Apt Pupil
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Stephen King
#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless coming-of-age novella, Apt Pupil—published in his 1982 story collection Different Seasons and made into a 1998 Tristar movie starring Ian McKellan and Brad Renfro—now available for the first time as a standalone publication.If you don’t believe in the existence of evil, you have a lot to learn. Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher, Mr. Dussander, and to learn all about Dussander’s dark and deadly past…a decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn’t want to turn his teacher in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to face his fears and learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil. A classic story from Stephen King, Apt Pupil reveals layers upon layers of deception—and horror—as finally there is only one left standing.
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Author
Stephen King
Pages
224
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2018-12-04
ISBN
1982115459 9781982115456
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"This is a highly engaging novella by #StephenKing. If you don’t do well with something disturbing then it’s probably not for you. If you are ok with that, then you are likely to find this to be a real page turner"
Ian Morris
"DNF at 38%<br/>I literally never DNF books but I just can’t with this. The amount of animal abuse and antisemitism is just way too much for me. Mentally I cannot continue. I don’t care how it ends or if there is even a point."
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Cailin Zoltak
"A twisted book that is sinister throughout "
Zach Gallegos
"Great characters and great plot. Very disturbing and nothing good ever happens, yet this book still owns part of my soul bc it's a very good read if you're into dark and twisted books."
Alessandra BryanJohnson
"January read..."
Erika Lynne
"This book will never leave you."
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"Usually, a work by Stephen King grips me and refuses to let go- sadly, I can't say the same for this one. His usual schtick of using the gruesome for shock value is ever present, as if his strange obsession with pre-teens and sexuality, and his ever-brimming need to drop slurs just for the fun of it; But even all of these things put aside I could easily argue that this book is a hundred pages too long. The most interesting piece of the story being told is the twisted mental chess game between this wannabe Nazi child and the pathetic ex-Nazi soldier who's teetering ever close to his natural expiration date. The most fun thing is waiting for the other shoe to drop, watching two snakes bite one another, and waiting to see which dies first. But that sputters out a little over halfway, leaving a meandering story of unlikeable characters that pathetically putters out while you slowly lose interest in what you're reading. It drags from the start and crawls to the end and even the most exciting pieces are easily drowned out by how much drudgery is written in the rest."
Nico Hamilton
