FAIRY TALE Hardcover – September 6, 2022

I have been reading my whole life. I’m 50. This book! Omg this book! This is THE best book I have ever read and WOW I need a movie or a whole trilogy for this. LOVED IT and my son feels the same. I gave him my copy and need to buy another one.

Got this as a gift for someone who loves stephan king. They really enjoyed the book.

Perfect condition.

This book had me interested from the beginning! I am not necessarily a Stephen King fan, but I am a fan of this book. I enjoyed the references to fairy tales, as I think most people would if they had them read to them as a child or have actually read them themselves. His colorful descriptions and how he related them to the plot were incredible. I definitely recommend this book!

Once upon a time, a horror writer emerged named Stephen King. As he gained in popularity, he and his publisher decided his audience wanted really long books. And they could charge more money for these really long books. So King continued writing really long books.Fairy Tale is over 600 pages, because the publishers believe King's audience still wants to read books that are thicker than a set of encyclopedias. The problem here is this story drags on and on because King needed to fill 600 pages, not because the story demanded it.At the beginning of the book, I kept wondering when the story was going to start. It started a third of the way in. Before that, I was treated to reading all about how the protagonist nursed a sick old man, in what seemed like real-time.The same thing at the end. It just dragged on. Far be it from me to suggest what Stephen King should have done, but this story should have been told in 350 pages. Let's say 400 pages to be charitable.Another problem with this story was the narrator, who is a 17-year-old high school student going on 35. He knows and talks about things no high school student of today would ever know, especially a jock. King tries to explain this by saying the narrator wrote the story years after I'm the events had occurred, but I'm talking about the things he talks about in the story, not as the narrator. And King doesn't quite pull off writing in the voice of someone from Chicago, using New England terms like "down cellar."Still, if you don't mind the interminably long length and slow pace of the novel, there's a decent story here. If it were any other author, an editor would have cut the book down. But it's Stephen King, and he can do whatever he wants.

Love all the references to simple fairy tales, well written. Easy read didn't want to put it down.

I love when King writes books like this. I've read it and listened to it twice. It made me start back writing some fiction myself. My fiction is more of the slasher horror stuff. King is amazing here, and at his best. Can't wait to see the movie.

I've never been the biggest fan of Stephen King. There are a few books, like the stand, that I loved, but for the most part I'm just not a fan of his style.I hear that King has a tendency to just write and write and write and write and then his editor cuts out 60% of what he wrote and what remains is a pretty good book. Fairy Tale is a story about a young boy who travels to a fantasy world on a quest to save his dog Rader, who does not have long to live. Fully 1/3 of the book takes place before they make it to the other world. On the one hand I thought it was mostly good character development and enjoyed reading it, on the other hand there were many portions of the fantasy world that seemed very rushed and/or underdeveloped.King clearly feels that he has a moral responsibility to utilize his large reach/influence to comment on contemporary political issues and does so in this book fairly often. He just does it by awkwardly hamfisting in metaphor's and similes that don't really fit. Every other chapter of the book will contain a sentence like "Charlie found this extremely strange, almost as strange as stupid white American bigots who flash the ok hand symbol in the utterly wrong belief that white people are superior." And you know... I agree with your politics Stephen King, but maybe just include an introduction at the start of the book outlining what you want to say about it because just shoving in comparisons like that consistently breaks immersion.Overall I quite liked the book. I think the portion of the book before they travel to the other world should have been shorter and the portion that takes place in the other world should have been longer.