Apt Pupil: A Novella in Different Seasons

from PortM

Revisited this story in audiobook form after many, many years. It was rather a different experience, more frightening, than the first time I read it in my late teens. Maybe the teenager me was more comfortable with the idea of the boy's monstrous transformation. Or it may simply be that it feels ...

from over.the.edge

Apt Pupil by Stephen King 1982 Warner 4.0 / 5.0 Apt Pupil is the story of Todd Bowden, an all-American golden boy- good grades, considered brilliant- befriends a neighbor, Kurt Dussander, a Nazi was criminal in hiding. As Dussander shares his past, Todd decides he has more to gain by not turning ...

from tnociti

Eh - Not even close to a favorite Stephen King.

from buffalogr

Todd Bowden is more than just an apt pupil in school. He becomes an apt pupil in the art of evil and murder. Kurt Dussander, lives nearby and feeeds his own psychopathic tendencies, learning from Dussander. The book did no have me on the tip of my chair.

from PghDragonMan

This is a double masterpiece: Frank Mueller's voice talent only helps to highlight this psychological thriller from the mind of Stephen King. The movie does not do this story justice. While a lot of people wrongfully equate King's writing with the Slice 'n' Dice Horror genre, this in an intense t...