Full Dark, No Stars

Really great stories, I couldn’t put it down! I read it in 1 week.

Product is in a great condition and I can't wait to read itPS:thank you for the bookmark

Very good read, four seperate stories, and each one is different in the way that it is written and the story lines.I can't say too much about the stories or I will spoil it for you, but the last story is a shocker, and could well happen! It just goes to show that you don't know ANYONE at all. You really don't know who your lover really is.I was totally gripped throughout this whole thing, and enjoyed each and every paragraph. Stephen King does a super job here, one of his best!!!

Full dark, no stars - indeed. In other words: no brightness, no hope, no saving grace for the bunch of hapless characters whom King depicts in this new collection of novellas. Horror, crime and death invade the life of all too ordinary people and determine the fate of seemingly decent citizens. We meet farmers,, accountants, clerks, youths, housewives and other types from America's provincial regions whom we would never suspect of the kinky persversions, murderous intents and abysmal inclinations that the auther reveals in them. Respectable neighbors and petty bourgeois go berserk or are victimzied by uncontrollable passions, and the reader is stirred out of his complacency when confronting the demons that lurk in the human heart. In light of King's extraordinarily prolific output of novels, novelles, stories, and critical writings one may well wonder: Will he never run out of literary subjects? Are his imaginative resources in effect inexhaustible? Are there no limits to the way he succeeds in scaring his readers and devising ever new twists in plot construction? The plain answer is no, apparently not. And so, the King aficionados who revere their master will enjoy reading this book and being plunged once more into the darkness that is the other side of what, too easily, we take to be daylight normalcy.

As one of Stephen King's "constant readers" I was delighted to discover this collection of four extremely dark tales.The title is very well chosen - there is hardly any light shining in this "voyage into the heart of darkness", therefore you should be ready for the very tough stuff, even harder and darker than the rest of King's works. Here, evil is everywhere and it leaves a mark even on the good people - and sometimes swallows them whole.The first story, "1922", is the longest, the darkest, the hardest - and the best! Without providing too much spoilers let's just say that it describes a troubled family of farmers from Nebraska who, in 1922, find themselves in financial and personal troubles - and something must be done about it... It is a "crime and punishment" story, described in a very King'ish style, with just a very slight (but masterly applied) touch of Lovecraftian atmosphere in the second part. I was deeply shocked but also very very impressed by this story and I count it amongst the best things Stephen King's ever wrote!The second story, "Big Driver", is not as excellent as the first one, but it is still a very honest read. This one is also a "crime and punishment" story, but here the word "punishment" should be in fact understood as "revenge" or "vigilante justice". The main hero here is a woman who was victim of a terrible crime and who, at the peril of her life, wants retribution... A very dramatic story, well written, with a great lot of unexpected twists.The third story, "Fair extension", is a retelling of a Faustian deal with the Devil. It is very shocking, and it could seem to be completely immoral - but watch carefully for the one and only Biblical hint in the story and then judge by yourself, if the hero of "fair extension" really got such a sweat deal... A good, clever story, with a hidden level...The last one, "A good marriage", is maybe not a masterpiece, but again it is a good, dramatic and well written thing - and in my opinion it carries the prize for the most ironic title...))) A happy, middle-aged house wife has the silly idea to clean the garage when her husband travels for business - and her world crumbles all of a sudden... I will say no more, as you deserve to discover it by yourself...)))All in all it is a very, very good book, which I enjoyed greatly. Just, please, be warned again, that "1922" is an absolutely horrifying, heartbreaking story and this is a stuff that can feed your nightmares for months. Not to read if you feel already a little bit down or are experiencing a moment of financial or personal problems. Except for this little warning, I have only one more word to say - ENJOY!