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This morning I finished Lisey's Story, a book from Stephen King written about fifteen years ago or so. For some reason I'd not read this one, maybe it came out during my hey-days with Everquest and I just missed it. Recently I'd seen that there was going to be a telly version of this book produced, so I thought I would grab the book and check it out.
For a King book, it's pretty good yet rather different. You've lots of exposition, which isn't novel for King at all, and tons of dialogue, both spoken and thought. Of course you've a villain and supernatural elements, this is a King tale afterall, though first and foremost this is a love tale. There is violence, and some nods to established King locations/people/events, which all serve to enhance this story. I'm not going to spoil anything here, I'll just say if you've enjoyed other King books in the past, you'll likely have a good time with this one. And I'll be checking out the telly show at some point simply because the cast sounds excellent, and since it appears that King himself wrote the scripts, it might translate rather well.
Next up for me is Death Without Company, book two of the Longmire mysteries.
For a King book, it's pretty good yet rather different. You've lots of exposition, which isn't novel for King at all, and tons of dialogue, both spoken and thought. Of course you've a villain and supernatural elements, this is a King tale afterall, though first and foremost this is a love tale. There is violence, and some nods to established King locations/people/events, which all serve to enhance this story. I'm not going to spoil anything here, I'll just say if you've enjoyed other King books in the past, you'll likely have a good time with this one. And I'll be checking out the telly show at some point simply because the cast sounds excellent, and since it appears that King himself wrote the scripts, it might translate rather well.
Next up for me is Death Without Company, book two of the Longmire mysteries.