 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another Stephen King book review today. We are talking about hearts in Atlantis This is a great book right off the bat if you're sitting there wondering hasn't he already reviewed this? No, I have not I have a written review on Goodreads, but I've never done a video Review of it. What you're probably thinking about is my series Thursday theorist Where I connect all of Stephen King's books to the Dark Tower and the Stephen King universe in general This one has a film adaptation of only the first Novella, I guess you'd call it we're gonna talk about that in just a second how this book is structured It's with Anthony Hopkins I can't remember any of the other actors and I liked it all right But it's not one of the more memorable ones at least not for me And they had to change so much about it because it ties into the Dark Tower So so drastically it's still a good. It's still a good movie I would probably give it three three and a half stars Anthony Hopkins is of course as great as he usually is but back to the book There is some discussion about whether or not this book is a collection of stories Or if it is a mosaic novel I am on the side of mosaic novel because there is that for one simple reason This is the only Stephen King collection Without a table of contents In fact because of that I have problems remembering the titles of each and every story So if I'm glancing at the book, I apologize But the the first novella in fact Wikipedia says that it is a Collection of two novellas and three short stories I think they get progressively shorter over time if I remember correctly the last time I read this was in audiobook format, so I Still not a hundred percent sure on you know what stories are what lengths But the first one low men in yellow coats. I hope I'm getting that right If you're a Dark Tower fan, you already recognize the low men But the first novella is about Ted Brodigan who pops up a lot in the later Dark Tower books Well, not a lot, but he pops up. He has a pretty significant role in I believe it's the final one I don't want to get into spoiler territory, but I think that's spoiler enough just saying that he pops up in the series It's very interesting how King worked him in but the story pretty much revolves around Bobby Garfield who is a little boy at the time that he meets Ted and this is a recurring theme or scenario in Stephen King's books where a young person will meet a older person and Someone is basically grandfather grandmother age and be and comes to friend them. You have mr. Harrigan's phone. You have apt pupil You there's so many like this and I'm wondering who that person was for King When he was growing up I've don't think I've ever heard him talk about it So if you guys can share any interviews or anything where he might talk about it It just seems odd that it's such a recurring thing for him to have not had An an older figure in his life Him also growing up without his father, you know Who who was that person that he latched on to that was an older adult when he was a young boy Was there one at all? I don't know The rest of the story revolves around the I believe the before during and after of the Vietnam War And it's a mosaic novel in the sense that each and every story is from a different main character's point of view But it also includes the main character from the previous stories My favorite story in here is the first one. That's probably why I remember it so well The other ones are let's see here. You got hearts in Atlantis is a second one I remember that it's not even mentioned in in this one, but it's a group it revolves around a group of college kids playing hearts In college that one. I don't I don't remember a whole much a whole lot about that one It's and in fact the rest of the story is pretty forgettable for me I went back and read my review on Goodreads and that would probably the complete opposite of what I'm saying now But the one that really sticks with me is the opening one And that's probably because I've done so much reading and research into the Dark Tower series that I'm more Fascinated with the Ted Brodigan character than I am anything else I'm not gonna go through the other stories because like I said I don't have that great of a memory of them, but I do Recommend this book if for nothing else for the opening novella King really shines when he's writing about young people and older people Right right there in the middle. He has some great middle-aged characters But I think where he he really shows off his talents is when he's writing about well young Young people of a certain era kind of deal new newer Kids he he does struggle with sometimes. I think it's because he doesn't have too many People around him that are that age and if your only view of the world The world of young Adults is something like Twitter or the internet then you're just not seeing all of it And I think that's part of where some of the awkwardness And the cliched young characters for nowadays comes from I don't know I could be way off the mark But I know there was a lot of talk about how the kids in the Institute Didn't act like kids. I thought they did they they were all hyper-intelligent children and smart kids tend to talk like that and smart kids tend to be very cringy and awkward and Not very or too self-aware. Maybe is that and they they realized their faults But yeah, so that's that's my two cents on King writing kids But this one I do remember there's I believe there's one of the stories revolves around a vet who's homeless now this could be bandela effect I don't know and it of course wasn't in the movie because they only did the first The first one the first novella But I remember enjoying that one I really do need to reread this book and give it a proper review But if you're looking for more of an in-depth review, I'll leave a link down to my Goodreads review down there in the doobly-doo But I'm giving this one off the top of my head four stars Simply because of the first novella and my question for you today is how do you look at this collection? Do you look at it as a collection or do you look at it as an as a novel as a mosaic novel? Like I said, I have I'm on the side of the fence that it is a mosaic novel But I'd love to hear from you guys Also, whether or not you like the book leave all that down there in the doobly-doo, but until next time I have any you've been you this has been another Stephen King review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye