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Recommend me a Stephen King book

kraggy · 2012-02-10 12:02:57

Hey guys, Need a book that will get me back into reading and also, in all my life have never read a King book so want to address those two issues. So, what will surely grab me and also, are King books as vague and meandering as a David Lynch film or is there a point to them? Cause I hate when there's no point or conclusive…

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#62 07-03-2012 9:13pm
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Currently reading 11/22/63 probably one of his best books

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#63 08-03-2012 3:04pm
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Just finished it last night. I thought it was OK, but it felt very bloated. For an author who can sometimes struggle with endings, I think he did an OK job though.

A few things that annoyed me a little:
We get it - "the past is obdurate". Stop telling us please.

The ending from where he meets the new "yellow card man" and then goes back to the future felt very rushed, and perhaps could have been a bigger part of the story. Even if it felt like one of the Back To The Future films. God knows there was enough bumpf elsewhere that could have been trimmed down to make some room.

I think maybe it suffered from not really having a strong villain character.

I don't felt it added a huge amount to the "what if you could go back in time and kill Hitler" idea.

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