Lesson: what is more important, your addiction, or your families happiness? If your families safety isn't enough to stop you from smoking, nothing will. I really only had 3 stories I disliked: Number 1 was The Lawnmower Man I don't even want to talk about it. It was awful

Two young brothers cross fates with a gang of punks, and after one of the brothers died, the other escapes. Years later, the surviving brother got married and became an English teacher… More demonic possession - I am sensing a theme here! I am pretty sure that most King fans consider this short story one of his classics. It led to a series of what I am sure are very cheesy horror movies. I never saw them, but I have read this short story many times and I know that I love it!Es, quizás (siempre en mi opinión), el mejor compendio de relatos abarcados en un solo volumen. Aunque eso es mucho decir, dada la cantidad de lecturas de este tipo que ha publicado, y las cuales he disfrutado en su inmensa mayoría. Honestly it would be a sin not to like this. No spoilers along your way though, so all I can say is choose your decisions wisely. It has been proven how addictive smoking is. I've never smoked in my life, and after reading this, I don't think I ever will. The plot presented here is not unlikely to happen in real life, and that's the reason why this was so scary and entertaining at the same time. Stephen attended the grammar school in Durham and Lisbon Falls High School, graduating in 1966. From his sophomore year at the University of Maine at Orono, he wrote a weekly column for the school newspaper, THE MAINE CAMPUS. He was also active in student politics, serving as a member of the Student Senate. He came to support the anti-war movement on the Orono campus, arriving at his stance from a conservative view that the war in Vietnam was unconstitutional. He graduated in 1970, with a B.A. in English and qualified to teach on the high school level. A draft board examination immediately post-graduation found him 4-F on grounds of high blood pressure, limited vision, flat feet, and punctured eardrums. But what didn't I like about Night Shift? I didn't care for the Introduction written by author John D. MacDonald. He seems like one of those self-absorbed literary types who writes flippantly and with an air of false superiority. A snob, basically. That's what his introduction reads like, anyway, so I didn't care for it at all, and it felt really out of place in this humble first short story collection from Stephen King. A man goes to the psychiatrist to talk out his strange and deadly past experiences that caused the death of all his children…

L'ultimo cavaliere (1982) · La chiamata dei tre (1987) · Terre desolate (1991) · La sfera del buio (1997) · I lupi del Calla (2003) · La canzone di Susannah (2004) · La Torre Nera (2004) · La leggenda del vento (2012)Carrie - Lo sguardo di Satana (1976) · Carrie 2 - La furia (1999) · Carrie (film TV, 2002) · Lo sguardo di Satana - Carrie (2013)

The worst story for me was The Lawnmower man, which also had one of the worst movies I've ever seen named after it. Stephen King even sued to have his name removed from it, and really....it had *almost* nothing at all to do with the story at all; in fact it inspired the film Virtuosity, which was released a few years later....and the jump from the short story King wrote to the movie Virtuosity is a long one. I'm surprised Pierce Brosnan was in The Lawnmower Man...it was so ridiculous. King's story wasn't great, but it came nowhere near the absolute horribleness of the movie.

King is often hailed as the master of the short story. Prior to this collection I had only read Nightmares & Dreamscapes and The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and I did really enjoy them, but found it odd when people would comment things like "Oh it was good, but it was disappointing compared to earlier ones". Well, now I get it, guys! Now I get it. You can quite literally feel King's hunger for story-telling throughout the entirety of this collection and given these stories were written at the very start of his career, the material is all so fresh with absolutely amazing, outrageous ideas.