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Loading... Apt Pupil (edition 1999)by Stephen King
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Revisited this story in audiobook form after many, many years. It was rather a different experience, more frightening, than the first time I read it in my late teens. Maybe the teenager me was more comfortable with the idea of the boy's monstrous transformation. Or it may simply be that it feels more real, more possible, to me now than it did 30 years ago. There are so many monstors hiding behind wholesome, smiling masks. Frank Mueller narrates it perfectly, as always. ( ) Great book of novellas. The first story, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, was just as good as the movie. I was surprised just how faithful the movie was to the story. Apt Pupil was a creepy a disturbing story, as was the movie, which feels like it could happen in real life. The Body, which Stand by Me was based on, was also a great read. Hard to say if the book or movie was better in this case since I really enjoyed both equally. The last story, The Breathing Method, doesn't have any movie adaptations I am aware of and was the weak link in this collection. I was not a bad story per se but didn't hook me nearly as much as the other three did. I definitely recommend this book. no reviews | add a review
Belongs to SeriesIs contained inDifferent Seasons / Salem's Lot / The Gunslinger by Stephen King (indirect) Stephen King: Acclaimed Stories from the World's Bestselling Author, Stephen King : Different Seasons/Skeleton Crew/Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King (indirect) Skeleton Crew / Different Seasons by Stephen King (indirect) Has the adaptationAwards
"Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's darl past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power--and the seductive lure of evil."--Publisher's description. No library descriptions found.
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