You Like It Darker - Stephen King - Book Review 🐊

A little late on posting my review but here it is! You Like It Darker By: Stephen King! Let me know your thoughts of the book in the comments!

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[glendyc]

I enjoy reading short stories from time to time but I prefer a longer novel. My favorite SK short story collection so far is Night Shift. I haven't read You Like It Darker yet but I really want to read Rattlesnakes and most of the stories sound interesting. There's still many SK books I need to read but it's hard to decide which one to pick next lol. Congrats again on 1K subscribers, a Q&A would be great.

[musicroom]

I think you make many valid points. Short stories are not for everyone. I have read all of King's previous short story collections and (in my opinion) all contain a few good, a few mediocre & a few weak entries. Of course, that definitely depends on the taste of the reader. I, personally, like his longer works much better. I believe that in both long & short works, my favorite thing he does is write a realistic, believable setting. That is what draws me in...beyond that, the plot can work for me or not, but it is rare that I don't find myself drawn into the setting/world he creates to the degree that it doesn't feel like fiction. Thanks as always for sharing your thoughts!

[Monsterblood]

Also congrats on the 1k subs dawg! Welcome to the club 😎

[amanda_c.]

I just finished a Pike book that was a drag, took me a week to get through a 200 page book lol.
Secret Window, Secret Garden (Four Past Midnight) and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Different Seasons) are a couple of my favorite short stories by King.
Congrats on 1K!! 🎉

[MSMDragon]

Great video! I really need to start reading more King. I’ve only read The Stand. I liked it but that was a few years ago.

[ChristopherSniadecki]

Congratulations on 1000! 🎉Great video!

[spookylittlebooknerd]

Congratulations on 1, 000 subscribers! I think a Q&A would be fun. Love the buttons and bookmarks! What a bummer that this book was a drag! I was guessing it was because they were short stories before you said that. I struggle with short stories too. I do really love that cover though. I do better with his novels that are normal length that aren’t a thousand pages but are like 300-500 pages but aren’t short stories either.

[kirazinn]

I like the idea of a Q & A. You can do Fear Street, Point Horror, Middle Grade books for the giveaway.

[alyssanicholson]

Congrats on 1k it’s absolutely amazing

[jimlay]

Idea for some future vlogs: Books that share certain horror themes or locations, etc. Monsterblood did a cool one about horror sub genres. You could do one about books that take place at carnivals/circuses, or revenge beyond the grave type novels, or (my all time fav) monster themed novels

[Joshuas_ReadingCorner]

I’m sorry this book was a drag, don’t think I’ll pick this one up. I’m glad you liked rattlesnakes though! Congrats on 1k subs, I love your content! Any video you want to do I’ll always watch.

[ZoeyDeLeonVA]

Night Shift might be a good palette cleanser after this, I think that's his best short fiction collections, for me, it starts with a back to back 5 star stories and I only find just one bad story in that one.

I can't wait to read this one, I've actually read The Turbulence Expert before in a seperate collection called Flight or Fright and that collection as a whole was terrible. can't wait to reread that in here. lol

[Kritz_Reads]

I'm also not a short story lover. I'm sorry this didn't work out for you. I know you were really looking forward to it. I haven't read or seen Cujo - I'd love to get to that this summer!

[edlewisnoctreviews]

Congrats, again on the 1k subscribers, you deserve them and more! Would love to see a bookshelf tour.
I'll be curious about that Rattlesnakes video.

[ReadingRetail]

im finishing up SK Needful things.. its a long one but its sooo worth it!

[Monsterblood]

Great review man! I'm right there with you - this book is a drag, and I'm only the first few stories in.
King USED to be really good at short stories - when they were actually short instead of 50-100 page novellas, lol. Night Shift is my all time favorite King book, I've read it about 3 or 4 times now lol.

There are also some pretty good stories in Skeleton Crew, but in Nightmares and Dreamscapes the short storytelling quality starts to decline IMO, and I even DNFd that one, and honestly, might DNF You Like it Darker

[krypticcoil]

Cool video, Zack! You sound like you weren’t too thrilled with this one. However I can’t help but notice that you have 3/5 stars as the lowest rating for some of these stories. To me, a 3 star rating means that it was worth a read or worth a watch. Is that how you feel about a 3 star rating as well?

[ret]

The stories were very hit and miss for me. I thought Rattlesnakes and The Answer Man were very good. But some of the other stories were very forgettable. I really recommend Night Shift and Skeleton Crew, those 2 collections have some of his best stories, IMO.

[johnkaufman]

You need to read Night Shift and Different Seasons.

[libbygreen]

What are you doing with Nancy free books you must collect anything maybe I should get mine out of the attic