Almost everything he has ever written has been optioned or adapted for the screen, in some cases several times. King has regularly published two or three books per year, a stream of words that flows incessantly west towards Hollywood. He arrived during a resurgent interest in all things frightening–following the success of Ira Levin's Rosemary’s Baby (1967) and William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist (1971)-and quickly set about reshaping the genre in his own image. Since the publication of his first novel Carrie, just shy of fifty years ago, King has held dominion over the landscape of horror. Not using the internet, that’s a bridge too far.There will probably never be another author like Stephen King. I believe if a modern kid really had the ability to see and talk to dead people, no matter how ordinary it might be for him, he would still try to network and find others with the ability. Part of it what bothers me about this is knowing just how connected we are with our smart phones. I get that, but still, no curiosity whatsoever kind of took me out of it. Like starting a conversation with ‘Hey, do you see dead people?’” “It isn’t exactly the kind of thing you talk about. Later in the book Liz even asks him how many others have this ability. Jamie never showed even an ounce of curiosity if there were other people out there with the same ability. But I kept asking myself, why doesn’t he Google it? Even just once, just to see. Oh, sure, they doubted him at first, and their reactions were mostly believable. I really do.īut it bothered me just how easily Jamie and his mom and her girlfriend took it for granted. He even says so early in the book, “You get used to marvelous things,” Jamie writes, and that, “There’s too much wonder, that’s all. One thing I realized was that King’s take on it was to say that the extraordinary can become quite ordinary given enough time.
This is a review of his concept and execution, not necessarily a critique of the story itself. Stephen King’s latest book is a hard boiled crime thriller featuring a young boy who can see dead people, though as he says, it’s not like in that Bruce Willis movie.
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