![]() With the interest in life, they have also lost the gift of lying.Īnd that suits Jamie's single mother, a New York literary agent.īecause of all things the gold donkey of her agency, a cranky guy who writes a super successful, albeit super stupid fantasy saga, blesses the temporal over the all-explanatory closing volume. The arm, it turns out, has just suffered a fatal stroke. In the hall he meets the old Burkett couple, but only he sees Mrs. The beginning, as always, is pure promise. ![]() His new one is programmatically called “Later”. It is therefore all the more interesting when King writes an entire novel about conclusions. "Stuffed Animal Cemetery," for example, is only great as long as King doesn't borrow an evil spirit from America's native peoples to explain everything in some way. In part, however, King's notorious final weakness simply has to do with King: He tends to get frayed and get lost in questionable explanations. This is partly in the nature of the horror novel: Many monsters lose their charm when you first look under the bed. ![]() When it comes to conclusions, things are different.īringing a story to an end is not King's discipline. Jack Torrance's interview in "Shining" or the drifting paper boat in "Es" are almost perfect beginnings of the novel. It's never better than the first fifty pages. ![]() Stephen King is not only the King of Horror, he is also a Prince of Promise. ![]()
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