[Epona]

You know, I have STILL never managed to get into the gunslinger ones. No patience I suppose.
I agree with you about King's recent offerings though, some were not really up to scratch. I liked Dreamcatcher, but before that the best he had churned out for a while was Insomnia - I thought there was some real tenderness in that story between the main characters.

Now I am trying to wade my way through Black House - co-written with Peter Straub as a sequel to The Talisman. Now I loved the Talisman, but I cannot get into this one at all - it is written from the point of view of a 2nd person observer in present tense - "you walk towards the man standing on the street corner, and as you near him..." blah blah blah. This makes it VERY difficult to feel any kind of empathy with the characters at any level, because it puts you as a bystander - in the story, but somehow separated from it - rather than a part of it or an observer which could be achieved by 1st or 3rd person narration. Very Odd, and doesn't work IMHO.

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