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First off, The Mist and 1408 can't even come close to Everything's Eventual, but I've already made it clear that I'm not a huge fan of those two.

Next, you really should make your avatar look like Mr. Sharpton. Suit and tie, the works. That's have a better effect.

Finally, I enjoyed this story as well. I like the concept of start and end the week broke. I liked the suicide inducing letters. I liked Dinky's Day Board. It was a really cool idea for s story, and nicely executed.

The Mist seemed overlong and, frankly, boring. I guess prehistoric monsters randomly appearing in a mysterious mist don't creep me out...at all. It's not just that it isn't realistic, because I can go for the sci-fi and fantasy quite a bit. It just seems cheap. This isn't a shot at King (I wouldn't think of it) but I do admit that he has some works that I did not enjoy. The whole thing was like "Zomg crazy monsters outside. Ok, we're gonna sit around for a while being boring, then go out and try to get away from this.... Now that we're in a potentially interesting situation, here's the ending you were hoping would come 50 pages ago. Hope you enjoyed..."

1408 I have fewer negative things to say about. I don't dislike it, I just found it somewhat unremarkable. The ending where he set himself on fire to get out was cool. Parts of it were cool. but I saw it as being on a level with most of King's other stories. No greater, no worse. And my opinion is that people are crazy about both of them because of the movie hype. 1408 I did see, after reading it, and I thought it was a pretty good one, that they did a good job with it, but my opinion still stands about the story.

To give you an idea, some stories I really did like were Quitters Inc., Survivor Type, Little Sisters of Eluria, Autopsy Room Four, Battleground, Children of the Corn, The Mangler, Word processor of the Gods, Ballad of the Flexible Bullet, and You Know They Got a Hell of a Band.

There are more but the list would get too long and those are the ones that really stood out for me. My favorite collection is Night Shift, certainly.


As for the actual topic here, and Mr Sharpton....I didn't have a strong reaction to him killing Sharpton. I see how it worked. The guy made him into something bad without him really realizing it until the end, and he felt he was saving other people like him from Sharpton, I think.

Meh, killing is easier said than done, but I won't digress further into that.

Children of the Corn rates high on the creepiness factor. I've seen only a small bit of the movie and it didn't look as ominous as the story.

Cell was good except for the ending, which wasn't very satisfying.

And King is usually straight-forward when it comes to other-dimensional stuff. He tends to just come right out and say he's talking about stuff from other worlds. Even in From a Buick 8 he does that, but I wasn't crazy about that one, either.

I didn't have much of a problem with the movie. They did what they had to to put in enough content for a feature-length film and I didn't feel they really left anything out. It is one of the three King movies I've seen. The other two are Carrie and The Secret Window, which I saw before I was a King Fan, but still thought was decent.

I agree on the dream issue. That was dumb and cliche. There was never a question of whether it was real or not and it seemed like an insult to suggest it, let alone try to trick you into believing it. Bastards...

As for Autopsy Room four. I loved it. The detail made me sick. I already don't like needled but having a six inch metal spike driven into your chest cavity... *shiver*... That's a no-no. I find it entertaining that such a down to earth, uncensored happening such as an erection would give away his dead persona.