Thinner - Stephen King

I've never heard of such a stupid plot for a book but something about the writing on the back of Thinner made me want to read it, I'm not mad keen on Stephen King because his books aren't as scary or thrilling as HE thinks they are but I thought I'd try this one because it's quite a short book and I thought if I got bored I wouldn't have to wait long until I finished the book. Billy is a professional man who has a wife he loves and a daughter they both adore. One day he runs over and kills an old gypsy woman and her husband puts a curse on him, just by touching his face and whispering "Thinner" the gypsy turns Billy's life upside down. Billy is a ...  Read the complete review

I'll be the first to admit that of the Stephen King books I've read, I've been left slightly underwhelmed. But when my local library was refurbished, leaving the fiction shelves in a bizarre, hard-to-follow order, I somehow ended up at the horror shelves (which I'm not sure even existed pre-refurb) and decided to give him another try. This book was written under the name Richard Bachman. Thinner jumped out at me because, besides the fact it was easily the most colourful in the row with its bright orange spine, it wasn't ridiculously long. I tend to lose interest with books over about 400-500 pages, and the majority of his work looked pretty lengthy. I was ...  Read the complete review

Over the years I had gone through phases of being a big Steven King fan and reading all I can get my hands on, to the opposite end of the spectrum where I can go a couple of years without picking up one of his offerings. I wasn't actually aware when I picked this book up that it was a Steven King as it is written under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman, and author I knew literally nothing about. On closer inspection it became apparent that for a number of years King wrote under this alias - it is however quite clear to see how people could have joined the dots as the general writing style and morbid content is very similar. This book is based around William ...  Read the complete review

It took me a little over a week to finish this book, which is darn good for me, it's a little different than most of his other books, some people will probably like that, since sometimes it can take about 300 pages for the action to start happening. Throughout the course of this book, we are faced with characters dealing with moral dilemas(nice cars those dilemas!). The book's main character, Billy Halleck, accidentally kills an old Gypsy woman in the road while his wife is performing a certain sexual act on him. Then the woman's father curses him, he starts to lose loads of weight until he's nearly a human skeleton, but no one believes that ...  Read the complete review

Another Stephen King book which is a bit on the thin side, but unlike “The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon” it has a story line more like what you would expect of Stephen King. It’s basically about a very lawyer called Billy Halleck who was confident that the area in which he lived in would soon be free of those pesky Gypsies as the patrol guys were on to them the day they arrived. He never thought for one minute, whist in his car along with his wife he would be hitting one and fatally injuring them with his car, then again he would never have thought his wife, who was quite prude, would endure a sexual act upon him whilst he was driving. ...  Read the complete review