Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Night Shift by Stephen King

5 reviews

perth_is's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

in the first half it was a little boring but after the second half I really liked all the stories. i thought they were all so interesting. my favourites would be Grey Matter, Strawberry Spring, Quitters Inc. and I Know What You Need. but all stories had really good plots!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Gore, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sappypatheticm's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Death, Gore, Homophobia, Suicide, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

slimepuppy's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

4.0

Nice collection of short stories - some great and some uh... not so much! Now for a short summary:

"Jerusalem's Lot" - god I love 'Salem's Lot

"Graveyard Shift"- this main character is batshit CRAZY 
  
"Night Surf" - meh

"I Am the Doorway"- this is gay body horror I won't hear otherwise
  
"The Mangler" - so cooky I kinda of love it
  
"The Boogeyman" - GREAT one
 
"Gray Matter" - I'm not scared of jello, sorry :/
 
"Battleground" - silly fun!

"Trucks" - transformers for people who hate cars. fun.
 
"Sometimes They Come Back" - it's  good! the ending is disheartening

"Strawberry Spring" - another GREAT one 
 
"The Ledge" - Creepshow did it better and they had Leslie Nielsen

"The Lawnmower Man" - Stephen King would like for you to know that he hates fat people. 4/10 for the Greek references.
 
"Quitters, Inc." - I chuckled.
 
"I Know What You Need" - so disturbing oh my god read this one!!!

"Children of the Corn" - I can't believe they made 11 movies out of this. it's a great story, but 11 movies?

"The Last Rung on the Ladder" - so tragic and so so sad 

"The Man Who Loved Flowers" - cheap. could see that coming from a mile away
 
"One for the Road" - I! LOVE! 'SALEM'S LOT!! first story was better though.
 
"The Woman in the Room" - I teared up a little at the end there lol

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Death, Gore, Racial slurs, Rape, Suicide, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, and Alcohol

Moderate: Fatphobia

zone_a3's review

dark sad tense fast-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Cancer, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Murder, and Alcohol

flamesocks's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexism, Suicide, Stalking, and Alcohol