Then, in the late 80s, I started to lose interest. On publication, I bought and devoured every book and short story collection. Over the next couple of years I read almost everything King-related. I read King's Pet Sematary on publication in 1983 in one sitting and was hooked. Just like how we all feel about 2020 is the exact same way I feel about this book: I wish to forget about and I wish i never came across this novel in the first place. Other than vomiting (which happens to the best of us on a messy night out), the characters seem to be steel proof that are void of complex emotion and strong story-driven dialogue. No trauma is present when kids and adults see flying torsos and dead zombies holding their guts, trying to claw their faces off. The only emotion this book gives characters is when they say farewell to one another and when King passes off their horror and disgust with simple confusion. The characters are forgettable and lack any sort of qualities you'd expect in a zombie apocalypse book (characters that bond share or antagonise one another because they have no choice in order to survive). It leads up to a very confused, unfulfilling and frustrating ending with absolutely no resolution and out of the blue, 1 in a million even happening. Plot falls next to wool-gathering prose whereby nothing actually happens. And I have to be honest, I'm very disappointed that this was the first novel by King I have been introduced to and here's why. I'm not well versed in apocalyptic fiction, having read only a few. I hadn't, despite owning this and Mr Mercedes for many years now. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īs a bookworm, Lit graduate and an English teacher, I ought to have read a King novel by now. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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