It was my younger brother who introduced to me Stephen King's novels. Apart from amusing, he said, they will eat you
up. Although I read the later ones not the earlier, I find each of them so
different from mediocre tales we often hear, read, or see. King's stories are unbelievable, yet plausible in a profound sense. My father once mocked about Stephen King's usual Horrors and Sci-Fis as totally crazy and unrealistic. After reading King's several books I didn't agree with him. Stephen King's ideas are incredible. He is so supernaturally creative that his fiction is more than fiction itself. He speaks the truth in another dimension, in another world we dare could not have imagined.
Different
Seasons is made for readers who evaluate King's stories as jocular and immature (well, this book goes to my father). The stories here are easy, slow-reading you won't be having a hard time wondering about its plausibility, different from his usual Macabre and Science Fiction. Composed of four stories in one book are not actually short stories but short novels, or novellas.
The first person narrator in
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshunk Redemption tells about his experience in Shawshunk Penetentiary: how his fellow inmate wins the game of life with nothing left in him but hope. In
Apt Pupil: how an American boy changes his whole perception in life by hanging out with an ex-Nazi.
The Body tells about childhood friendship and trust.
The Breathing Method tells how powerful a woman's womb can be in a supernatural way of thinking.
From America's spring to winter, Different Seasons is a book for the whole year. All of which had made into the silver screen except
The Breathing Method.
The Body, which is the best movie adaptation for Stephen King is popularized by the tiltle
Stand by Me.
My brother was right. This book will definitely land into our father's hands.