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Four very good quality short stories. I never sat down to wath the Shawshank Redemption but I have to say if the movie is as good as the short story I can now understand all the hoopla about the movie.
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I decidedly like King's short stories, novellas and shorter novels better than I like his longer works. This is a good group of novellas.
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This books is four novellas: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body and The Breathing Method.
All four novellas are great in the way that the reader is intrigued the whole time trying to figure out how it is all going to end. The Breathing Method is weirdest of the four.
FROM THE BOOK:
RITA HAYWORTH AND THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge...The basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee, "The Shawshank Redemption".
APT PUPIL
Todd Bowden is one of the top students in his high school class and a typical American sixteen-year-old-- until be becomes obesessed with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. The inspiration for the film "Apt Pupil" from Pheonix Pictures.
THE BODY
Four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death and intimations of their own mortality. The film "Stand by Me" is based on this novella.
THE BREATHING METHOD
A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death.
All four novellas are great in the way that the reader is intrigued the whole time trying to figure out how it is all going to end. The Breathing Method is weirdest of the four.
FROM THE BOOK:
RITA HAYWORTH AND THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge...The basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee, "The Shawshank Redemption".
APT PUPIL
Todd Bowden is one of the top students in his high school class and a typical American sixteen-year-old-- until be becomes obesessed with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town. The inspiration for the film "Apt Pupil" from Pheonix Pictures.
THE BODY
Four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death and intimations of their own mortality. The film "Stand by Me" is based on this novella.
THE BREATHING METHOD
A disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death.
Good read.
Different Seasons is a collection of four stories. Included are the shorts that inspired the films "The Shawshank Redemption", "Apt Pupil" and "Stand By Me".
Wow, great read from cover to cover. Just read Christine G's review. That really sums it up. Oh, then go pick this up and read it for yourself. Wonderful book.
Wicked good book
Steven King is a wonderfully gifted writer. If you aren't interested in the gore and horror of "Carrie" or "Christine", you should give "Different Seasons" a chance. Also look for his books written as Richard Bachman. You won't be disappointed!
Better than I thought it would be. Classic S. King.
Four Novellas in this paperback by Stephen King: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body and The Breathing Method. This one is a good read.
King at his best
Four novellas by Stephen King. I loved it!
This paperback has a library sticker on it because I bought it at a library sale. It is a collection of four stories by Stephen King. Very good!
4 tales of horor from the master of horror stephen king.
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope and devises a wily scheme to escape from prison. The second concerns a boy who discards his innocence by enticing an old man to travel with him into a reawakening of long-buried evil. In the third story, a writer looks back on the trek he took with three friends on the brink of adolescence to find another boy\'s corpse. The trip becomes a character-rich rite of passage from youth to maturity.