I finished reading it, it's a collective of 20 of Stephen Kings short stories. Here's my five favourite, though they're all great. Mostly horror/suspense. No order:
1. Children of the Corn
A couple on a road trip drive into a little (seemingly deserted) town. Usually anything with children creeps me out. I don't know how to type anything without giving it away. Would be a good movie in the right hands. Apparently it has been in the wrong hands quite often.
2. Lawnmower Man, The
A suburbanite needs someone to cut his overgrown grass. He eventually hires someone, but things don't turn out as he expected. Oh my god, it's wonderful. Plenty of "Say what?" moments. If you saw the movie The Lawnmower Man, remember it barely (or not at all apparently) resembles this story. It's another example of how comedy and horror can work out so well.
3. Quitters Inc.
A man decides that he'll try to quit smoking. He ends up going to an organization with some strange methods. I don't smoke, so I guess I'm one of those Smug Bastards. I kind of wish this would happen with some crackheads I know, but you know some crackheads (not saying all). Some of them will do anything, or let anything be done to their family.
4. I Know What You Need
Girl meets boy. Boy seems to know everything the girl needs. Girls roomate is suspicious. If it seems too good to be true, it probably is. I think this was first published in Cosmopolitan, which is cool. I'm pretty sure they still do that, or publish snippets from novels. I've only read one issue of Cosmo, and it had a snippet from an erotic novel. If they had more short stories like this, I would definately want to read it more. People can easily get romance novels, my mom has a hundred in the basement, and a bunch up here too.
5. The Man Who Loved Flowers
New York, 1963. A lovestruck man decides to buy his girlfriends flowers on a lovely day in spring. At first I thought this would be about JFK's assassination (I'm not sure what the date was). It certainly was not. Can't say much more without giving something away.
It seems I can no longer count, because I wrote down six titles. So here is another:
6. Last Rung on the Ladder
A lawyer gets a sad letter from his sister, and it brings back memories from their childhood. One of the two stories in the book that doesn't have anything supernatural or whatever in it. Though it's one of the last stories, so I kept thinking "What's going to jump out an attack the lawyer?"
Currently listening to: Beatles, The - She's Leaving Home
Currently reading: "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Currently feeling: tired