Title: Ex-ceptionally boring
Product review: Too bad. I started reading this book expecting to have the intriguing and intellectual experience of "The Name of the Rose"...and was so terribly disappointed. King is certainly knowledgeable, but that knowledge creates a jumble of a book. One gets the feeling that King would rather try to impress us by the breath of his knowledge, rather than the depth and more so, rather than give us a story that holds our interest. Just sound and fury signifying nothing. His characters are poorly developed stick figures, and by the time I was 3/4 of the way through, I really found I no longer cared about the mystery at the heart of it. How boring was it? I didn't even care enough to read the last pages to find out what all the fuss was about.
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