I enjoyed this book so much I have re-read it about a thousand times. Stephen King is my favorite author and I have almost all his books and this one is one of my top favorites! Would definitly recommend this book.

DIFFERENT SEASONS by Stephen King

I walked into this book thinking, wrongly, that it was all horror. Maybe that made the stories a little less entertaining for me, I'm not sure. What I liked about DIFFERENT SEASONS were mainly the characters and the writing style. All the characters seemed to have a life of their own; they were written wonderfully. The attention to detail in each novella made the settings come alive and made it that much more easy for me to sink myself into them. I think I enjoyed how each was written more than what was being written, with the exception of my favorite one. I thought RITA HAYWORTH AND SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION was by far the best of the 4 novellas; the story, characters, and how it was all put together flowed perfectly one scene to the next. For the other novellas I felt myself wishing that things went slightly different, but they were still enjoyable, just not my favorites. These stories weren't quite like anything I usually read so I wasn't exactly bouncing off the walls in excitement, but for those who love that genre, I'm sure they'd be more appreciated. To me, DIFFERENT SEASONS was a new experience, and the novellas were certainly interesting and unique to read.

Overall Opinion: B

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I have never read anything by Stephen King before, maybe because there was always so much hype about his books that I just avoided them, but now I can see why. All of the stories were well written but I had to push myself through the book. I really didn't enjoy the stories as much as I thought I would but I will say that his books inspire great movies, so I guess that's something to his credit.

This book was great, absolutely one of his best. The stories were each magnificent, usually you only like a couple storys in a novella book but I found I loved all of them!