Not much in the way of horror, all are obviously incredibly short compared to traditional King novels, but all 4 stories are fantastic. But, because I had no knowledge of this story it was the one I enjoyed reading the most simply for the fact I didn’t have to compete with images I had already acquired from film. Truthfully the reviews have it right and it being the only story not to get the movie treatment comes as no surprise. It being a King story that I knew nothing of and most reviews list it as the weak link in this collection so I had to know for myself. The Breathing Method was what made me finally break down and read this book. But of course the stories are fantastic, even though the I prefer the The Shawshank Redemption movie to the book and the Body was similar enough that I enjoyed both equally. Sometimes that’s good but when they are two movies you have seen a dozen times each it’s hard to get the pictures in your mind to separate from the films. The Body and Rita Heyworth & The Shawshank Redemption were much more similar to their movie counter parts. Thankfully the story in here is more fleshed out and a bit darker in tone which added to my enjoyment. I never cared for the movie Apt Pupil and remember very little of it. If you have seen any of the 3 movies from this book, The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil or Stand By Me, then you already know what to expect. “The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,” hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons. This novella became the movie Stand By Me.įinally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.” In “The Body,” four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. Next is “Apt Pupil,” the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.

This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,” in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge-the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Includes the stories “The Body” and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”-set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, MaineĪ “hypnotic” ( The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas-including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption-from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.

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