Thinner - Stephen King Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

One of his Richard Bachman Books. In his introduction he writes a note on why he published a few books under the name of Bachman, he concludes that he doesn't really have a good answer so it was lucky he didn't kill anyone! Something to remember, Richard Bachman was an angry young man, and while his writing style is similar they are ...  Read the complete review

A lawyer called Billy Haleck, whom is plaugued by the love of food runs over an old gypsy in his car, and uses his influencial friends to avoid the blame. He walks away from court a free man, but cursed by a scorned gypsy. As the book progresses, the man becomes delighted at losing weight,but as time goes on, and with his normal eating habits, he ...  Read the complete review

If you're new to Stephen King this is definately the place to start. 'Thinner' is definately, well, thinner, than most of King's work which tends to take the form of 700 page plus epics ('Insomnia', 'Desperation'), and is also surprisingly easy to read. A considerably overweight Billy Halleck is beginning ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

Slim Faster, the miracle diet! Stephen King approaches something he normally leaves well alone in this book, although he does it in his normal style. Everybody knows that along with the gypsies come myth and magic, but not everybody believes in it. Billy Halleck, the main character was in a not unwelcome compromising ...  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 ...  Read the complete review