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Soooo...this book is terrible. If I hadn't spent like $40 bucks on my hardcover copy years ago I would have DNF'd by now. There is a villain in here named "Mr. Ha-Ha", which really tells you all you need to know.
— Jun 11, 2026 07:30AM
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This one is pretty boring so far and a classic example of the extra bloat in King's novels: 120 pages so far of a teenager just taking care of an injured elderly man. Giving him his pills, helping him into bed, feeding his dog. Many of these things repeated multiple times. Why does this need to be there? It simply doesn't. Also King calling the internet "the Net" dates him considerably and makes me cringe slightly.
— Jun 06, 2026 09:27PM
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Jun 11, 2026 07:39AM
I remember it being kind of bad, so I don't know why I gave it 4 stars. Maybe becuse I was proud I managed to read it all. (I also got the expensive hardcover lol)
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monica wrote: "I remember it being kind of bad, so I don't know why I gave it 4 stars. Maybe becuse I was proud I managed to read it all. (I also got the expensive hardcover lol)"Hey Monica, I can't explain your four-star rating for this one either, lol. If you managed to read it all, you deserve the full five stars, not just four. I'm almost done, fifteen or so pages left, and will make it as well, but my god was this one a chore and such a slog to get through. SK is becoming like James Patterson; his writing gets worse every year that goes by, but he keeps on writing anyway. Unfortunately, SK and his publishers know that anything he writes will sell a million copies and end up on the NYT Bestseller list, so they keep publishing them. Oh well. Leaves me longing for the days of Cocaine King from the long past, when he used to be good.
I've often wondered if most of his newer work is ghost written by other people? This is a theory I've heard floating around. I have only ever attempted to read The Shining, so I'm not sure.
