Book #31 of 2016: The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub (The Talisman #1) I’m normally a sucker for stories about parallel universes, but the mechanics of the magic (particularly the world-hopping) in this one were so unclear that it was a pretty frustrating reading experience. I do like that there was plenty of …
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Book #24 of 2016: Pet Sematary by Stephen King Pet Sematary is probably the quintessential example of a Stephen King novel with a great, moody build-up throughout the book and then a letdown of an ending. This makes sense, in a way: Pet Sematary is a loose retelling of the short story The Monkey’s Paw, …
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Book #16 of 2016: The Dark Half by Stephen King Like much of Stephen King’s mid-career output, this horror thriller was just okay. I could see the novel having special significance for the writer himself, since it’s about an author forced to go public about his pseudonym (which then comes to life and starts murdering …
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Book #30 of 2015: The Colorado Kid by Stephen King This short book reminds me somewhat of the author’s earlier From a Buick 8 with its lack of resolution at the end, but I think that aspect is handled a lot better here. Although we don’t really get any answers about the cold case of …
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