The Colorado Kid vs What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Which Should You Read?

The Colorado Kid Stephen King · 1978 ★★★☆☆ 3.4 184 pages · ≈ 3 h 24 m · Moderate

“After deciding he would get nothing of interest from the two old men who comprised the entire staff of The Weekly Islander, the feature writer from the Boston Globe took a look at his watch, remarked that he could just make the one-thirty ferry back to the mainland if he hurried, thanked them for their time, dropped some money on the tablecloth, weighted it down with the salt shaker so the stiffis”

The Colorado Kid is a mystery novel by American writer Stephen King, published by the Hard Case Crime imprint in 2005. The book was initially issued in one paperback-only edition by the specialty crime and mystery…

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver · 1981 ★★★★☆ 4.0 159 pages · ≈ 2 h 57 m · Moderate

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, people too unimaginative to even give up. Carver celebrates these men and…