Category: Books
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The old woman Stella Flanders met real ghosts on the Reach.
This short story of 8750 words has so many names in it. I have counted 44 names. It was hard to keep track who was who. Despite that slight difficulty, story about this old woman and her fellow islanders is very beautiful. As soon as the story revealed the meaning of ‘the Reach’ I had…
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The origin and the potential of Carrie White’s paranormal powers
Carrie White was an extremely powerful mutant who possessed a wide range of paranormal powers. In any other story she could have been a superhero, but not in this story. Constant abusing and bullying prevented Carrie from becoming a superhero, instead it made her a supervillain.
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Why did time traveling Jake Epping prevent the JFK Assassination?
The novel 11/22/63 by Stephen King is about a time traveler who went back to 1958 to work up his way to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination in 1963. But why did he do that? What was his motive?
