A review by tanja_alina_berg
Different Seasons by Stephen King

4.0

I am racking my brains trying to figure out when I read this, unsuccesfully. I know for a fact that I had not read it before I saw "Apt Pupil" and I am quite sure I saw the movie while I lived in Germany (2001-2005). But it could have been earlier, in which case I'd be at least five years off. Actually, since "Apt Pupil" for some unknown reason (considering the topic) was a movie I really wanted to see, it is quite likely I saw it in 2000 and that would have enticed me to pick the book up. I read so much in 2000, I even got up an hour earlier to read. I know that I have read "Different Seasons", because I remember the feeling when I read the novella "the Body", that it was different from the movie based on it, "Stand by me". The novella managed to be more ominous. When I first saw the movie, I was very young, certainly no older than 13 years of age, and everything felt strange and threatening. It is odd that I as an adult would find the novella scarier, but I did. I remember that. Which is about all, sadly. I should put this on my re-read list. I am sure I owned a paperback copy of this book at some point, but that would have been at least three moves ago, so it's long gone.