Title: Painful...aaaaaarrggghhhh.....
Product review: Junk. I'm a big fan of king (the 'k' is small when the work is this poor.) and this is underdeveloped, predictable, unresolved, rehashed, overdone, verbose and painful reading. king in his comments remarks that this work was difficult to write and forced by the request of correspondence. Quite obviously. king delivers on none of the meager promises made by the tale. He's done most of it before (see The Stand, Dragon's Tears, earlier Dark Tower). What he hasn't done, others have (see Lord of the Rings, Tower of Geburah, on and on...) And the 'Wizard of Oz' junket has been done often and with more style (see Heinlein, and others). Good god amighty, steve. Write what you want, not what others ask, and ask for a well read and unintimidated editor. And the rest of you reviewers, if you liked this, try Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, et al and be blown away.
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