Monday, January 23, 2012

Full Dark No Stars

Stephen King is back to who he was before he started writing just to make money. Okay not a totally fair assessment but for awhile he lost me and it felt like he was writing a bunch of  junk that was a neat idea for the back of the book and then had maybe a 50 page story that his editor convinced him to turn into a 500 page book.

This is the macabre and dark writing that just mystifies me. It is the reality that you know can and does exist in very normal people. It is the reality turned on its side ever so gently and then wham you start looking at people a bit differently.

He explains where it came from and how it got to where it ended.

A quick read similar to his short stories from the early writings and he even writes that they remind him of his very early writings such as The Long Walk.

It was a happy read.

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