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Apt Pupil : A Novella in Different Seasons by Stephen King
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Apt Pupil : A Novella in Different Seasons

by Stephen King

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Not the meeting of good an evil so much as the union of potential evil with the completely unholy. Resident evil? teenage curiousity? All American boy hooks up with Concentration Camp Slaughter Master and the hybrid horror unleashed. Is that the scent of rotting tomatoes? Kind of like the Brady Bunch meets THEY SAVED HITLER'S BRAIN. The first thing I have read by steven king.
  jbeckhamlat | Dec 30, 2008 |
Ratzi self-manipulation.

A high school boy discovers the secret of an old man living nearby - and it is a big one. Deciding to use this knowledge for his own ends, he discovers that an old man like this is a harder target than he thought, and more than a match for a somewhat innocent young man.

This relationship does not have a good effect on the young man's state of mind.

http://notfreesf.blogspot.com/2008/07... ( )
  bluetyson | Jul 6, 2008 |
This is a double masterpiece: Frank Mueller's voice talent only helps to highlight this psychological thriller from the mind of Stephen King. The movie does not do this story justice. While a lot of people wrongfully equate King's writing with the Slice 'n' Dice Horror genre, this in an intense thriller based on a young man befriending a hiding Nzi war criminal and the your man becoming ensnared in his own lies. ( )
  PghDragonMan | Dec 10, 2007 |
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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0451197127, Mass Market Paperback)

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.

This acclaimed collection of four novellas by Stephen King also includes "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (basis for the Academy Award nominated film The Shawshank Redemption), "The Body" (inspiration for the motion picture Stand By Me), and "The Breathing Method."

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