8/30/2023 0 Comments Later by stephen king reviews![]() ![]() ![]() Some lowlights: The way the main character (a teenager growing up in modern day) speaks like an old man with old-timey clichés the connection to a certain other book of King’s (it was an eye-roll moment for me).Īnd, finally, why am I posed like that in the photo above? I have no idea. The ever prolific King moves from his trademark horror into the realm of the hard-boiled noir thriller. Another worthy page-turner from a protean master. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Murder most foul and mayhem most entertaining. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. ![]() Some highlights: It’s a quick read the horror visuals are incredibly visceral and freaky as f*ck the creep factor is turned up to 11 that AMAZING vintage cover. Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine, in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. (Until the very last, unnecessary few chapters, of course, but that’s par for the course with any of King’s books let’s be real.) So, King’s latest novel, Later, was a no-brainer read for me….until I was nervously looking around my room at 2 AM expecting to see a particularly gross ghost staring at me.Īlthough this basically felt like a redux of The Sixth Sense - young boy in a big city can see dead people, which gets him mixed up in some trouble with a detective - I really enjoyed it. Here are a few important things to know about me: 1.) I love horror, 2.) I love Stephen King, and 3.) I love reading late at night. ![]()
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