At one a.m. (also known as The Hour Of Truth)...

Apr 03, 2008 01:05

I can admit it.
Two-thirds of the way through Stephen King's new novel, Duma Key, and...I don't like it.
It's long. The story arc is trying my patience. The overdone emphasis on certain bits of symbolism is trying my patience. The under-drawn characters are trying my patience.
It's feeling like a whole lot of wind. You know, that whole sorta sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing type thing. Yeah.
Oh, and it's long.
I have become so very spoiled.

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