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Loved

I feel like it's probably actually going to be closer to like a four and a half out of five stars, which does feel pretty on point, you know, for me because all the other books that I compared this to, like A Good Person or Big Swiss, like those are all books that I gave like four and a half stars.

Loved

I feel like it's probably actually going to be closer to like a four and a half out of five stars, which does feel pretty on point, you know, for me because all the other books that I compared this to, like A Good Person or Big Swiss, like those are all books that I gave like four and a half stars.

Mixed

You know, I actually wasn't the biggest fan of Carrie by Stephen King when I first read it a few years ago now because I thought it was kind of boring and I didn't really care about the religious themes, but I actually do appreciate the story more after hearing, you know, this woman talking about it and kind of like seeing the intention that Stephen King put behind that story and just kind of like hearing about like the early days of that manuscript and like how it came to be.

Loved

I feel like it's very interesting to hear about writers and their process. And that was something I loved about on writing by Stephen King, you know, because he does have a book that's talking about his writing

Loved

There were also some parts of this book that kind of reminded me of The Passengers by John Mars, which is like one of my favorite books of all time. I mean, that one is definitely more of like a fast-paced thriller.

Mixed

I've always heard that Stephen King doesn't like The Shining movie adaptation and so she kind of like deep dives into that at the start of that chapter and it was really cool to hear more of the details about why Stephen King doesn't like The Shining adaptation because I always personally thought that The Shining movie was actually better than the book.