Skeleton Crew

Skeleton Crew

1980 • 612 pages

Ratings88

Average rating3.7

15

Pretty big disapointment for a second King's short stories collection. Third of it felt like writer's exercises, third of it was boring and the rest couldn't make up for more than three stars.

The first really good short story is The Jaunt about a crazy scientist and his invention.
I don't like the Mist and rest of stories before Jaunt felt like lazy and/or too long writing.

Best story is definitely Survivor Type about an insane castaway.

Other stories that stood out were The Wedding Gig and The Raft. And that's it. Gramma and The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet had great writing but some aspects of the story and their endings just didn't make them appeasing enough.

If you want early King's short stories you're better off with Night Shift.

January 11, 2016