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Review title: Irritatingly overwritten
Product review: Many reviewers have already expressed their dislike of the "private language" used by Lisey and her late husband, but few have mentioned King's tendency to blabber on at great length about something that could have been handled with many fewer words. His writing in this book is the opposite of economical. Extravagant? Seems too polite a term for his running on at the mouth.As irritating at the "private language" is the way King has Lisey run through lists of worn-out cliches, followed by "As the saying goes." He piles on several cliches about dying (kicking the bucket, buying the farm, cashing your checks, etc.) as well as vomiting (tossing cookies, etc.)and lots of other examples. To what end? To place such cliches in the mouth (or mind) of a character is no excuse for bloating your novel with them.When he's good (as in his short stories for The New Yorker magazine, and some novels), he's very good. When he's bad, he's terrible. This book is one of the terrible ones.
