#123 in Horror
Hearts in Atlantis
- 598
- Pages
- about 11 h
- Reading time
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Our view
The opening novella is the best of “Hearts in Atlantis”, a moving tale whose characters stay with the reader; the pieces that follow are weaker. Stephen King joins the five stories through recurring characters, in roughly chronological order. Some readers find the whole untidy, though it comes together by the end. The book also connects to “The Dark Tower”, a link that strikes some as clumsy.
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About the book
Hearts in Atlantis (1999) is a collection of three novellas and two short stories by Stephen King, all connected to one another by recurring characters and taking place in roughly chronological order. The stories are loosely autobiographical; in an author's note, King writes that while the places in the book are fictionalized, "Although it is difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional; they actually happened."
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 282 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 66% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Horror average of 7.5. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.7 | 35 | 12% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 247 | 88% |
Frequently asked
How long is Hearts in Atlantis?
It has 598 pages — longer than 84% of the ranked books in Horror.
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