in quality from so-so to good: there is nothing really bad here, but there is also nothing really great.
Among the best in the lot is N, a distinctly Lovecraftean story about an amateur photographer who happens upon Ackerman's Field, a bit of land that drives any who view it into madness. A Very Tight Place is also good, involving a man put by his enemy in a very unpleasant trap.
As stated earlier, there are no really bad stories, but there are a couple weak ones such as Harvey's Dream, in which a man relates a dream that may or may not predict the future. What's worse is there are some stories that have a been-there-done-that feel, in which King seems to be rehashing old story ideas. Rest Stop is a good example of this, in which the main character is a writer who adopts two different personalities to fit his writing, a theme already explored thoroughly in books like The Dark Half and Misery.
Will this please King fans? Probably not, as they will know he's done better and more original work. Will it please non-King fans? Probably. The unoriginality will not be an issue and so-so King is still better than many other writers at their best. I'd recommend this book only for those in the latter group, though if you're a King fan, you'll probably pick this one up despite any discouragements and make your own judgment.
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