I listened to this collection of short stories because I love the Holly Gibney books, and one of these stories features her (it’s a sequel to The Outsider, and since I read it after Holly, I’ve got my chronology a bit off!).
I actually thought all the stories were very strong and affecting and thought provoking. One of them ‘The Life of Chuck’ describes the end of the world – the internet failing, power outages, weather catastrophes, wars etc and I found it very uncomfortable reading since many of those things are happening right now! (the resolution of the story was a twist that I hadn’t seen and an interesting thought experiment.)
There’s also a writer making a Faustian deal with a rat(!) An old man communicating from beyond the grave via mobile phone. Stephen King is such an amazing writer who moves with the times embracing the modern zeitgeist even though he’s a man in his late seventies!
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