Everything's Eventual - Stephen King

I spotted the news on this on Stephen King’s website quite a while ago. His first collection of short stories in nearly ten years, not that this is an unusual length of time between such collections for him, but there you go. It does, however, keep up his routine of publishing a short story collection every decade since the 1970’s. I was excited, to say the least, as I’ve always enjoyed these collections, largely because they tend to be less long ...
...years. Take his last collection, for example, “Nightmares and Dreamscapes”. It was written at a time when, to my mind at least, he’d gone through quite a bad patch. Following on from, to my mind, his worst efforts at that point in “Dolores Claiborne” and “Gerald’s Game”, it was a welcome return to form, and the following novel “Insomnia” was one I’d also enjoyed. That collection remained in my mind as a bit of a turning point for me, and maybe enjoys ...

Soho_Black 18.09.2002 · Read full review
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...His latest collection in Everything's Eventual. First published in 2002, this collection features fourteen stories in all. They are not all horror; some are fantasy and some of merely fiction. But what I enjoyed a lot about reading this book were the author's little insights into how the story was written and other such notes. These are told in a few paragraphs at the beginning or the end of the story. My copy is the hardback edition (the paperback ...
...After a brief introduction, Everything's Eventual kicks off with a creepy, yet light-hearted 'Autopsy Room Four'. In his notes, Mr King states it is a homage to an episode of Alfred Hitchcock presents, in which a man is being wheeled into an autopsy room, presumed dead, but actually aware of what is going on. I remember the episode in question and King's differs from this with his use of syntax and exciting story telling. It is one of my favourites ...

Borg 25.06.2002 · Read full review
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..as it may well be, like Mr Kings career it seems. Unfortunatly his sales have dropped since Rose Madder, although he's still massively popular its still not the same. Personally I think its because the content of his writing has changed, since his massive accident he has turned away from the supernatural to the innate evil within humans. And I've been disappointed too, I quite frankly, couldnt get all the way through Dreamcatcher, couldnt quite ...
...Buick 8! But I saw 'Everything's Eventual' in Asda for a mere £3.84, jumped in the deep end and decided to peruse this book of short stories. I should add that all of these stories have been published elsewhere, so it could be quite likely that you have already read one or more. But is it an improvement? We start with 'Autopsy Room Four'. Can you already guess what it is about? Of course! King draws us in to the terrible world of waking up in an ...

Emma1973 30.03.2003 · Read full review
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'Everything's Eventual' (2002) by Stephen King **** This is the first collection of short stories by Stephen King I have read since 'Four Past Midnight' way back in 1990. I have always considered him a master of the form and, if anything, a better short story writer than he is a novelist - though I'm sure he wouldn't be too pleased to hear it. Previous collections include: 'Night Shift' (1978) ***** [astonishingly good], 'Different Seasons' (1982) ...
...(1990) ****½, 'Nightmares And Dreamscapes' (1993) & 'Hearts In Atlantis' (1999) - the last two of which I have yet to read. Compared to his early superlative collections I have to say 'Everything's Eventual' is something of a mixed bag. Never less than entertaining there are still more filler stories here than in my previous experience and rather too many moments when, having finished a tale, I couldn't help thinking "it was okay but King is capable ...

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...It's a nice story, but I don't really know what King tried to say. In conclusion, I must say that I liked reading Everything's Eventual. Some stories are good, others aren't, but the balance tips slightly in favour of Stephen King. Still, this is not his best work. ...

DutchECK 21.07.2004 · Read full review
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I finally finished this beast of a book (though not so beasty as some of his others) and once again the lure of Ciao was too great to overcome. I actually think that this review might be one of the most helpful I’ve ever written, because I think that this book needs some kind of review that you should read before you read the book. Bearing that in mind, on with the review... NB. There is actually a fantastic review already written of this book ...
...for. Bits and Pieces =========== I’m getting the not so interesting bits over and done with first... The book was actually bought for me as a present from my parents before returning to uni for this term. The RRP printed on the book is £6.99 but I know mum and dad got it from Asda for about £3.84, though its probably gone down in price by now; Asda are fairly good for books. I’d imagine its sold pretty much everywhere - I’ve seen it propped up ...

emmaclaire 01.06.2003 · Read full review
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...one sitting and for this Everything's Eventual was perfect. The book is a collection of short stories, although I thought that they weren't that short, not like in some of his short story collections where there are stories that are just a couple of pages long, for example, Skeleton Crew has a mixture of long and short stories. But in this collection all of the stories were quite long, but as I said suitable to be read in one sitting and I thought ...
...thrilling and gripping. Everything's Eventual - a youth is given a strange job, I liked this, it was believable and insightful I enjoyed it's style and was happy with the open ending more than the All That You Love one. L.T.'s Theory of Pets - I own up, I didn't get this one, I didn't like it, and I'm completely bewildered by the ending. Something about a marriage, a divorce and pets, if anyone wants to explain it to me please do! The Road Virus ...

kitty17 06.07.2004 · Read full review
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I'm an avid fan of Stephen King, and have been since I was a child (yes, rightly or wrongly my mother brought me up on a diet of cheese sandwiches, Christopher Lee & Peter Cushing films and Stephen King stories). My particular favourites have always been his short story collections. You see, the trouble with a typical Stephen King book is that, once you start reading it, it's difficult to stop. With the short stories, however, I found that I could ...
...night. I was therefore delighted when I saw the local bookshop's shelves laden with his latest offering of short stories. I immediately barged in, grabbed the nearest copy and slapped my money down at the till whilst dribbling over the back cover at the thought of the horrific literary delights that awaited. I'm usually a night owl, going to bed at two, maybe three in the morning. However, after buying my new book, I couldn't wait to get to bed, ...

renoc 08.06.2003 · Read full review
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First of all - I love Stephen King's short story collections. So this might be somewhat biased - but I think this is great! It really is an eclectic mix of stories which traverses the full spectrum of Kings arsenal! The stories in this book are easy to pick up and great fun to read. You have the usual horror/gruesome stories (which could happen to you) in the way of 'The Autopsy Room', the supernatural and macabre in the way of 'The Road Virus Heads ...
...Cafe, and even an small intro in the world of Dark Tower for all you non-DT fans (myself included - cant really get into it.) All in all, this is a great book - ideal for the quick 'pick up and read' when you have a spare half hour or so! Nothing to too challenging, all quite manageable 'lumps' of story. Theres a small bit of very descriptive writing in this book, which may make one or two of you squirm but nothing too bad (Autopsy room may be one ...

rhys_morgan1 31.08.2004 · Read full review
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