Everything’s Eventual (by Stephen King) Review

Everything´s Eventual, first published in GB in 2002 by Hodden and Stoughton, is a fiction book written by the international bestseller Stephen King, another of more than forty books. His most recent are Dreamer Catcher, On Writing, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who I Loved. Our book includes one O. Henry Prize, two other awards and Riding the Bullet, an e-book that attracted over half a million on-line readers and became the most famous short story of the decade.

We have 14 short dark tales with many different, but also dark characters. These tales are intensive because of the plot itself, they are fiction but sometimes King is not so far away from reality even it sounds crazy.

The characters are mysterious, pensative and strong people, without fear; not afraid to investigate or to go to the “limit”. Most of the characters leave their imagination free and they fly with it.

The book is easy and impulsive reading. If you want,….if you are for it…it makes you feel like one of the characters; it makes you part of the story, sometimes it is even difficult to distinguish between fiction and reality.

Whenever you are scared, you know it is going to finish a few pages later, that is what makes such intense reading.

This is my first and my last King book, trying be neutral in the way it is, the kind of story is not revelant. They are too close to death, too close to the big question: ” and then, what?” Maybe these days the news is full of crimes, wars, attacks, there is no need for this kind of “literature”. Whenever so many people read this kind of book you can tell it is literature, but with a big business behind. Anyway, to these who love scary / fiction books, enjoy it!

by Juanjo Hernández

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