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Nov 12, 2018DPL_Graham rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Stephen King is truly an American master of fiction as show by this short novel. When we think of King we often think of giant novels full of human details with a slow build towards horror. His last novel, “The Outsider,” was a masterpiece of normal America spun slowly into the paranormal. Horror seeped into every cracks over 450+ pages. This time King’s literary talents are on full display in a mini-sized book with large print that barely gets to 150 pages. Once again we are back in Castle Rock which means something weird is going to happen to yet another resident of this beautiful Maine town full of leaf-peepers. Scott Carey is divorced and alone in his too big home where he works on web development. The biggest problem in his life besides the dogs pooping on his lawn and the married lesbian couple who won’t be friend with him is the small issue of his rapidly dropping weight. Weight that keeps shedding no matter what he does or how much he eats. Is it cancer? This book doesn’t have the horror of King’s usual writing but has plenty of the paranormal. His relationships are both interesting and heartwarming. You can read this book in a few short hours and at the end look up at the sky and down at the scale and smile. It’s all going to be OK.