I started You Like it Darker this evening. The latest collection of stories from Stephen King.
I always begin a book very slowly and indeed did so tonight reading just 25 pages in three quarters of an hour as i savour each word and lose myself in the prose. I speed up considerably as i get into books.
Those 25 pages consisted of the first chapter of Two Talented Bastids. The opening sixty page novella of the piece. it's basically scene setting so far and getting into the mind of the titular characters. As usual King's scene setting is of meticulous quality.
Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream is the second novella that amounts to 150 pages - almost the length of King's first book Carrie.
I shall be leaving the 85 page Rattlesnakes until after i have read Cujo, which i picked up earlier this year, as it's a sequel to that story.
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