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Review title: We enjoy your books! Particularly the early, scary ones.
Product review: Woody Allen had a great true moment of self-criticism in his film "Stardust Memories" (1980) where he comes upon a couple of aliens who tell him:"We enjoy your films! Particularly the early, funny ones."The same is with Stephen King who got lost in himself somewhere in the early 1990s.Lisey's Story is neither Christine nor The Shining. It's neither Pet Sematary nor Salem's Lot. Bluntly, it's more like a lot of blah blah blah tucked into 600 pages. Sometimes, you may get the creepy feeling that King let his comupter do most of the job by itself.It won't hurt King to take a long break, relax and search for the roots of good writing. I think he can afford that.
