Technical Data: Collection of four short stories of 1990. The total is about 800 pages, so it's best to find a separate edition with stories, for convenience. Edition recommended and cost : Sperling Paperback, as usual. Price € 8.40. In the picture the volume with the first two stories.
Comment: Each of the four stories is different story, moments of flash captured by the King and turned into a short story
- The Langoliers : nightmare later transformed into a TV series (without large actually happened). Some passengers of a plane landing in discovering Somehow the plane passed through the space-time and are finding themselves in a parallel world equal to them. But no other living thing ... if not the Langoliers, monsters with shark teeth that are eaten whole. Including the world they are, munching on the walls, grass, metal.
- Secret Window, Secret Garden : Since this story was adapted Secret Window, starring Johnny Depp movie of 2004. It tells the story of a writer haunted by a man who accuses him of stealing a story and claiming damages, or threatens to retaliate.
- The cop bibli Otec: a nightmare as a kid. what could the police officer who oversees the library in case you forget to return a book or lose?
- The fotocane : a boy gets a Polaroid camera as a gift, but soon discovers that the photos do not depict reality as it was at the time of the click, but .... a slightly different reality.
These are short plots. Regardless of the subject, however, the important thing is to understand that in this case, as in others, King SHORT nightmares, short stories derived from his impromptu flash. In two cases, in my view, came out of good stories (especially Langoliers Secret Window, Secret Garden : to read it completely); in the other 2 ( The officer of the library and The fotocane ) I sipped two mini crap.
If possible, read the first two taking the edition shown in the image. Overall, though, a good mini collection, given that the first two stories are even more length.
Overall Rating: 6.5
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