Review: My Two Cents
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 3, 2011
This short story by Stephen King is something of a wash for me. Although I thought it had an interesting premise, the tale was just too long-winded for the subject matter. It's sort of a Night Shift caliber story and should have been more quickly paced, but King rambles, especially toward the beginning, as we follow an unremarkable boy while he pedals around town, drinks, plays darts by himself and then falls asleep. I found myself growing as bored as the child was in the story. Once the killings start, the story gets a little more interesting, but, alas, the ending is abrupt and seems quite implausible. It would have been better to keep the monster's origins more mysterious. In summary: okay story for the price, but not much new here, even for diehard King fans like myself.--Rod Redux, authot of Mort and The Oldest Living Vampire Tells All