"The one Stephen King book that I would never read again. This is the anti-Misery! What boring tripe, written by King in a two-week period. Delores Claiborne, its twin, is far superior."
"Linked with the Bachman-stupid The Regulators, here we have a period of glut from SK that should have reamined unpublished. A long, dragging novel that could have been halved with good editing."
"Tripe! Whatever King was going for here should have remained hidden in the Dead Novel Trunk. This is really crap. Straight out. Not even fun crap! Tak!"
"Another of King's feminist books. We look at abuse and look again and again. This is the typified villanous husband beating the wife book. Yawn. King gets weird here and it isn't good at all."
"This should be retitled: CURE FOR INSOMNIA. What a long, dragging book about abused women and old people and boy did I not need to read this, but I did. Is there a point to this one? King babbles!"
"Not necessarily a bad book, more of a short story that got way too out of hand. Pointless and cute and trying to be scary where there is no fear whatsoever. A yawner extroidinaire."
"Compared to Different Seasons (and that is very difficult) these four novellas suck. There are some interesting ideas going on here, its just that they drag. Get to the point, Steve!"