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Wth is up with all the Apple and Amazon product placement? Are all new King books like this?

Edward Abbey: “Damn tourists don’t respect nature and leave their trash everywhere! Hate them.”

Also Edward Abbey: “Hey let’s throw an old tire into the Grand Canyon lol.”

“At some point in the 2030’s we will reach [the brain/computer interface] using microscopic devices called nanobots. These tiny electronic devices will connect the top layer of our neocortex to the cloud, allowing our neurons to communicate directly with simulated neurons hosted online. We’ll be able to send nanobots into the brain noninvasively through the capillaries.”

WHAT THE FUCK????

I’m thinking this will not end happily.

This is hands down the worst Stephen King book I’ve read.

Her brother is such a piece of shit.

I’m convinced every book written in the ‘60’s is just about sex and drugs.

DNF- After 4 months I’m only a third of the way through and every time I pick it up I immediately want to put it back down. He has an interesting thesis statement but then spends every chapter describing mundane observations about his own life which I could care less about. You could argue that the writing is meditative but I found it obnoxious. Also suffers from the “big words = good writing” delusion.