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Review title: Whose Story is this?
Product review: The title of the novel "Lisey's Story" is a misnomer. This is a tortured rendering of King's own nightmarish fantasies (not his first). The novel primarily is the recollection of the horrible childhood of Lisey's husband, the rest is padding. Lisey is just the sounding board. Mr. King once again is trying to scare the reader. At one point, the author uses an actual news story of "Ralph -- a lost dog's amazing return home", to justify the fiction writer's prerogative to invent just about anything. So, Mr. King mixes fantasy and reality, but not very successfully. The novel is much too long and repetitious. It was a chore to get through it.
